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Opinion: Let the Schools Use the Streets
The city's opening of streets for restaurants provided a lifeline in the pandemic. The schools deserve no less.
August 6, 2020
City Must Act Now to Save Transit, Prevent Carmaggedon and Improve Equity in Mobility: Report
Yet mayor de Blasio thinks he's doing just fine.
July 31, 2020
Opinion: Time To Protect the City’s Street Vendors
The pandemic has hurt these mostly immigrant small businesses, which have always faced discriminatory enforcement. The administration must step up with law, open streets and policy.
July 29, 2020
Opinion: Citi Bike? Outdoor Restaurants? We Can Have Both — Just Limit the Cars!
Now that the Citi Bike rack in front of Gene's restaurant has been relocated, one West Village resident thinks people were waging the wrong battle.
July 24, 2020
Op-Ed: The Dangers of Privatizing Public Space
As the city opens streets for restaurants, we must ensure that businesses' interests do not crowd out public needs.
July 5, 2020
Op-Ed: Making Black Lives Matter in Street Safety
Our racial-equity lens must foster real policies that can be regularly evaluated and measured.
July 1, 2020
State Pol: Let’s Legalize Drinking in Public
"The illegality of public drinking is stupid," Assembly Member Robert Carroll says.
June 29, 2020
Op-Ed: It’s Time to Legalize Public Drinking for All New Yorkers
Those with fair skin in affluent ZIP codes will continue to drink with their friends in the streets, while minorities will be subject to arbitrary harassment and summonses for doing the same. This needs to stop.
June 28, 2020
A Round and a Roundy: ‘Whose Streets? Cops’ Streets!’
Our editorial cartoonist weighs in on how the NYPD has stolen public space.
June 22, 2020
Mayor Reveals ‘Open Restaurants’ Plan — And Industry is Pleased
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.
June 18, 2020
