Op-Ed: Making Black Lives Matter in Street Safety
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Our racial-equity lens must foster real policies that can be regularly evaluated and measured.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Public Space
Op-Ed: It’s Time to Legalize Public Drinking
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Those with fair skin in affluent ZIP codes will continue to drink with their friends in the streets, while minorities will be subject to arbitrary harassment and summonses for doing the same. This needs to stop.
Op-Ed: Whose Streets? Our Streets!
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At the heart of the protests is a demand for the end of racist policing of public space. Will our leaders stop the carnage?
Op-Ed: Let People March In the Streets
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We must recognize the ad-hoc nature of the urban streetscape. Yes, our avenues can move bicycles, busses, trucks, cars and pedestrians but they can also propel our democracy.
Restaurants Want Open Streets to Start NYC’s Revival
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"This could be the best block party in the history of New York, but if we don't get this right in the next three months, there will be a complete collapse of the tax base of the city," says a restaurant industry leader.
The Social Distance Machine: NYC Edition
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Check out our latest music video depicting Streetsblog Editor Gersh Kuntzman showing how difficult it is to walk around his Brooklyn neighborhood yet maintain six feet of space from everyone else.