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The exhibition, titled “Seeing Double,” will show a collection of paired prints at the Sweet Lorraine Gallery from both artists, who have both independently illustrated their different interpretations of famed and popular Brooklyn bars throughout their respective artistic careers. 

Like the rest of us, national treasure cartoonist Bill Roundy watched last week’s Council hearing debacle where the NYPD opposed a bill that would transfer its collision investigation responsibilities to the Department of Transportation, which would likely to conduct such investigations with a greater eye towards safety. But even as it opposed losing its Collision Investigation Squad, the NYPD also said it didn’t want the squad expanded so that it could investigate more than 1 percent of t...

Editorial cartoon of Bill Roundy by editorial cartoonist Bill Roundy. He has the rope! And the man is drowning in quicksand! So why are the governor, the mayor and the senator not telling him?! That, in a nutshell, is what all of us at Streetsblog have been feeling these past few weeks — as Gov. Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio and Sen. Chuck Schumer have had repeated opportunities to talk to President Biden about congestion pricing … and havefailedtodoso. Fortunately, we have cartoonist and national...

It doesn’t have to be this hard. The Department of Transportation has created amazing bus lanes and car-free busways — yet when it identifies a problem (as it has on Fordham Road), it still pauses and takes the long cut of delay, over-analysis and fake consensus building instead of just improving the lives of transit users. Well, our national treasure cartoonist, Bill Roundy, is sick of it. After reading our recent story on the DOT’s stall tactic on Fordham Road, he put pen (stylus?) to p...

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It’s our December donation drive. Your gift helps us do these kinds of important stories. So please click here. We all know the old novelty song, “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” — but what if it actually happened? Well, in this city, with this police force, that would mean immediately absolving the reindeer because, as you well know, drivers are almost never held accountable for killing people with their cars (as long as they weren’t drunk or driving with a suspended license). Ed...

It’s our December donation drive. Your gift helps us do these kinds of important stories. So please click here. Our editorial cartoonist was upset after reading our post about shoddy policing that absolved a driver off who had just rammed her car into a cyclist on the Second Avenue “protected” bike lane. Bill Roundy by Bill Roundy. And it made him wonder: Does the NYPD treat other crimes as if they are simply unavoidable “accidents”? Of course not. If someone uses a gun or a knife to ...