Events

Every day, tens of thousands of government employees park their cars in front of fire hyrants, bus stops, on the sidewalk and in otherwise illegal places. The practice endangers New Yorkers, and the NYPD refuses to ticket these brazen law-breakers. That's where we come in. Last year, volunteers from Transportation Alternatives busted hundreds of illegal government parkers in two famous studies. This year, we’re keeping up the pressure on permit-abusers with a new website. A team of T.A. staffers and volunteers will document illegal parking patterns with digital cameras (you provide your own) and the pics will be uploaded and geo-coded on the new website, providing a real-time snapshot of the worst illegal parking.

Help Transportation Alternatives spread the word about its important work. Activities include stuffing envelopes, folding t-shirts and sending out campaign materials with fellow activists. Volunteers must be at least 16 years old. No special skills required beyond stuffing envelopes, sticking stamps, etc.

Help Transportation Alternatives spread the word about its important work. Activities include stuffing envelopes, folding t-shirts and sending out campaign materials with fellow activists. Volunteers must be at least 16 years old. No special skills required beyond stuffing envelopes, sticking stamps, etc.

Todd Litman, Executive Director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute will speak about his latest report, Win-Win Emission Reduction Strategies (pdf), which demonstrates how smart transportation strategies can achieve Kyoto emission reduction targets and help address problems such as traffic congestion, accidents and inadequate mobility for non-drivers.

Since Robert Moses's time, there has been a paradigm shift in the way development takes place in New York City. This panel will address the nature of that shift and explore how present-day developers and public agencies address such key issues as the design and scale of projects, local participation in decision marking, and the role of historic preservation in the future of the city's communities. Richard A. Kahan, winner of the Robert Moses Achievement Award and president of The Urban Assembly, will be joined by Paul Goldberger, author and architecture critic for The New Yorker; Michael Kwartler, principal of Michael Kwartler and Associates, and founding director of the Environmental Simulation Center; and Robert Tierney, chairman, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.

A distinguished panel of transportation experts will examine Robert Moses's legacy of roads, bridges, tunnels and highways in the context of today's transportation and transit agenda, stressing strategies for addressing the city's current traffic problems and future demand for expanded and improved mass transit. Panelists will include

Henry Stern, director of New York Civic and former parks commissioner, will lead a panel discussion on Robert Moses and the controversies that surrounded him, including such issues as parks and what could be built in them, race and class, and the role of community members in the decision-making process. Joining Mr. Stern will be Betsy Barlow Rogers, founder and first president of the Central Park Conservancy; Herbert I. London, President, Hudson Institute, and others.

Robert Moses masterfully knit together his vision for New York and its surroundings but resisted the development of a formal master plan for the city's future. The discussion will consider the role of planning in the city in Moses's time and today in light of Mayor Bloomberg's recent announcement of the city's first comprehensive sustainability action plan for long-term growth and developoment. Panelists include

Join curator and architectural historian Hilary Ballon for a gallery talk that will give a comprehensive overview of the exhibiton Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Road to Recreation, followed by a book signing of the accompanying publication Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York (W.W. Norton, 2007, co-edited with Kenneth T. Jackson).