Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Gale Brewer

Streetfilms: Yesterday’s Traffic Relief Rally at City Hall

By Alec | | 1 Comment
Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief Press Conference A few quick scenes from yesterday’s event Running time: 2:02 "As this city is booming, it’s not moving," lamented City Councilmember Gale Brewer outside City Hall yesterday. But with support from 125 civic groups in five boroughs, the Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief assembled behind her and outlined […]

Traffic Relief Rally at City Hall This Morning

By Aaron Naparstek | | No Comments
Councilmember Gale Brewer joined Transportation Alternatives and representatives of community groups from all over the city at this morning’s Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief rally on the steps of City Hall. The Coalition currently includes 129 community organizations. These organizations have signed on to a petition calling on the Bloomberg Administration to devlop "a comprehensive traffic […]

Measuring Street Performance

By Aaron Naparstek | | 4 Comments
Council member Gale Brewer of Manhattan’s Upper West Side has introduced a new piece of legislation that would compel New York City’s Department of Transportation to completely re-conceive of the way it measures and evaluates its own performance and the performance of the city’s streets. Currently, DOT’s metrics are set up mainly to measure the […]