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CARLINA RIVERA: Here’s Why My Open Streets Bill Will Make NYC a ‘Model’ for the Nation
A Council Member and supporter of open streets says it plainly: We can transform the way our city works for everyday New Yorkers. We just need the imagination to realize it.
May 1, 2021
ANALYSIS: ‘Permanent’ Open Streets Program Will Only Be As Good As The Next Mayor Wants It To Be
Meet Open Streets 2.0.
April 30, 2021
Friday’s Headlines: It’s Jessica Ramos Day
The Times dropped a mostly favorable profile of the state senator at roughly the same time we dropped a big story on open streets that quoted her as being less supportive of a permanent, 24-7 greenspace for park-starved Jackson Heights than she had been in the past. Plus other news.
April 30, 2021
See It: People Really Enjoy Open Streets When Cars are Banished
Kids having fun. Neighbors meeting neighbors. Everyone walking safe. And a lot of it!
April 29, 2021
ANALYSIS: DOT’s Permanent Open Streets Will Depend on its Definition of ‘Compromise’
Whose compromise? Our compromise!
April 29, 2021
TODAY: Council to Pass Law Mandating Fuller, Bolder Open Streets Program
The City Council will close the gap of leadership exhibited by the de Blasio administration on making permanent the open streets program — mandating more open streets, allowing for their conversion into 24-7 car-free zones and ensuring that they are equitably distributed.
April 28, 2021
Tuesday’s Headlines: Another Day, Another Busway Edition
Washington Heights was seeing red on Monday as the DOT made good on its promise to help beleaguered bus riders on a street that the city had been grappling with for a decade. Yes, W. 181st Street got its Busway. Plus other news.
April 27, 2021
A Round and a Roundy: Bullies Are Destroying Sleepy de Blasio’s Open Streets ‘Program’
Our national treasure cartoonist knows what's going on with the city's open streets program: the mayor is not only asleep at the switch, but he's also turned his back to the real problem.
April 27, 2021
BUDGET DAY: Mayor Proposes Small Money for Open Streets, But Big Bucks to Finish the Manhattan Greenway
Mayor de Blasio says his open streets are "permanent" — but he isn't budgeting any money to make them a permanent part of the streetscape.
April 26, 2021
Mayoral Hopeful Donovan: City’s Open Streets Program is ‘Failing’ Due to De Blasio Incompetence
"Open streets are failing to achieve their fullest potential — not even close," the candidate said.
April 22, 2021
