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The 2026 Tom Kempner Street Fighter Award is presented to: Make McGuinness Safe Video by Luke Ohlson of 7Cinema #nyc

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The 2026 Streets for People Award is presented to: Meatpacking District Transformation Video by Luke Ohlson of 7Cinema #nyc

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Next up: a southbound protected bike lane connecting Union Square down to the Brooklyn Bridge 👷‍♂️ #nyc #zohranmamdani #bike #manhattan

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DOT's plan will make the Upper West Side safer, shortening crossing distances and reducing crashes. #nyc #manhattan #bike

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Why is State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie blocking the Stop Super Speeders bill? #nyc #stopsuperspeeders

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It's time to put the arch in the park! The Mamdani administration's redesign plan will do that. #nyc #brooklyn #prospectpark

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Ever notice how hard it is to find a safe route to bike south from Union Square? DOT’s redesign plan fixes that, with a 2-way protected bike lane on Lafayette and Fourth Avenue. #nyc #bike #manhattan

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Prospect Park only became car-free as recently as 2018. Now, everyone can look back and say: Why did we have cars in Prospect Park for so long? In a few years, people will say the same thing about ...

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When something’s going wrong in New York City, but it’s not an emergency, you call 311. Like, for example, if your street is blocked by double parking. And if you look at a map of 311 complaints, s...

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The New York State budget is due tomorrow, April 1. That means this is the most critical moment to pass Stop Super Speeders. Albany must slow down the most dangerous drivers and save lives. We went...

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When it comes to street safety, Mayor Mamdani understands that you have to address the root causes — the delivery companies themselves — instead of just throwing their workers into the criminal cou...

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Yesterday, the Mamdani administration announced that it’s finally ending the previous administration’s wrongheaded and bizarre targeting of New Yorkers on bikes. #nyc

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A new breed of tactical urbanism has sprung up across the U.S. -- and is transform city streets without the permission of city governments. Employing confrontational, illicit, and often illegal tac...

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Urban highways divided communities and destroyed neighborhoods. Now cities from Syracuse to San Francisco to Detroit are choosing to get rid of them altogether. And for the first time, new federal ...

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Economic pressures such as congestion pricing, changing real estate, and zoning within central business districts is reshaping mobility in American cities. This transition has the potential to rede...

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People with disabilities are disproportionately hurt and killed in car crashes in major cities. How can Vision Zero and public space planning center and include the needs of those who have disabili...

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Song: “Citibike” by Blaketheman1000 #nyc #bike #citibike

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With demand-based metered parking, New York City could ensure that there are always one to two open parking spots per block. #nyc

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