Eve Kessler

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Above, a private carting truck that lacks protective side rails. The city's historical deal on commercial waste zones will mandate the rails — if it ever gets off the ground. Photo: Facebook

TRASH TALK: Advocates Warn Against Further Delays on Commercial Waste Zones

By Eve Kessler | May 2, 2022 | No Comments

They don't trust them as far as they can throw them.

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Why Can’t We Have Nice Things? Denver Offering Rebates on E-Bike Purchases

By Eve Kessler | Apr 30, 2022 | No Comments

Colorado is high ... on getting e-bikes into the hands of drivers. Meanwhile, New York only subsidizes electric cars.

A plaza in Queens. Photo: Design Trust for Public Space

Design Trust Releases Public Space Management ‘Toolkit’

By Eve Kessler | Apr 29, 2022 | No Comments

Group seeks to smooth way for small-fry community and business organizations in 'placemaking' efforts.

An example of the new MTA electric buses. Photo: Governor's Office

MTA To Add 60 Electric Buses by Year’s End (That’s 1% of the Entire Fleet)

By Eve Kessler | Apr 22, 2022 | No Comments

In the latest advance of a slow rollout, the new vehicles will be deployed to communities with high asthma rates.

Some of our "favorite" photos of trash on the sidewalks. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Thursday’s Headlines: Trash Talk Edition

By Eve Kessler | Apr 21, 2022 | No Comments

Garbage, garbage everywhere — but we can hope for more bins. Plus other news.

Mayor Adams pointed to the new trash enclosures installed by the Times Square Alliance under the Clean Curbs program at press conference on Wednesday. Photo: Mayor's Office

City Will Extend Tiny Clean Curbs Program to All Boroughs

By Eve Kessler | Apr 21, 2022 | No Comments

A pilot program to get trash bags off sidewalks will move beyond Manhattan — first, to Brooklyn. But can it do enough fast enough to curtail 'NY's 5 o'clock shadow'?

Side-by-side, before-and-after renderings show what a trash enclosure will look like at 41st Street and Seventh Avenue. The Times Square Alliance is set to install such an enclosure there and in the street at 43rd and Eight Avenue on April 18. Images: CITIBIN

Times Square Business Group Pilots Street Trash Enclosures

By Eve Kessler | Apr 19, 2022 | No Comments

The "Clean Curbs" program arrives as the Times Square Alliance looks to rid sidewalks of leaky, smelly garbage bags at the Crossroads of the the World.

Thursdays Headlines: ‘We Got Him!’ Edition

By Eve Kessler | Apr 14, 2022 | No Comments

One good collar doesn't mean we need more cops in the subway. Plus other news.

Welcome to New York, where pedestrians walk amid leaking, stinking garbage bags.

Got Commercial Trash? The Sanitation Department Has $20K for Your Project

By Eve Kessler | Apr 11, 2022 | No Comments

The city will spend an almost infinitesimal amount of money on a problem with monumental repercussions.

Open Plans's Sara Lind (in pink) with colleagues (from left) Jackson Chabot, Lisa Orman and Carl Mahaney. Photo: File

Thursday’s Headlines: Home News Edition

By Eve Kessler | Apr 7, 2022 | No Comments

Open Plans's policy director gets a well-deserved honor. Plus how to get to Yankee Stadium by bike!

Riverdale Avenue is so fat it needs to be put on a diet, says DOT. Photo: Google and Streetsblog's Photoshop Team

Riverdale Rumble: Bronx Panel Rejects DOT Road Diet Plan for Super-Wide Avenue

By Eve Kessler | Apr 1, 2022 | No Comments

The majority on the Traffic and Transportation Committee of Bronx Community Board 8 objected to the DOT's proposed .75-mile-long "road diet," which would provide a treatment similar to the one it successfully installed across the Bronx on Morris Park Avenue.

Take Amtrak if you're going to interview Secretary Pete, thanks!

Friday’s Headlines: ‘Mr. Barkan Goes to Washington’ Edition

By Eve Kessler | Apr 1, 2022 | No Comments

A noted writer (and putative urbanist) takes a pass on taking Amtrak to D.C. Plus other real news on April Fool's Day.

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