Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Equity

Sony Sauveur, owner of Golden Blue, a Caribbean restaurant on Flatbush Avenue and Clarendon Road, said the open restaurants program was crucial for his business's survival. Photo: Henry Beers Shenk

Pandemic Dining Program Added Outdoor Cafés to 17 Neighborhoods that Never Had Them

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 19, 2023 | No Comments

And the "open restaurants" initiative was also a boon to especially blue collar districts of color outside of Manhattan, according to a new report.

A rider boards a B61 bus next to a Fair Fares bus shelter ad on Columbia Street in Brooklyn.

Transit Equity? Adams Budget Adds No New Funds for Fair Fares Discount Program

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 12, 2023 | No Comments

Mayor Adams's preliminary budget does not increase funding for Fair Fares, the city's half-price MetroCard program for very low-income transit riders — a program that only last year, Mayor Adams called "transformative."

KOMANOFF: The Weight of Gasoline

By Charles Komanoff | Nov 2, 2022 | No Comments

The Democrats are getting creamed over the price of gasoline — and it’s not really fair (though it sort of is, too).

OPINION: On Nov. 8, Yes, Vote, But to Rebuild New York, Make Your Ideas Heard

By Peter Muennig | Nov 1, 2022 | No Comments

Casting a ballot on Election Day has always been important, but it has never been quite enough to meaningfully transform the lives of everyday New Yorkers. The story of the effort to deck over the Cross Bronx Expressway illustrates why.

Just walking onto the bus: Cheaper than you might have thought? Photo: Kevin Duggan

EXCLUSIVE: Fair Fares to Roll Out on OMNY Next Year But Enrollment Still Lags

By Kevin Duggan | Oct 26, 2022 | No Comments

The city's Fair Fares program providing half-priced MetroCards to low-income New Yorkers will transition to the MTA's OMNY payment system next year, Streetsblog has learned.

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Opinion: Whose Child Will Be Killed on a Stroad?

By Marlene Druker | Oct 23, 2022 | No Comments

We can’t keep using the places that poor people live in as highways for wealthier people to move through quickly.

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