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Hank Gutman
Hank Gutman was commissioner of the Department of Transportation, the city’s second-most-important job, in the last year of the de Blasio administration. Before that, he was a litigation partner and head of the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. He has served on boards of multiple public entities, such as Brooklyn Bridge … Continued
November 9, 2025
Mike Peregudov
Mike Peregudov is the co-founder of Whizz, an e-bike subscription service based in the United States.
November 6, 2025
Arline L. Bronzaft
Dr. Arline Bronzaft served as an advisor to five New York City mayors as the chairperson of the Noise Committee of GrowNYC.org. As an environmental psychologist, Bronzaft’s classic research on the effects of subway noise on children’s learning in the 1970s led to her lifelong commitment to combine her scientific expertise and passion for urban … Continued
November 3, 2025
Nilka Martell
Nilka Martell is the board chair of the Bronx River Alliance and founder of Loving the Bronx.
November 3, 2025
Siddhartha Sánchez
Siddhartha Sánchez is the executive director of the Bronx River Alliance, which works to leverage the Bronx River corridor for the communities through which it flows.
November 3, 2025
Austin C. Jefferson
Before becoming Albany Bureau Chief in late 2025, Austin C. Jefferson was a state politics reporter for City & State NY, covering state government, elections and major legislative debates. His reporting has also appeared in the Daily Freeman, Chronogram Magazine and The Legislative Gazette. Having grown up in the Hudson Valley, he’s always happy to … Continued
October 22, 2025
Benjamin Schneider
Benjamin Schneider is a freelance journalist covering all things urbanism. His work has appeared in Bloomberg CityLab, MIT Technology Review, The Nation, and many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn. His website is www.urbenschneider.com.
October 21, 2025
J.K. Trotter
Before joining Streetsblog in late 2025, J.K. Trotter covered media and politics at Gawker and edited investigations at Business Insider. He studied philosophy at St. John’s College and lives in Queens.
October 21, 2025
Elif Ensari
Elif Ensari is a research scholar at NYU’s Marron Institute of Urban Management, where she works with the Transportation and Land Use group. Her research focuses on the costs of building passenger rail, ridership estimation, Transit-Oriented Development, and the walking and cycling infrastructure of New York City. She contributes to the Transit Costs Project, which investigates why … Continued
October 15, 2025
