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Streetsblog Gets Action: Manhattan Community Board Retreats on Gag Rule
Manhattan's Community Board 7 has abandoned its bid to muzzle members with ties to a prominent street-safety organization, a move undertaken after Streetsblog exposed the effort to change the panel's bylaws.
June 13, 2022
Upper West Side Community Board Tries To Muzzle Street-Safety Activists
Revenge is a dish best served ... by changing the rules.
May 27, 2022
Latest 79th Street Rotunda Design Angers Activists
A longtime flashpoint for bike advocates flares anew. Paging Mayor Adams!
February 10, 2022
Eyes on the Street: Cops are Undermining Safety on Columbus Ave.
Cops in the 20th Precinct are leaving their private vehicles in a left-turn lane created by the Department of Transportation to make a busy Upper West Side intersection safer — the latest example of the DOT's so-called "Vision Zero partners" not caring about Vision Zero designs.
August 17, 2021
USPS Victim Was a ‘Great Man’ on the Verge of Retirement When Killed on his Commute, Wife Says
Killed cyclist Jeffrey Williamson was about to retire before a postal service driver killed him on Central Park West.
June 30, 2021
OPINION: What I Learned Delivering for DoorDash
Richard Robbins
June 24, 2021
Upper West Side Panel Sees E-Bikes as the Threat — But de Blasio Disagrees
Members of an Upper West Side community board again put the safety of delivery cyclists secondary in passing a resolution on Tuesday night demanding that they be banned from protected bike lanes — a notion that was quickly sent into the dustbin of history by Mayor de Blasio.
June 9, 2021
A Round and a Roundy: The Upper West Side is Pissing on NYC Heroes
The fauxgressives of the Upper West Side have really pissed off our cartoonist.
May 12, 2021
Council Hopeful Champions a Pedestrianized Broadway in Manhattan Contest
Sara Lind runs on a plan to revive Upper West Side businesses with rezoning, street improvements and greenery.
February 1, 2021
City Ignoring Dangerous Conditions on Hudson River Greenway Despite Upcoming Bulkhead Repairs
Cyclists will have to wait at least two more years for a smooth, safe bike route along the nation's busiest bike path, despite the Parks Department's awareness that a long stretch of the Hudson River Greenway is dangerous.
October 23, 2020
