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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Clean Curbs’ Residential Bins To Launch in Hells Kitchen
A quiet block of W. 45th St. becomes a laboratory for shaving New York's '5 o'clock shadow.'
June 27, 2022
Broad Coalition Demands Mayor Adams Properly Manage New York’s Busiest Places: The Curb
It's a popular front against "chaos at the curb."
May 19, 2022
Urban Design Forum Envisions Street-Based ‘Platform’ for a ‘Thriving City’
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.
May 18, 2022
City Will Extend Tiny Clean Curbs Program to All Boroughs
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'?
April 21, 2022
Got Commercial Trash? The Sanitation Department Has $20K for Your Project
The city will spend an almost infinitesimal amount of money on a problem with monumental repercussions.
April 11, 2022
Advocates: DOT’s 21st Street Redesign Caters to Drivers and Parking
DOT's plan for a dedicated curbside bus lane won't remove any parking spots, which discriminates against straphangers and pedestrians on behalf of car drivers on a deadly strip, critics said.
December 21, 2021
The People Have Spoken: DOT Study Reveals Vast Support for Outdoor Dining
In Manhattan, the supposed epicenter of opposition, a city survey shows that 84 percent of residents support the "Covid huts." Citywide, 64 percent support them.
November 22, 2021
Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: How To Manage a City of Eight Million
New York needs a 'director of the public realm,' argue officials at two important municipal not-for-profits.
October 19, 2021
Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: Cheap, Rapid, and in Our Control
How cities are making streets safe more quickly and easily than ever before.
October 16, 2021
Sanitation Dept. Urged to Get Garbage out of Pedestrians’ Way
Nineteen months after 'Clean Curbs" was announced with great fanfare, not a container has been sited anywhere. The next mayor ought to get cracking.
October 8, 2021
