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Today was the last day of early voting in the NYC democratic primary. Ranked choice voting gives us options and these are my 💯, all proven leaders for the offices they hold or seek. ✅ @bradlander.bsky.social ✅ @marklevinenyc.bsky.social ✅ @chiosse.bsky.social ✅ @bkbpreynoso.bsky.social

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

This is what we mean when we say streets are vital public spaces.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Not all 500,000-home commitments are created equal; thank you @bradlander.bsky.social for showing your work. We can't just stop the bleeding of rising rents: we have to cure the underlying disease of our decades-in-the-making housing shortage. Brad gets that—hopefully voters will too.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

RPA STUDY: Congestion pricing "has reduced traffic not only in Manhattan’s congestion relief zone (CRZ) but on roadways across the region. These time savings seem to be stable — remaining consistent and undiminished" -- rpa.org/news/lab/con...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

In neighboring East Orange, our same team removed a dedicated right turn lane to calm traffic and create better pedestrian crossings and sight lines under the rail viaduct at the Brick Church NJ Transit Station. Local artist Steve Green brought forth a beautiful and varied geometric design. 🤩

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The intersection S. Essex and Tony Galento Plaza is a major gateway to downtown Orange, NJ and their NJ Transit station. Until last week it lacked crosswalks and suffered from visibility issues given the rail viaduct. #TacticalUrbanism #AsphaltArt

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

There was once a highway here where no such view or social experience was possible for people.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Just arrived in Providence. 👀 @thewaroncars.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

👀 Lyft’s next gen pedal and electric assist bikes just dropped. Cant wait to see these in NYC. lyfturbansolutions.com/blog/2025/06...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

STUDY found that “the growing number of SUVs reduced the vehicle capacity of freeway lanes in Minnesota’s Twin Cities by 9.5% between 1995-2019. Their findings suggest yet another way in which ‘car bloat’ exacerbates problems that affect everyone, regardless of how they travel.” Plus more deaths…

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

The anti-abundance agenda at work. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/c...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

How amazing! #KidicalMassNYC + @bergenbikebus.bsky.social = an amazing day on #BikeNYC with your kids! @mikelydon.bsky.social @tabk.bsky.social @bikenewyork.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Did you know that the mortality impact of being socially disconnected is similar to that caused by smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day? I didn’t until I wrote about the design of our communities and its impact on loneliness for Streetsblog NYC’s Car Harms series. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/06/09/c...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Paris, leading from the front.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

I’ve lived here for 16 years but I’m always impressed by the metabolism of New York, where there is seemingly an endless demand for more housing. The late 2021 Gowanus rezoning is expected to deliver 9,300 new housing units (3,000 affordable-ish?) and a canal-side promenade.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Forget all of the noise they’re making, this graphic tells you all you need to know about this administration and its priorities.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Most of the plantings still need to go in but the 14th Street Promenade is now open and being used as we intended!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

After decades of letting people leave piles of messing drippy garbage bags on the sidewalks, the Department of Sanitation says its plan to change the way NYC deals with garbage has started in earnest. buff.ly/uGPUhfk

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Unpopular opinion: NYC needs fewer parks not more if it won’t also increase overall maintenance dollars. This mayor broke a campaign promise to increase parks funding to 1% of the city budget, meaning these new sites will take scant resources away from existing parks. gothamist.com/news/nyc-wan...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning from the Brooklyn Greenway, where the trees are maturing nicely, creating a green wall that further buffers people from parked and moving vehicles.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Refreshing to see two NYC pols who have each served as my councilors get behind housing in our community. Our family looks forward to new neighbors, new businesses, a safer Atlantic Avenue and refreshed public spaces - like Hancock Park! 👏 👏 👏 🙏 @chiosse.bsky.social @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2 Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1 Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7

submitted 24 days ago • 329 comments

New York GDP per capita: $117.3K Florida GDP per capita: $73.8K Republicans want you to be poor

submitted 24 days ago • 113 comments

Haters say bike lanes slow emergency vehicle response. In reality, they speed it up. Including me, numerous people cycling or scootering got out of the way so NYPD could use the lane to bypass a long line of drivers who didn’t budge. 🙄

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

“One can only imagine a world in which the mayors of American cities were equally motivated by the economic benefits of public transit.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Are you coming to the Congress for the New Urbanism? You really should. I’ve learned so much at CNU. If money’s an obstacle, consider volunteering: www.cnu.org/cnu33/volunt...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Research out of UC-Berkeley’s Terner Center: How is the US doing in building lower VMT, walkable neighborhoods? Better than recent decades but results vary dramatically across states and metro areas. And we clearly aren’t building _enough_ housing. ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/buildin...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

“Of the 121 pedestrians killed in traffic last year, 120 were struck by a car while one person died after being hit by an electric bike, according to city transportation department data...” Tisch’s criminalization of ⚡️ 🚲 is absurd and clearly not about safety. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/n...

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

(De)congestion pricing has exceeded expectations but imagine if the peak charge was $15, as initially planned, and not $9. It’s likely that this Midtown intersection would be more functional for everyone.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Wednesday's Most Read # 1 - The Problem with My City Is That It’s a City link.theoverheadwire.com/jt8xg @mcsweeneys.net

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

We got cranky people outraged over NYC DOT's plans to convert 34th St to a busway - and yet we already have one crosstown street (14th) that works beautifully and shows success. It works for transit, peds 🚶‍♂️, bikes 🚴‍♂️and even all emergency services 🚑 🚓 🚒 that use 14th. SEE IT! it'll blow you away!

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

Decks 1 - 5 with furniture are now finished along the 14th Street Promenade! Planters and granite blocks linking these new spaces will be installed over next two weeks and help reduce the effective street width by 33-60%. Stay tuned!

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

At the mayoral forum put on by Hell Gate and @nysfocus.bsky.social, we put the question everyone's been asking us about, directly to the candidates. Will you cross-endorse to defeat Andrew Cuomo....or will you continue to go it alone? The response might legit surprise you!

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

Hearing someone (Seder!) ask, in good faith, "but [if you build six-story apartments throughout Silicon Valley], how are you going to pay for the transit to serve all those apartments?" caused physical pain to my soul.