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CB7-december-2019

Car Culture

Entitled Car Owners Win Battle in Upper West Side War on Ultimate Perk: Free Parking

Julianne Cuba joined Streetsblog in February, 2019, after three years covering local news and politics at The Brooklyn Paper. There, she also covered the notoriously reckless private carting industry and hit-and-runs. A 2015 graduate of Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism Master’s Program, she now lives in Brooklyn. Julianne is on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/julcuba?lang=en">@julcuba</a>. Email Julianne at <a href="mailto:julianne@streetsblog.org">julianne@streetsblog.org</a>

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Julianne Cuba

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City Council

Speaker Johnson: No, Really, This Time the City Will End Placard Abuse! (Or at Least Start to End it!)

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Charles Komanoff

Free Parking Isn’t Free — But Upper West Side Car Owners Want To Keep It That Way

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Op-Ed: To Break the Car Culture, Reduce the Number of Parking Spots

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Residential-Parking Permits: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

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Amsterdam

Op-Ed: Want Safe, Bikeable Streets? Get Rid of Free Parking, as Amsterdam Did

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Bay Ridge

Entitled Cops’ Car-Culture ‘Lifestyle’ on Display in Brooklyn

David was Streetsblog&#8217;s do-it-all New York City beat reporter from 2015 to 2019. He returned as deputy editor in 2023 after a three-year stint at the New York Post.

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David Meyer

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Best Practices

EXPLAINER: Why Mayor de Blasio’s Placard Abuse Announcement Today Will Fall Short

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NYPD

There Is No “Placard Crackdown” and That’s How NYPD Wants It

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Mark Levine

Parking Permits Won’t Solve New York’s Parking Crunch If They’re Dirt Cheap

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