Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Air Quality

Businessman Hopes to Bring Bikes Back to Beijing

By Jason Varone | Oct 25, 2007 | 4 Comments

Only 20 years ago, Beijing was one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. Today, rapidly increasing automobile congestion is helping to turn the Chinese capital into one of the most polluted cities on Earth. Air quality is so bad, the Chinese government is initiating special driving restrictions ahead of next year’s Olympic Games […]

State Opposes City Plan for Hell’s Kitchen Parking

By Brad Aaron | Oct 24, 2007 | 9 Comments

In June we reported on the city’s effort to bring some 20,000 additional parking spaces to the Hudson Yards area on the far West Side, via a rezoning provision adopted in 2005. Though it’s a remnant of the failed stadium plan, the Bloomberg administration nonetheless intends to hold on the parking component, going so far […]

Silver: “We’re Not Doing Gansevoort Today.”

By Brad Aaron | Oct 23, 2007 | 10 Comments

From City Room: Speaker Sheldon Silver told City Room this morning that the Assembly would not act on the proposed West Side trash transfer station near Gansevoort Street in the meatpacking district, in his latest snub of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. The station has been a priority for the mayor, who held a news conference […]

Tykes on Bikes

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 18, 2007 | 1 Comment

We’re a bit heavy on bike stuff today (especially considering that all eyes should be on the MTA right now) but following this morning’s bleak news in Brooklyn, I thought it would be nice to end the day on a more life-affirming note. Here is Nick Whitaker’s StreetFilm on the first annual Kids Art Bike […]

Carrion Supports Congestion and Congestion Pricing

By Brad Aaron | Oct 16, 2007 | 5 Comments

Last week AMNY ran a profile of Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion, Jr., playing on the angle that he may make a run for mayor in two years. The piece is mostly flattering, but does make mention of Carrion’s controversial support for the new Yankee Stadium, which, as Streetsblog readers are probably sick of hearing […]

Idle Hands

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 15, 2007 | 27 Comments

Class-cutting school kids in Bushwick and the South Bronx, fear not. The clipboard-wielding women standing outside your school aren’t looking to bust you, they’re trying to help you breathe. As reported in last week’s New Yorker Talk of the Town: The women belong to a nonprofit group called the Asthma Free School Zone, which, […]

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