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The Democrats Trying to Overturn an Election Russell Berman © Getty / The Atlantic A subversion of democracy. A brazen attempt to overturn the will of voters. Modern-day voter suppression. An 11th-hour bid to cling to power. These are all charges Democrats have leveled against President Donald Trump as he’s challenged the results of the election that will force him from office. They’re all also accusations Democrats have hurled at one another in New York City over the past...

It’s our December donation drive. Your gift helps us do these kinds of important stories. So please click here. What’s the path for street safety in New York City beyond Mayor de Blasio’s signature Vision Zero initiative? Streetsblog asked those who would lead the city beyond COVID-19 and Vision Zero to “think big” about the question. We asked: Is there a safety, design or enforcement strategy that is not being deployed that you think is vital to making our roadways, sidewalks and pu...

was born and raised. Residents in these neighborhoods face inordinate environmental health burdens. In 2012, Bushwick had more than twice as many avoidable asthma hospitalizations than Brooklyn did as a whole, according to a city report. Brownsville, where 78% of residents are Black, has the highest adult asthma rates in New York City. “There’s always been disinvestment in our communities,” Rodriguez says. “This is just gonna make it worse.” Street closures in Bushwick during National...

It’s our December donation drive. Your gift helps us do these kinds of important stories. So please click here. The NYPD acquitted itself badly during the Black Lives Matter protests of last summer, beating protesters (often with Trek bikes) and barricading precincts all over the city behind metal barriers that choked off streets and sidewalks. (Many barricaded precincts persist in this assault on New Yorkers’ mobility — months after the end of the protests.) This, after years of officers...

It’s our December donation drive. Your gift helps us do these kinds of stories. So please click here. With 211,038 crashes in the city in 2019, which killed 243 individuals and injured 61,265 (that’s an average of 578 crashes and 169 casualties a day, but who’s counting?), stopping reckless drivers from killing and maiming is an urgent public-health priority for the next mayor. So Streetsblog asked those who would lead us out of this crisis to detail their street-safety bona fides. Of the...

It’s our December donation drive. Your gift helps us do these kinds of important stories. So please click here. Federal, state and local candidates may join office-holders as varied as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President-elect Biden in signing the “No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge,” an initiative of a number of environmental organizations to build grassroots support for taking on the oil, gas and automotive-adjacent industries. It’s a pretty simple oath — “I pledge not to take co...

It’s our December donation drive. Your gift helps us do these kinds of important stories. So please click here. One day, with hope during our lifetimes, private cars will be banned from use in Manhattan south of a certain point (let’s go big and say 125th Street), a proposal that has already gained traction with a raft of urbanists. So what do those who would be New York’s next mayor have to say about the idea? Streetsblog asked 11 Democratic mayoral candidates (all except Ray McGuire res...

Cleaning New York Subways, Immigrant Workers Find Abuse Working for the MTA’s hired contractors, an immigrant workforce is exploited and harassed. Kevin Hagen/AP Photo Cleaning subway trains is one of the few jobs available to immigrant New Yorkers out of work at the height of the pandemic. “Good morning Mrs. Lucía, I wanted to let you know that I disagree with you denying me the opportunity to work, knowing that we’re in a pandemic, because I didn’t play along and flirt ...

Share via Shortlink Manhattan’s Paramount Group received an unsolicited takeover bid early last month for about two-thirds of what the company was worth prior to Covid. Just a few weeks later, the real estate investment trust’s board unanimously rejected the offer from activist investor Bow Street, noting that its offer was “inadequate and significantly undervalues” the office landlord run by Albert Behler. The hedge fund’s bid, however, was in line with Paramount’s stoc...

It’s our December donation drive. Your gift helps us do these kinds of important stories. So please click here. Attention, vehicle-owning freeloaders: Those vying to be our next mayor have very different — and much stronger — ideas about curbside uses than the current occupant of Gracie Mansion. In their answers to candidate questionnaire, 10 of the hopefuls jostling to succeed Bill de Blasio offered proposals including metering many of the city’s three million free parking spots, resid...