We're going offline as we compile our 2008 year-end Streetsblog awards. If you'd like to nominate someone or something for a coveted Streesie, submit your idea here in the comments section. It's not too late. Here are last year's Streetsie winners to jog your memory.
From all of us at Streetsblog and the Livable Streets Network, have a nice break and good luck getting out of town if you're flying. We wish you a transit-oriented economic recovery in 2009.
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Streetsblog's singers are back, belting out their parody classics to make a serious point: New York's roadways don't have to be dangerous places for kids and lungs, but can be joyous spaces for people to walk around, shop, eat or just ... hang out.
At its final full meeting, the Council is poised to deliver protections to delivery workers.
The city recorded a 5-percent increase in serious injuries in the most-recent quarter, though overall injuries are down.
A coalition of greenspace-loving groups is demanding that Zohran Mamdani make good on his promise to raise the Parks Department's budget. Plus other news.
The city has yet to appeal the nearly two-week-old ruling — but a new mayor says he'll change that pronto.
People now calling for a ban on e-bikes seem to forget what the park was like before cars were banned. It was way worse.
