Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Public Health

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. […]

Citizens Hammer NYPD Commissioner Kelly on Street Safety

By Brad Aaron | Mar 25, 2008 | 13 Comments

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly at Baruch College last week The following report was submitted by Carol Wood, a Murray Hill resident, along with Emilia Crotty, Bicycle Education Program Associate for Bike New York. Both are members of the NYC Bicycling Coalition. Last Thursday evening, March 20, nearly 200 East Siders turned out for a "Town […]

Moses to LaGuardia: Bikes Have No Place on the Street

By Ben Fried | Mar 19, 2008 | 4 Comments

Dave Lutz of the Neighborhood Open Space Coalition has been digging through the Municipal Archives and look what he found: a 1938 memo from Robert Moses to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia about the need to create a network of dedicated bike paths in city parks. Moses’s reasoning looks odd to modern eyes, in part because he […]

Assemblyman Hevesi Clarifies Transit “Money Grab” Comment

By Brad Aaron | Feb 26, 2008 | 12 Comments

Following our post yesterday about a newspaper article in which Andrew Hevesi was quoted as calling congestion pricing "a money grab to pay for mass transit," Streetsblog got a call from the Queens assemblyman’s office. Aide Ashley Pillsbury wanted us to know that, while Hevesi is opposed to congestion pricing, he is a supporter of […]

We Are Breathing Oil in Our Big Cities

By Jason Varone | Feb 20, 2008 | 4 Comments

In three different studies presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science‘s annual meeting in Boston last weekend, researchers "provided mounting evidence that air pollution can both increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in the long-term and induce heart attacks within hours of traffic exposure." While the studies have yet to be released […]

Pint-Sized Parks Make Safer Streets and Cleaner Rivers

By Ben Fried | Feb 14, 2008 | 16 Comments

The Greenstreet at 110th and Amsterdam helps keep sewage out of city rivers and features a beefed-up, traffic-calming "blockbuster." It rained yesterday, sending stormwater streaming down New York City streets and through sewer grates. The runoff mixed with wastewater in the system and overloaded treatment facilities, causing raw sewage to spill into the city’s waterways. […]

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