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Eve Kessler

Email Eve Kessler at eve@streetsblog.org

Recent Posts

A pro-car Upper West Side resident rises to defend his entitlement at the CB7 Transportation Committee Meeting in 2019. Some CB7 members are sorry that the body passed a resolution asking the city to consider curb uses other than parking. Photo: Eve Kessler

Upper West Side Community Board Tries To Muzzle Street-Safety Activists

By Eve Kessler | May 27, 2022 | No Comments
Revenge is a dish best served ... by changing the rules.
A speed camera. Photo: File

Thursday’s Headlines: Rally for the (Camera) Tally Edition

By Eve Kessler | May 26, 2022 | No Comments
You, too, can advocate for speed cameras. Plus other news.
ENYCLT members demonstrate for housing over parking. Photo: ENYCLT

Cops Are Hogging Public Space in Poor Communities for Parking They Don’t Need: Report

By Eve Kessler | May 21, 2022 | No Comments
The East New York Community Land Trust identifies 73 underused lots that it says could be developed into housing or commercial space.
Because they're happy: Brooklyn Beep Reynoso, Comptroller Lander, and Council members Restler, Hudson, Won, Hanif, Gutierrez and Marte and friends pose with a bike in City Hall Park. Photo: Via Twitter

Friday’s Headlines: Bike to City Hall Day

By Eve Kessler | May 20, 2022 | No Comments
Our favorite pols take to two wheels. Plus, other news.
Scofflaw trucks like these are costing us big-time. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Broad Coalition Demands Mayor Adams Properly Manage New York’s Busiest Places: The Curb

By Eve Kessler | May 19, 2022 | No Comments
It's a popular front against "chaos at the curb."
An illustration from "Streets Ahead." Image: Urban Design Forum

Urban Design Forum Envisions Street-Based ‘Platform’ for a ‘Thriving City’

By Eve Kessler | May 18, 2022 | No Comments
The group's new report, "Streets Ahead," articulates goals that won't be controversial for Streetsblog readers, but may sound new to New Yorkers who think of streets only as repositories for free car storage.
Motorists are seeking ingenious ways to defeat speed cameras such as this one. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

New App Helps Reckless Drivers Thumb Their Noses at City’s Speed Cameras

By Eve Kessler | May 13, 2022 | No Comments
Even as Albany lawmakers slow-walk the renewal of New York's speed camera system, a new cellphone app is helping reckless drivers avoid the devices entirely.
Bird e-scooters, pictured during a product demonstration in Queens. Photo: Bird/Dennis A. Clark

Two Scooter Companies Claim They Have the Tech to Stop Sidewalk Parking

By Eve Kessler | May 11, 2022 | No Comments
Two e-scooter-share companies, Bird and Lime, unveiled new tech for combatting the single-biggest complaint about scooters: riders who leave them all over the sidewalk.
The Eataly kiosk at the Flatiron public plaza — an example of pedestrianization at a business improvement district. Photo: Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s Why Mayor Adams is Pinning Hopes on Business Improvement Districts

By Eve Kessler | May 11, 2022 | No Comments
Even as the city's businesses reeled during the pandemic, the city's business improvement districts provided nearly the same level of sanitation and other supplemental services — which may be why the Adams administration is hoping BIDs will be the engine to pull the city out of the doldrums.
What pedestrians must wade through many nights. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Advocates: The City’s ‘Clean Curbs’ Pilot is Too Small

By Eve Kessler | May 10, 2022 | No Comments
The limited scale of Clean Curbs — basically, the piloting of off-the-shelf storage sheds for bags — hampers the city's goals because it does not require the total rethinking of garbage-collection methods, which is what the city ultimately needs.
parking montage with broken badge

'We Need New Station Houses Because of NYPD's Illegal Parking,' Communities Say

By Eve Kessler | May 4, 2022 | No Comments
The antidote to illegal cop parking? Why, more parking, of course, say many community boards.
Holland Tunnel traffic inbound from New Jersey. The noise from such traffic can give you a heart attack, a study finds. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

THUNDER ROAD: Car Noise Stokes Heart Attacks, Study Finds

By Eve Kessler | May 3, 2022 | No Comments
Researchers in New Jersey link traffic racket to cardiovascular disease and cardiac episodes, proving again that it's death, not redemption, that's beneath a dirty hood.
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