Vision Zero is edging us closer to a pedestrian-safe city. But New York won’t get anywhere near that goal until we reverse decades of street design intended to make the world work for cars, not people.
NYCHA is bringing back the “Not Wanted” list, more cops are being assigned to address street homelessness and—in the wake of a cop’s death—the mayor is faulting criminal courts for leniency. This author wonders if this is a new Bill de Blasio, or just the real one.
The looming City Council debate about the mayor’s rezoning proposals should grapple with a deeper question: Should New York accept a future as a hyper-dense metropolis, or try to recapture a human-scaled city?
There are no shortage of ideas on what the city should do now to deal with rising shelter numbers. But selecting the right cure depends on diagnosing the causes of today’s homelessness problem.
The de Blasio administration is behind schedule on making information from city agencies available on the city’s Open Data website. Advocates say the law requiring data releases broke new ground, but lacked any enforcement mechanism.
Critics still grumble over lower speed limits and the use of cameras to catch offenders, but the city has seen a decrease in the number of deaths and serious injuries in traffic accidents, although the number of crashes is up slightly.
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer recommended approval of the mayor’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing plan after the administration agreed to address a range of concerns about the proposal. She rejected a second zoning proposal, however.
Gregg Bishop, who was elevated to the commissioner’s post this week, talked to Worksite correspondent Marc Bussanich this summer.
Conventional wisdom is that gentrification displaces the poor. Research contradicts that—but it doesn’t paint a simple or fully reassuring picture.
The $3.3 billion, 20-year plan to send Brooklyn garbage to the Seneca Meadows landfill illustrates the growing costs of burying trash.
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