Julianne Cuba
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Recent Posts
Is The Solution to Deadly Lithium-Ion Battery Fires a Trade-In Program?
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Advocates and experts are calling for a "battery buy-back" program modeled on successful efforts to reduce guns.
A Presidents’ Day Interview with Brooklyn Borough Prez Antonio Reynoso
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This president wants a completion of Brooklyn’s waterfront greenway and ensuring that the city better tackles road violence through improved street design and new laws.
Pols and Advocates Demand City Crack Down on Last-Mile Facilities
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Pols and advocates seeking to rein in the “last-mile” distribution facilities that are proliferating in low-income communities of color demanded — again — on Thursday that the city crack down on the gas-guzzling trucks ruining their neighborhoods.
DOT to Council: Don’t Ask Us To Do More After We Failed to What You Mandated Us To Do Last Year
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The Department of Transportation rejected an entire slate of City Council bills on the grounds that the proposed legislation doesn't help the agency do better this year on its safety goals.
FDNY Wants Feds to Ban Faulty Lithium-Ion Batteries From Entering U.S.
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It's an important change in tactic for the FDNY.
Brooklyn Pols Demand the State ‘Come to the Table’ on the BQE
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More than a dozen Brooklyn lawmakers said they don't want DOT's Brooklyn-Queens Expressway plan: It's the highway or the highway.
EXCLU: Driver Who Sicced NYPD on Lawyer Adam White For ‘Criminal Mischief’ on Defaced Plate is Cop-Adjacent
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The driver who called police on attorney Adam White after he fixed the obscured license plate on a Chevy SUV in November is cozy with law enforcement, Streetsblog has learned.
The State Has ‘No Plans’ to Redesign the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
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State DOT has “no plans” to “redesign the state-owned portion of the BQE," spokesman Joseph Morrissey confirmed in an email to Streetsblog last week.
‘Working Group’ Needed to Revive Trash Hauler Reform Stalled by Adams, Pol Says
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A Brooklyn Council Member is hoping to light a fire under the city's stalled effort to overhaul the dangerous private carting industry — by launching a "working group" to make sense of the ongoing delays to the program passed and signed under ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio.
City to Roll Out 80 More Carshare Spaces Starting This Week as Program Expands
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The goal is to reduce private car ownership and unnecessary trips by making it easier to rent a car for short periods when one is essential.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Announces a Delancey Street ‘Road Diet’ … But Doesn’t Know What It Is
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Sen. Kristen Gillibrand on Monday joined fellow federal, state, and local pols to announce an $18-million federal grant to redesign dangerous Delancey Street with accessibility upgrades, a separated bike lane, and a road diet — but New York's two-term senator didn’t know what a road diet is.
Cops Cuff Black Man for Riding on the Sidewalk — And Stats Show Just How Commonly They Do That
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A Black man was handcuffed and arrested on Thursday night after cops stopped him for biking on the sidewalk in Downtown Brooklyn — and a witness called the incident unnecessary and traumatic given the recent police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis.