I live in one of the new buildings in the Port Morris/Mott Haven section of the South Bronx. Yes, near the ones that you can see from your Metro-North train or from across the Harlem River. In this blog post,…
Times Square used to be filled with cars. So was Central Park. Today, having cars dominate either of these seems stupid. Because it is. Central Park is much more pleasant when you hear birds chirping instead of engines revving, and…
On Manhattan’s Third Avenue in the Upper East Side and East Harlem, I biked through 40 green lights in a row. That’s because, when the city put in a new protected bike lane starting at 59th St, they also retimed…
In the fall of 2019, I was living five blocks from Union Square when New York City banned most private cars from 14th Street. The “14th Street busway,” as it became known, turned the two-way crosstown artery into a bus,…
I’m going to let you in on all my tips for one of the most difficult transit journeys out there: getting to and from Newark Airport. To and from New York, Newark Airport is the least transit-accessible of the three…
We should remove urban highways, not expand them. Doing the latter is continuing to double down on the worst city planning mistakes of the 20th century. Yet right now, New York State, through the Cross Bridges Project, is trying to…
If you’re trying to travel between New York City and Hartford, Connecticut car-free, you have several options. I’ve done them all. I’ve been living car-free for six years and spend a lot of time navigating the quirks of U.S. transportation….