Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Melinda Katz

Queens Borough President and next District Attorney Melinda Katz taking questions on Wednesday. Photo: Julianne Cuba

Queens’s Next Top Prosecutor Dodges Whether She’d Boot CB Member Who Said Pedestrians ‘Deserve’ to Die

By Julianne Cuba | Aug 7, 2019 | 2 Comments

The Queens Beep still refuses to join her colleagues in condemning the community board member and city employee, who said at a public meeting that pedestrians “deserve” to die if they cross the street while looking at their phones.

Remember her? Queens Borough President Donovan Richards reappointed Kim Ohanian to Community Board 7.

Community Board Member Who Said Pedestrians ‘Deserve’ to Die May Get Booted

By Julianne Cuba | Jul 19, 2019 | 38 Comments

"We're going to look into who that employee is and whatever appropriate disciplinary measures can be taken," Mayor de Blasio said on Friday.

Melinda Katz’s “Bike Master Plan” Better Be More Than a Delay Tactic

By David Meyer | Jan 27, 2017 | 5 Comments

Katz's call for a borough-wide bike plan might not mean what you think. It echoes comments she made in an attempt to block the second phase of the Queens Boulevard redesign.

Melinda Katz Tries to Kill Queens Blvd Bike Lane in the Name of “Community”

By Ben Fried | May 13, 2016 | 86 Comments

This was the community’s reaction to the @NYC_DOT proposal @MelindaKatz @StreetsblogNYC pic.twitter.com/JyyXFroWwK — Jaime Andrés (@jaimeamonc) May 12, 2016 Tuesday night’s meeting on the redesign of Queens Boulevard in Elmhurst was one of the uglier exercises in petty community board obstructionism in recent memory. Queens Community Board 4 District Manager Christian Cassagnol said the safety of cyclists […]

Why Is Queens BP Melinda Katz Refusing to Divulge 2015 CB Appointments?

By Brad Aaron | May 12, 2015 | 6 Comments

Streetsblog has filed a freedom of information request after Queens Borough President Melinda Katz refused to provide us a list of 2015 community board appointments. Community boards play an outsized role in determining how safe New York City streets are for walking, biking, and driving. Though their votes are supposed to be advisory, DOT rarely […]

Queens BP Melinda Katz Prioritizes Parking Over Affordable Housing

By Stephen Miller | Apr 17, 2015 | 41 Comments

Few things set off alarm bells for car-owning New Yorkers more than the thought of having less parking. So when the Department of City Planning proposed a minor reduction in parking requirements, the community board chairs of Queens got a case of road rage, with Borough President Melinda Katz at the wheel. Here’s the problem: The city requires […]