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Too many sidewalks look like this. File Photo

Manhattan Community Board Demands Stricter Sanitation Rules for Apartments

By Eve Kessler | Oct 3, 2022 | No Comments

Community Board 4 wrote to Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch to outline a raft of new regulations that could curtail New York's infamous "5 o'clock shadow" — and unanimously offered the neighborhood as a laboratory for change.

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."

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.

Mobileye — and the Met. Photo: Mobileye, an Intel Company

Self-Driving Car Industry, Promising Safety, Pushes Back on DOT Plan to Regulate Testing

By Gersh Kuntzman | Sep 1, 2021 | No Comments

The proposed rules would make NYC "inhospitable" to life-saving autonomous vehicle technology, reps for tech giants said at a hearing on Wednesday.

Union Square looking south from Broadway at 17th St. under a business improvement district plan. Photo: Marvel courtesy of the Union Square Partnership

Re-Emergence of ‘Broadway Vision’ Plan Startles Some

By Eve Kessler | Jan 25, 2021 | No Comments

Pedestrianization at Union Square gains impetus from a business-improvement district — not the DOT.

A scene that can be seen every day: a New Yorker trying to avoid a huge pile of trash on the sidewalk. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

TRASH TALK! Mayor Wants To Think About Getting Filthy, Rodent-Infested Garbage Bags out of Pedestrians’ Way

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 3, 2020 | No Comments

"It sure is an interesting idea. It's something I'm happy to look at," he said.

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