Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Gale Brewer

Developers Adding More Parking Than They’re Supposed To, Thanks to DCP

By Stephen Miller | Jul 24, 2015 | 2 Comments

For years, the City Planning Commission approved special permits that let developers in Hell’s Kitchen and Chelsea get around limits on parking construction in the Manhattan core. Recently, the city implemented a new formula that reformers hoped would curtail these permits. But Community Board 4, Council Member Corey Johnson, and Borough President Gale Brewer say the city’s math […]

13 State and City Elected Officials Sign On to Move NY Toll Reform

By Stephen Miller | Apr 22, 2015 | 2 Comments

The trickle of elected officials endorsing toll reform is starting to become more of a steady stream, and a look at who belongs to the coalition suggests that the politics of the Move NY plan are indeed different than the politics of congestion pricing. More than a dozen state and city elected officials announced today that they […]

Gale Brewer Reappoints Safe Streets Foes to Manhattan Community Boards

By Brad Aaron | Apr 21, 2015 | 32 Comments

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer has reappointed a slate of community board members with a long history of opposing safer streets and better transit. Brewer announced her 2015 board appointments on Monday. Among those granted another two-year term was Community Board 7’s Dan Zweig. Zweig was recommended by Council Member Helen Rosenthal and reappointed by Brewer despite […]

Will Rodriguez and Brewer Reappoint CB 12 Crank Jim “Honey Child” Berlin?

By Brad Aaron | Mar 6, 2015 | 4 Comments

City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer can remove a barrier to safer streets in Upper Manhattan by relieving Jim Berlin of his spot on Community Board 12, which covers Washington Heights and Inwood. As Stephen Miller reported Thursday, Berlin and fellow CB 12 member Anita Barberis voted against a DOT […]

United Front of Electeds Join CB 3 to Ask for Protected Bikeway on Chrystie

By Stephen Miller | Mar 6, 2015 | 6 Comments

A week after Manhattan Community Board 3 unanimously approved a resolution asking for a protected bike lane and pedestrian islands on Chrystie Street, elected officials representing the area — from the city, state, and federal levels — sent a letter to DOT Manhattan Borough Commissioner Margaret Forgione asking her to follow through [PDF]. The letter […]

UWS Residents to Brewer: No More Street Safety Obstructionists on CB 7

By Stephen Miller | Feb 9, 2015 | 17 Comments

Will Gale Brewer reappoint noted street safety obstructionist Dan Zweig to Community Board 7? Families of traffic violence victims came to her State of the Borough address yesterday seeking an answer. Protesters stood outside Columbia University’s Alfred Lerner Hall with signs — “Gale, You Have the Power to Fix CB 7” and “Lives Matter More Than Parking […]

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