Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Letitia James

Revealed: Council Member Tish James Tells Us Where She’s Been Biking

By Ben Fried | Aug 15, 2011 | 1 Comment

Streetsblog caught up with council members Tish James and Brad Lander for a few minutes at Saturday’s “Building Bridges Bike Day” in Grand Army Plaza. James and Lander represent districts with some of the highest bicycling rates in the city, and they’re getting some mileage out of the local bike infrastructure themselves: Lander arrived via bike, […]

Saturday: Tish James Gets the Word Out on Bike-Ped Unity

By Noah Kazis | Aug 11, 2011 | 2 Comments

Brooklyn Council Member Letitia James wants cyclists and pedestrians to get along. This Saturday, she’s hosting what she hopes will be the first annual “Building Bridges Bike Day” at Grand Army Plaza. Council members James, Steve Levin and Brad Lander will all be on hand Saturday, along with representatives from Transportation Alternatives and Recycle-A-Bicycle, to […]

LIRR’s Brooklyn Bunker: More Extreme Than NYPD Counterterror Guidelines

By Noah Kazis | Jan 21, 2010 | 36 Comments

Security barriers mar the Atlantic Terminal sidewalk. Image: Noah Kazis. Brooklyn’s new Long Island Rail Road terminal opened earlier this month to generally positive reviews for its airy interior. Outside the station? That’s an entirely different matter. The Brooklyn Paper called the "sarcophagus-sized slabs of stone" on the sidewalk — which nearly come up to […]

Tish James: We Need to Improve NYC’s Most Unreliable Bus, But…

By Ben Fried | Nov 6, 2009 | 19 Comments

Yesterday the Straphangers Campaign awarded Brooklyn’s B44 the Schleppie Award in recognition of its status as the most unreliable bus route in the city. Over 20 percent of B44 buses, which run on the Nostrand Avenue corridor, arrive either bunched together or very far apart. About 42,000 people endure the route’s maddening inconsistency every weekday. […]

Council Members Urge Bloomberg to Order Car-Free Prospect Park Trial

By Brad Aaron | Oct 7, 2008 | 5 Comments

Last month, as school-age volunteers presented 10,001 signatures in support of a car-free Prospect Park, three City Council Members — David Yassky, Bill de Blasio and Letitia James — issued a letter to Mayor Bloomberg requesting a three-month car-free pilot program. The full text appears below. The latest push to remove auto traffic from the […]

Bikes in Buildings: So Easy, So Effective

By Ben Fried | Sep 24, 2008 | 16 Comments

Front row l-r: Tish James, Paul Steely White, John Liu, David Yassky. Photo: Mike Infranco. With the fallout from Wall Street taking a toll on city coffers, Mayor Bloomberg has a lot of tough calls to make. The "Bikes in Buildings" bill [PDF] is not one of them. It’s a lay-up — a simple rule […]

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