Recent Streetsblog USA posts about New York

The 5 Cities Where It’s Easiest — and Hardest — to Walk to the Grocery Store

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 27, 2014 | 16 Comments

Walk Score has put together a new ranking of the best and worst American cities for walkable access to food. The above visualization contrasts New York, city with the best access, and Indianapolis, which brought up the rear in Walk Score’s ratings. Walk Score used its algorithm to cross-reference millions of walking routes with its […]

If Your Local Elites Have Gone Completely Bonkers, You May Have Bikelash

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 5, 2014 | No Comments

With a cry of “Code Red Bikelash! Code Red Bikelash!”, “doctors” Aaron Naparstek (founding editor of Streetsblog) and Doug Gordon (blogger at BrooklynSpoke) dashed into the most fun panel the National Bike Summit has probably ever seen. In their presentation, “Moving Beyond the Bikelash” — a play on the overall Summit theme of “Moving Beyond […]

Families of NYC Traffic Violence Victims Band Together for Safer Streets

By Ben Fried | Feb 25, 2014 | No Comments

On Sunday, New Yorkers who’ve lost loved ones to traffic violence gathered on the steps of City Hall in Lower Manhattan to launch Families for Safe Streets, a new initiative advocating for street designs and traffic enforcement that will save lives. In this moving Streetfilm, members of Families for Safe Streets talk about their goals […]

Long Island Lawmaker to Injured Mom: No One Should Ride Bikes Here

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 13, 2014 | 19 Comments

After his mother was hit by a driver while riding her bicycle, 17-year-old Matthew Cutrone appealed to local lawmakers with a pretty reasonable request: consider adding bike lanes. But this story only goes downhill from there. Matthew and his mother, Sandy, were shocked when they received a response from Suffolk County legislator Thomas Barraga saying […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Vision Zero

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 22, 2014 | 1 Comment

The best thing about hosting a Streetsblog podcast is getting to call on other Streetsblog reporters for the lowdown on the biggest news of the week. In this case, Jeff Wood and I called Ben Fried, Streetsblog’s editor-in-chief based in New York, to provide some context for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s big announcement […]

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