As promised, our editor went on Arthur Schwartz's show on WBAI radio on Monday night and, objectively speaking, got the better of the Greenwich Village car owner and anti-14th-St-Busway agitator. But you don't have to believe us. Click here to listen to the stirring half-hour broadcast. (OK, so it's not War on Cars, but it's a good segment.)
And now, the news:
- The Landmarks Preservation Commission and other groups say they will sue to block the city from implementing its plan for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway reconstruction. Gov. Cuomo, it's your move. (NY Post)
- Great tabloid minds think alike? Hours after Streetsblog posted a story about how much carnage occurred on New York City streets in January, the New York Post followed with its own version. (Fun fact: Danielle Furfaro's article oddly quoted Assembly Member William Colton, who is certainly no livable streets leader.)
- Two lovebirds have made it their mission to promote subway etiquette. (amNY)
- The Times got overly alarmist on a slight uptick in subway crime, which is a tiny fraction of what it was during the bad old days. But even low crime is too much on the governor's transit system, so you know who to call.
- And finally, considering that the federal government once rounded up and gassed all of the geese in Prospect Park, it was odd to see that a lone goose delayed subway service in Brooklyn for hours. Kudos to Natalie O'Neill's goose-pun-filled rewrite job in the NY Post, though like O'Neill, Gothamist also failed to mention the 2010 goose-icide so breathlessly covered by the once-great Brooklyn Paper. On the plus side (at least for geese), the city is considering a ban on foie-gras. (Gothamist)
