Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Charles Komanoff

The ‘Burbs: Extremely Safe or Especially Dangerous?

By Charles Komanoff | May 30, 2007 | 12 Comments

Long Island is safe. So safe that police recruits are flocking to the island’s two counties, according to an article in last Tuesday’s New York Times: High pay coupled with low crime rates make a coveted Long Island job “like winning the lottery in law enforcement,” said Eugene O’Donnell, a professor of law and police […]

Letter of the Week: Congestion Pricing Diplomacy

By Jason Varone | May 16, 2007 | 11 Comments

The Bloomberg Administration is aiming to push its PlaNYC congestion pricing proposal through this session of the state legislature. That means the entire debate will take place within the next 36 days or so. One thing that you can do as an individual citizens to support the Mayor’s plan is to write a letter to […]

Support Builds for Carbon Taxes Over “Cap and Trade”

By Jason Varone | Apr 5, 2007 | 3 Comments

The Independent reports that European CO2 emissions are rising not falling, casting doubt on the EU’s touted Emissions Trading Scheme: Europe’s big polluters pumped more climate-changing gases into the atmosphere in 2006 than during the previous year, according to figures that show the EU’s carbon trading system failing to deliver curbs. Critics said the data […]

When Traffic Enforcement Doesn’t Include Moving Violations

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 21, 2007 | 11 Comments

The streets of Soho, where trucks roam free If you have an eye for New York City traffic mayhem, then you know those "Where’s a cop when I need one" moments. This is about a mayhem moment when a cop was right there — and did nothing. It took place last November, a little before […]

Launching the Campaign for Carbon Taxes

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 22, 2007 | 4 Comments

Streetsblog contributor Charles Komanoff, along with Daniel Rosenblum, today announce the foundation of their new organization, the Carbon Tax Center. The Center’s mission is "to educate and inform policymakers, opinion leaders and the public, including grassroots organizations, about the benefits of and critical need for significant, rising and equitable taxes on carbon emissions from fossil […]

Does Vehicular Chaos Push Families Out of NYC?

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 15, 2007 | 10 Comments

Streetsblog contributor Charles Komanoff had an excellent letter in the New York Times on Sunday in response to the article about Sara Robbins, the Brooklyn Heights woman tragically, horrifyingly killed by a private sanitation truck last month: To the Editor: Your reporting in "A Death in the Family" (Dec. 24) makes clear that the traffic […]

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