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Eve Kessler

Email Eve Kessler at eve@streetsblog.org

Recent Posts

A DOT bike corral,. The city should prioritize building more such facilities, stat! Photo: DOT

After Years of Neglect, DOT’s Bike Corral Program Is Back

By Eve Kessler | Feb 14, 2020 | No Comments
A once-bustling program says it is taking applications. Warning: Installation can take a long time.
CB7 debated the resolution (seen onscreen) Tuesday night. Photo: Eve Kessler

ANALYSIS: 'Parking' Study Was Neutral — But It's The First Salvo in War on Cars

By Eve Kessler | Feb 6, 2020 | No Comments
An Upper West Side panel's call for a "study" of curbside use was anodyne, but the study may lead to changes that will forever end the notion of "free" parking. Let's hope.
A rendering of the proposed LGA AirTrain.  Image: Governor's Office

Council Has Put Off Hearing on ‘Backwards’ LaGuardia AirTrain: Sources

By Eve Kessler | Feb 5, 2020 | No Comments
“There is a lack of transparency here," said one lawmaker.
Safe-streets activists hold signs at Community Board 7's meeting. Andrew Rosenthal is at right. Photo: Eve Kessler

Upper West Side Panel Approves Neutered ‘No Parking’ Study

By Eve Kessler | Feb 5, 2020 | No Comments
CB 7's much-neutered resolution passes — finally! — with a huge display of parking angst.
A parking lot at LaGuardia Airport. Photo: LGA Twitter
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ANALYSIS: LGA AirTrain is Andrew Cuomo’s $2B Parking Lot

By Eve Kessler | Jan 24, 2020 | No Comments
UPDATED: The real motivator behind the Backwards LaGuardia AirTrain, a toy train for the business class, is not transit. It's cars.
Count AOC skeptical about the FAA's explanations for why it ruled out alternatives to the Port Authority's preferred AirTrain route.
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AOC to FAA: No on LGA AirTrain

By Eve Kessler | Jan 13, 2020 | No Comments
The Congress member wrote to the FAA blasting the lack of transparency around project, which would reside in her district.
A rendering of the proposed LGA AirTrain.  Image: Governor's Office

Queens Coalition Brings Last-Ditch Effort to Sink ‘Wrong Way’ LaGuardia AirTrain

By Eve Kessler | Jan 2, 2020 | No Comments
Local groups ask Cuomo to halt plans so that the state can conduct an independent environmental review.
The two-way bike lane on 37th Street. The DOT is advertising for bike-mounted bike-lane apprentice inspectors. Photo: Streetsblog

DOT Answers #bikenyc Prayers With Bike-Lane Inspector Program

By Eve Kessler | Dec 19, 2019 | No Comments
Want to spend all day riding a bike in the great outdoors, help the city improve its bike network — and get paid for it?
A pro-car Upper West Side resident rises to defend his entitlement at the CB7 Transportation Committee Meeting in 2019. Some CB7 members are sorry that the body passed a resolution asking the city to consider curb uses other than parking. Photo: Eve Kessler

IT’S A DRAW: CB7 Panel Passes ‘Parking’ Resolution, But ‘Consensus’ Must Be Had

By Eve Kessler | Dec 11, 2019 | No Comments
Proposal to study whether private car storage is best uses of public space advances — at a price.
CB7 Transportation Committee Chairman Howard Yaruss makes a point at the board's December 2019 meeting. Photo: Screenshot

Entitled Car Owners Win Battle in Upper West Side War on Ultimate Perk: Free Parking

By Eve Kessler | Dec 4, 2019 | No Comments
Mere mention of alternatives to "free parking" sets off hysteria at a community board meeting.
A rendering from the city's East Side Coastal Resiliency plan shows the East River waterfront.

STREETSBLOG GETS ACTION! City Mulls Protected Bike Lanes on Lower East Side

By Eve Kessler | Nov 15, 2019 | No Comments
Move would create alternative routes as the East Side Greenway is closed for flood protection.
Professor Charles Komanoff makes a point on the high cost of free parking at a meeting on the Upper West Side last night. Photo: Lisa Orman
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Free Parking Isn’t Free — But Upper West Side Car Owners Want To Keep It That Way

By Eve Kessler | Oct 30, 2019 | No Comments
Entitled drivers bristle at a community board forum that envisions better uses for public space than car storage.
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