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Op-Ed: When Self-Quarantine Is a Privilege
Poor New Yorkers can't work from home to protect themselves from COVID-19. The city will be judged by how it responds to the most needy.
April 15, 2020
Wednesday’s Headlines: Open Space, Closed Mind Edition
It's not only Streetsblog that's actively covering Mayor de Blasio's failure to create more open space.
April 15, 2020
Live from Oakland: Mayor de Blasio is Wrong About Bay Area City’s Open Streets Success
Our Streetsblog San Francisco correspondent Roger Rudick has the whole story — complete with pictures showing the mayor flat-out lied about the East Bay experiment.
April 14, 2020
Mayor Triples Down on His ‘Adamant’ Refusal to Create More Open Space, But Finally Blames Drivers
Mayor de Blasio once again argued that he could not create more open space for socially responsible recreation because the NYPD could not enforced it — but this time, the mayor staked out new territory: He blamed reckless drivers.
April 14, 2020
WTF? Carless New Yorkers Are Being Sent To, And Turned Away From, Drive-Thru Test Sites
New Yorkers without cars are on their own — or have to put someone else at risk — if they get sent to a coronavirus drive-thru testing site.
April 14, 2020
What’s This? NYPD Starts Limited Action Against Speeders
Cops wrote nearly 7 percent more tickets on two weekdays last week. Not bad — except automated speed cameras are writing 57 percent more tickets!
April 14, 2020
SEE IT! New Streetfilms Video Shows Why We Won’t Go Back
Under normal circumstances, the world is upside-down: a small minority of selfish car owners force the rest of us to breathe toxic exhaust, get stuck in their traffic, be killed by their reckless use of steel cages, get terrified just to cross a street, etc. So let's change that.
April 14, 2020
Op-Ed: Protecting Transit Workers During — and After — the COVID Crisis
The virus has exposed widespread failures in how we protect our essential workforce. Here's the actions agencies must take now and after the pandemic subsides.
April 14, 2020
SPEED DEMONS ON STEROIDS: Do Our Leaders Even Care About Reckless Drivers Right Now?
The increase in speeding has gotten even worse — with school zone speed cameras now issuing 57 percent more tickets since the beginning of Gov. Cuomo's statewide shutdown on March 22.
April 13, 2020
Monday’s Headlines: No One is Going to Go Back to ‘Normal’ Edition
But Mayor de Blasio struggles to get New York back to "normal," he needs to know that none of his constituents is going to want to go back to the "normal" that existed before the pandemic. So plan ahead.
April 13, 2020
