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Meet the NIMBY’s Toxic Cousin: the NOMS (Not On My Street)
Are neighborhood "car supremacists" taking over our community meetings — and what do we do about it?
May 18, 2026
NIMBY-Mania: Middle Village Has a Love-Hate Relationship with the IBX
The idea of making it easier to reach Middle Village clearly put some Middle Villagers on edge.
November 23, 2025
‘A NIMBY City Hall’: Adams Appointees Thwart Key Bike and Bus Projects
As the city seeks to redesign its streets to better serve transit riders, pedestrians and cyclists, interference is emerging from an unlikely place: City Hall itself. And one division of City Hall in particular.
October 17, 2022
KOMANOFF: Blame the NIMBYs And Exxon
We can't deem fossil fuel villains solely responsible for the climate crisis if unelected NIMBY’s are able to delay, water down or block seemingly every path to cut carbon emissions.
October 28, 2020
DOT Scrubs Flushing Busway Forum Amid Pushback from NIMBYs
The DOT quietly — and infuriatingly — canceled a “town hall” forum to promote its long-overdue “busway” plan for Main Street in Flushing after the neighborhood’s council member criticized the plan with a racially inflammatory remark.
August 2, 2020
Court Swats Away NIMBY Anti-Bike-Path Claim on East Side
A bike bridge isn't a seizure of parkland — it IS parkland, the court essentially said.
May 11, 2020
Streetsies 2019: The NIMBYs Who Should Move to the Suburbs Already
A rogues gallery of dunderheads tried to impede the movement to make our streets safe. Here are the lowlights.
December 31, 2019
UPDATE: Judge in Queens NIMBY Suit Declines to Demand City Halt Ridgewood Bus Lane
Plaintiffs argue that businesses are suffering and side streets are choked with cars. But the city wants to speed buses to help tens of thousands of long-suffering riders.
September 18, 2019
LEGAL EASE: How NIMBYs Use ‘Environmental Review’ to Stop Green Projects
The CPW and 14th lawsuits aim to vex, trouble, and delay traffic improvements. How we can stop them?
August 16, 2019
UPDATED: Upper West Side NIMBYs Sue City Over Central Park West Bike Lane
But their reading of the law, called Article 78, is absurd, experts said.
July 30, 2019