Eve Kessler
Email Eve Kessler at eve@streetsblog.org
Recent Posts
Upper West Side Community Board Tries To Muzzle Street-Safety Activists
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Revenge is a dish best served ... by changing the rules.
Thursday’s Headlines: Rally for the (Camera) Tally Edition
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You, too, can advocate for speed cameras. Plus other news.
Cops Are Hogging Public Space in Poor Communities for Parking They Don’t Need: Report
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The East New York Community Land Trust identifies 73 underused lots that it says could be developed into housing or commercial space.
Friday’s Headlines: Bike to City Hall Day
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Our favorite pols take to two wheels. Plus, other news.
Broad Coalition Demands Mayor Adams Properly Manage New York’s Busiest Places: The Curb
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It's a popular front against "chaos at the curb."
Urban Design Forum Envisions Street-Based ‘Platform’ for a ‘Thriving City’
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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.
New App Helps Reckless Drivers Thumb Their Noses at City’s Speed Cameras
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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.
Two Scooter Companies Claim They Have the Tech to Stop Sidewalk Parking
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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.
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s Why Mayor Adams is Pinning Hopes on Business Improvement Districts
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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.
Advocates: The City’s ‘Clean Curbs’ Pilot is Too Small
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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.
'We Need New Station Houses Because of NYPD's Illegal Parking,' Communities Say
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The antidote to illegal cop parking? Why, more parking, of course, say many community boards.
THUNDER ROAD: Car Noise Stokes Heart Attacks, Study Finds
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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.