Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Air Quality

Albany Gives the Go-Ahead to Gansevoort Waste Transfer Station

By Ben Fried | Jun 25, 2008 | 4 Comments

State lawmakers reached an agreement yesterday allowing the city to move forward with plans for a recycling transfer station on Manhattan’s Gansevoort peninsula near 14th Street. The step may do more to reduce traffic than any other measure passed during the latest legislative session, which wrapped up this morning. The Gansevoort station is part of […]

City Planning Commission Approves 400-Car Garage for Hell’s Kitchen

By Ben Fried | Jun 12, 2008 | 5 Comments

Two weeks ago Streetsblog reported on the glut of public parking garages being built in Hell’s Kitchen, which threatens to worsen traffic conditions in one of New York’s most congested neighborhoods. The City Planning Commission could have set a precedent last Friday by denying a developer’s request to build a 400-car public garage as part […]

Hell’s Parking Lot

By Ben Fried | May 30, 2008 | 7 Comments

If there's one thing a neighborhood overrun by traffic doesn't need, it's more public parking garages. But that's exactly what New Yorkers who live by the mouth of the Lincoln Tunnel will get if the City Planning Commission allows current development patterns to continue.

Jessica Lappin: Congestion Pricing Advocate

By Jason Varone | Apr 15, 2008 | 22 Comments

This recent constituent e-mail shows that Council Member Jessica Lappin’s lukewarm support for congestion pricing seems to have turned into full-fledged support now that the proposal has no chance of being implemented (taking a page out of Assemblywoman Joan Millman‘s book). In Lappin’s defense, she did vote for pricing when it came before the council. […]

What Glick’s District Will Lose Without Congestion Pricing

By Ben Fried | Apr 4, 2008 | 21 Comments

With the fate of congestion pricing likely to be decided over the weekend, we’re going to beat this drum some more this afternoon. Yesterday we heard that Assembly Member Deborah Glick’s office told a constituent the congestion pricing bill could lead to worsening air quality. (Because, you know, building mass transit infrastructure will cancel out […]

Glick Worried Pricing Will Make Air Quality Worse

By Ben Fried | Apr 3, 2008 | 38 Comments

Reader Sarah Ferguson reports that Assembly Member Deborah Glick (right), who represents Lower Manhattan, has come up with a novel twist on Richard Brodsky’s call for further environmental review of congestion pricing. Read on for the full story, and keep making those phone calls. We want to know what else legislators are telling their constituents […]

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