HEROES
Janette Sadik-Khan
We sincerely hope that New York’s most influential and radical traffic theorist since Robert Moses has as broad and lasting an influence on the city’s livability as he did, no matter how many of her initiatives are in some way or another aimed at undoing his work. As the commissioner of an unusually proactive Department of Transportation, West Villager Sadik-Khan’s street engineering experiments boast a recurring European motif that prioritizes buses, pedestrians and cyclists over cars, which we find wonderful, but many motorists, predictably, see as proof that she is at best a communist and more likely a traitor. We prefer to think of her as Henry David Thoreau on a bike.
they just lost their lease, and need to find another….preferably in the immediate neighborhood, for not much money…
Mayor Bloomberg is in the picture but there isn’t anything written about him, how come?
His editing staff is still next to impeccable. I think you meant savvy.
In terms of heroes and villains, you have both in what’s going on with the 1-2-3 Community Space. You’ve written about the heroes, but there is also a villain, or rather villains. You can read about them on a blog set up to chronicle the eviction of 1-2-3 by money-grubbing landlords (I know, that’s redundant).
I think Bloomberg is on the cover as he’s referred to in the Reverend Billy editorial.
Thanks GOD this jackass is being called out. I’m glad to see the villains behind the villains called out.
Graydon Carter is a villain because time and age has given him a different perspective in life? Prepare author, for you too will in time (and with age) join the ranks of ‘villains’ everywhere. Unless you’re just so closed minded as to never change.
Also, when does libertarianism == ‘giving up’. That’s just reductionism.
You list Bloomberg as a villain but his traffic doyenne, Sadik-Khan, is a hero. And Billy Talen, no matter how well intentioned, is a clown.
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