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Archive for Robin Urban Smith
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Celebrate Bike Valet!
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After School with Livable Streets Education
Livable Streets Education brings real world issues into the classroom and the classroom out into the real world.
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Brian Lehrer Talks Streetfilms!
Hey Streetfilms Fans! After Brian Leher became a victim of bicycle theft earlier this week, he invited Hal Ruzel into the studio for some lessons in bike locking. You may remember Hal from such Streetfilms as Hal Grades Your Bike Locking 3: The Final Warning and Hal (and Kerri) Grade Your Bike Locking.
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Idle-Free NYC
Did you know that 25% of all New York City School children are affected by asthma? May 5th was World Asthma Day and Idle-Free NYC Day, and supporters gathered at City Hall to celebrate new legislation, Intro 631-A, that reduces the time a motor vehicle can idle in a school zone from three minutes to [...]
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Building Greenways and Community in the Bronx
The Bronx River Greenway and South Bronx Greenway plans apply community-driven design strategies to help undo years of top down, auto-centric planning and development in the Bronx. The greenways, when completed, will create a network of safe bicycle and pedestrian paths and routes, parks, and waterfront access points throughout the borough. See the Bronx [...]
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Straphangers Tell Albany to Save Transit
Straphangers from across New York City headed to Albany on Wednesday to meet with representatives and tell them: We can't afford the doomsday fare hikes and service cuts looming for our subways and buses, and we support bridge tolls as a fair and equitable solution to fund transit.
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Sign Now to Save Transit!
Queens transit riders oppose MTA fare hikes and service cuts and support bridge tolls.
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Enrique Peñalosa Brings Inspiration to Boston
Enrique Penalosa's four day visit to "The Hub," inspires Bostonians to re-imagine their streets.
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Streetfilms Spur Community Conversation
Streetfilms and the Livable Streets Initiative joined Manhattan Community Boards 2 and 4 and NYU's Office of Government and Community Affairs on Tuesday evening to present, A Streetfilms Festival: Selected Shorts on Community-Building Streets. Gracefully MC'ed by Shirley Secunda of Manhattan Community Board 2, the program placed emphasis on how individuals and communities can engage [...]
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Streetfilms on the Big Screen!
Manhattan Community Boards 2 & 4 and NYU's Department of Government and Community Affairs, are sponsoring a "Streetfilms Festival: Selected Shorts on Community-Building Streets," on Tuesday February 3 at NYU's Casa Italiana. DOT commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan will be introducing the films and other special guests will speak on a panel following. Click the [...]
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Daylighting: Make Your Crosswalks Safer
Daylighting is a simple pedestrian safety strategy which removes parking spaces surrounding an intersection in order to create better visibility for all street users and reduce the risk of conflict.
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Streetfilms Help New York to “Grow and Green”
The Museum of the City of New York debuted it’s exhibit, “Growing and Greening New York: PlaNYC and the Future of the City” last night, on an unusually balmy December evening.
The exhibit guides visitors through a 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekday, using elements of everyday life to help people explore, imagine and realize a [...]
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A New Vision for the Upper West Side
See how one community organized to create a plan for safer, healthier and more livable streets and public spaces.
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P.S. 76 Bike Rodeo
A Bronx elementary school implements a bike safety curriculum and celebrates its culmination with a good old-fashioned bike rodeo.
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Mobilized Moms for a Car-Free Central Park
A group of concerned Moms rally to get the word out, “No More Cars in Central Park!”
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Wikis Take Manhattan
Wiki and free-culture enthusiasts travel around the five boroughs to snap photos for use in Streetswiki and Wikipedia articles.
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The Prospect Park Youth Advocates
Four young Brooklynites launch an impressive summer-long campaign for a Car-Free Prospect Park.
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Queens Play Street
Watch what happens when one neighborhood in Queens closes its street to cars.
