Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Media Watch

The New York Times JSK Profile: Politicos vs. Progressive Transportation

By Ben Fried | Mar 4, 2011 | 61 Comments

Has the Times ever published a profile so singularly devoted to one city commissioner’s relationships with other public figures as this Michael Grynbaum story? It’s not so much a profile of transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan as a 2,500-word description of her place in New York’s political firmament. The question that drives the piece forward is […]

There Is No War On Cars

By Noah Kazis | Mar 1, 2011 | 26 Comments

“The city’s war on automobiles has just gone aerial,” screamed the New York Post in a recent story about speed cameras. A Daily News op-ed in support of safety improvements proclaimed “the battle against cars has saved lives.” The Times matter-of-factly declared last month that “New York City has gone out of its way in […]

Name-Calling Trumps Facts in the Post’s Attacks on 34th Street Transitway

By Ben Fried | Feb 28, 2011 | 16 Comments

The New York Post is escalating its coordinated, fantasy-based assault on efforts to make New York a better city for transit, cycling, and walking. Check out the impressive synergies from its opinion pages: Last week, columnist Steve Cuozzo wrote a column blasting plans for the 34th Street transitway without bothering to check facts or call […]

Steve Cuozzo Hides the Truth: Midtown Biz Leaders Support Street Redesigns

By Ben Fried | Feb 23, 2011 | 8 Comments

Steve Cuozzo columns about street reclamation are usually so divorced from reality that we’ve been letting him go unchallenged for a while. The insanity is usually self-evident. His latest screed against the 34th Street busway is no different. It’s got all the usual fearmongering (“be afraid,” is the mantra), contradictions (in one breath, DOT is […]

WPIX Long Island Reporter Rob Hoell Eats Marcia Kramer’s Lunch

By Ben Fried | Feb 17, 2011 | 15 Comments

Here’s the piece about the Prospect Park West bike lane that ran on the Channel 11 News last night. While it would have been great to see more of the data showing the success of the redesign, WPIX Long Island reporter Rob Hoell gets a lot of the good political details into the segment: The […]

Have You Seen the Latest Marcia Kramer Segment on Prospect Park West?

By Ben Fried | Feb 14, 2011 | 66 Comments

Hey, have you seen Marcia Kramer’s latest segment about Prospect Park West? It’s at least her third piece on a single Brooklyn bike lane in the last year. You can tell she’s had some practice — take a look (sorry about the minivan ad you’ll have to sit through first): If you only got your […]

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