Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Dan Garodnick

Video Shows Dangers of Upper East Side Bike Plan

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 14, 2007 | 50 Comments

The City’s plan to stripe a bike lane across the Upper East Side continues to generate "controversy." I put that word in quotes because, well, check out the video above and see for yourself what all the fuss is all about. The video was filmed on a beautiful Saturday afternoon at about 2:00 pm, theoretically, […]

Lappin Describes Her Position as “Similar to Gov. Spitzer’s”

By Glenn McAnanama | Jun 12, 2007 | No Comments

A couple of weeks ago I nearly spit out my morning coffee over the front page of Metro NY when I read that my City Council member Jessica Lappin was opposed to Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan. Dismissing residential parking permits as "a hunting license" Lappin said she was afraid of a "crush of cars" […]

Will City Council Override Mayor’s Pedicab-Bill Veto?

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 23, 2007 | 2 Comments

Anticipating a vote in the City Council this afternoon to override the mayor’s veto of Intro 331-A, a bill to regulate pedicabs, a group of pedicab operators was demonstrating outside the American Museum of Natural History after Bloomberg’s big Earth Day speech. Handing out leaflets with the numbers of swing councilmembers like Daniel Garodnick, the […]

Pedestrian Interference

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 26, 2007 | 13 Comments

Left to right: New York City Department of Transportation Deputy Commissioner/Senior Policy Advisor David Woloch, Commissioner Iris Weinshall, a procurement and technical servicea aide and City Councilmembers John Liu and Gale Brewer. As I saw it, the three big bullet points to come out of yesterday’s City Council Transportation Committee hearing on Intro. 199, […]