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CASE CLOSED: 311 Is A Joke — Sanitation Department Edition
The case is closed — but the junked bike remains.
February 25, 2021
CYCLE OF RAGE: What is Going On? Who’s In Charge? Why Are the Bike Lanes STILL A Mess 12 Days After a Storm?
I guess I'm tired of having to reach out to multiple agencies — Sanitation, DOT, Parks, the MTA, the NYPD, the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Buildings — every time it snows to find out who's in charge.
February 14, 2021
CYCLE OF RAGE: Misguided Mayoral Campaigns — In Two Simple Maps
More than 40,000 people will be injured in car crashes in New York City this year. Yet we hear nothing about those victims.
December 6, 2020
CYCLE OF RAGE: DOT Begins Arduous Process of Getting a Queens Community Board to Enter the 21st Century
The process that the Department of Transportation uses to make city roadways safer and more hospitable to human being is a broken one. An opinion piece from last night's CB3 meeting in Queens.
October 29, 2020
White Privilege on the Upper West Side: Board Condemns Police Brutality — Then Calls for More Cops!
A community board in the predominantly white Upper West Side says it supports the Black Lives Matter movement — then calls for more enforcement by the NYPD, which disproportionately targets blacks.
June 4, 2020
BUZZKILL: Blue Angels ‘Tribute’ is Unwelcome Noise, Pollution and Patriotism
If spewing pollution over a city battling a respiratory disease is a salute, it's definitely the one-finger kind.
April 27, 2020
Mr. Mayor, You’re a Smart Guy, So Why Do You Wrongly Think Cops Must ‘Enforce’ Open Space?
The mayor said that car-free streets are "dangerous" places that must be "enforced by the NYPD."
April 12, 2020
CYCLE OF RAGE: Crash Response Reveals that Cops Are Just So Badly Trained
More evidence that police officers are poorly trained and disinclined to see drivers as a culprit in the criminal or civil offense of injuring or killing someone with a motor vehicle.
January 15, 2020
The Ongoing Shame of How the NYPD Downplays Road Violence to Shield Drivers
The death of Judith Wieder once again highlights a major failure of the NYPD to properly inform the public — but only because the death was caught on video.
January 8, 2020
CYCLE OF RAGE: Mayor Chooses Politics over Facts in Backing NTSB Helmet Recommendation
For the second time in as many months, Mayor de Blasio has willfully ignored facts to align himself with an anti-biking policy that would dramatically reduce cycling.
November 6, 2019
