Op-Ed: Making Black Lives Matter in Street Safety
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Our racial-equity lens must foster real policies that can be regularly evaluated and measured.
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Tuesday’s Headlines: Under the Knife Edition
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The latest on our old man editor's surgery today, an explanation for all our typos, and all the other news from around our reopening city.
Mayor Reveals ‘Open Restaurants’ Plan — And Industry is Pleased
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A bubbly Mayor de Blasio announced a major, and streamlined, open streets for restaurants plan that, he says, will save 5,000 eateries and their 45,000 employees.
Post-COVID, A New ‘Office of Public Space Management’ Could Efficiently Fix the Current Mess
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To address the indignities of our streetscape, we need to provide better service at a lower cost and change how we value our streets. Streets are not just conduits for traffic. Streets are places for people.
City Hall to Create Space for Outdoor Dining When Phase 2 Starts — But When is That?!
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Don’t make your reservations just yet. Mayor de Blasio has unveiled a plan for letting eateries use miles of public space to jumpstart the economy once the state gives the city the green light on Phase II of its reopening plan — which the mayor repeatedly said on Thursday would not start until “the beginning […]
Op-Ed: Let People March In the Streets
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We must recognize the ad-hoc nature of the urban streetscape. Yes, our avenues can move bicycles, busses, trucks, cars and pedestrians but they can also propel our democracy.