• 7th-gen. new yorker • member @bkcb02 • @LASchools, @NYCSchools, & stanford cs & urban studies • maker of @HowsMyDrivingNY • eng. mngr. @petal • never a driver
Joined April 2009
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29 Jan 2019
– A Typical New York Morning –
People who walk:
“Good morning, business owner!”
People who ride bikes:
“Good morning, business owner!”
People who ride transit:
“Good morning, business owner!”
People who drive:
“Parking here sucks. Fix it.”
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I had so much fun joining the parents and kids of the awesome @BergenBikeBus, along with @NYCMayor, @CMChiOsse, @CMCrystalHudson, and other supporters.
Excited for @NYC_DOT to make Bergen and Dean Streets safer for our kids and all of us.
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Feb 11
A discarded, contraflow bike sign lying in the slush and grime in a line of cars whose drivers have stolen the bike lane (for 15 days) because the parking lane has snow.
A perfect metaphor for a city whose snow response will inconvenience anyone but drivers.
ALT A “Do not enter, except bikes” sign lies in slush and grime in a parking lane in between two cars parked in a bike lane, while beyond and behind additional cars are parked in the bike lane. A wall of snow and ice partially blocks the parking lane.
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30 Oct 2025
Deeply saddened by the passing of the brilliant Dr. Arline Bronzaft: researcher, problem-solver, mentor, noise activist, friend, podcast guest ("Ask Arline"), and so much more. grownyc.org/blog/grownyc-rem…
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30 Oct 2025
R.I.Q. (Rest in Quiet) Arline Bronzaft, PhD & iconic antinoise scholar-campaigner. Her 1975 journal article finding learning deficits among schoolkids on the IRT side of PS 98 in Inwood led @NYCTSubway to cushion its rails with rubber pads, first nearby, later system-wide. 1/2
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21 May 2025
16 Jun 2022
“Propaganda queen!”👑Join the party now to comment in support of the DOT’s proposed protected bike lane from Atlantic Terminal to the start of the Brooklyn Navy Yard (aka Ashland/Navy) and the Gates Ave Pedestrian Plaza aka Apolline’s Garden zoom link here
madmimi.com/p/2e3f141/previe…
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13 May 2025
Thank you Senator @JabariBrisport for supporting Stop Super Speeders (S4045/A2299), which would put a speed limiter on the vehicles of the most reckless drivers. Just 1.5% of NYS vehicles get 6 speed camera tickets.
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18 Apr 2025
New Yorkers speak more than 200 languages! These maps show the most commonly spoken non-English and non-English, non-Spanish languages in each community district in NYC. #ImmigrantHeritageWeek
ALT Map showing the most commonly spoken non-English language in each community district. Spanish is the most commonly spoken language in the majority of community districts. Other top spoken languages include Mandarin, Russian, Haitian Creole, Yiddish, Italian and Korean. N Y C Health logo.
ALT Map showing the most commonly spoken non English, non-Spanish languages in each community district in NYC. These include Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Mandarin, French, Greek, Haitian Creole, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kru, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Yiddish. N Y C Health logo.
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11 Apr 2025
My hot take about him is I don’t really think he sucked that much and I find it odd that people feel so strongly that he did, given all the constituencies and pressures that an NYC mayor must answer to. It’s the worse job in America and he handled it well for what it demands.
10 Apr 2025
He sucked in a lot of ways but god do I miss Bill de Blasio so much.
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1/ Big news in road safety - Georgia just passed their #StopSuperSpeeders bill (HB308), becoming the 2nd U.S. state to use speed limiter tech for the state's most dangerous drivers. This is a major step in saving lives & stopping reckless driving.
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28 Mar 2025
We’re testing out a new display as well as a tool that allows you to drill into any ticket/violation/summons to give you more info (if it’s available).
The rollout is at ~25% of sessions, so you have a ~1/4 chance of seeing it.
ALT Mobile view of new display style for howsmydrivingny.nyc
ALT Mobile view of new violation details tool for howsmydrivingny.nyc
ALT Mobile wide view of new display style for howsmydrivingny.nyc
ALT Mobile wide view of new violation details tool for howsmydrivingny.nyc
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19 Mar 2025
I’ll be voting for @CMShahanaHanif! Hanif is being targeted by conservative democrats and republicans because she’s had the temerity to be a progressive Democrat. They hate that. They want her replaced with a more pliable council member. No!
18 Mar 2025
A new letter from Indivisible Brooklyn takes aim at GOP-aligned donors to Maya Kornberg. Plus, it notes Kornberg's connection to one of those donors is a lot closer than she let on to us back in December.
cityandstateny.com/politics/…
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15 Mar 2025
"no one has died" because of feeding USAID to the woodchipper, Elon claimed. In this devastating piece the NYT went out and learned some of their names and stories:
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28 Feb 2025
For anyone who still doesn't believe congestion pricing is working, we've compiled every publicly available data point into a handy tool!
Feel free to share if helpful ❤️🙏: riders.nyc/cp-stats
Post the substantiating stats.
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Brian Howald retweeted
26 Feb 2025
Here is @NMalliotakis calling 264,000 of her own constituents “criminals” and “fraudsters”.
26 Feb 2025
It’s clear that New York Democrats now want to protect Medicaid Fraudsters.
No surprise there…whether it’s foreign gang members, drug traffickers or repeat offenders, they are always protecting criminals!
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Brian Howald retweeted
26 Feb 2025
Enough with the gaslighting.
It is mathematically impossible to meet the requirements of the budget you voted for last night without gutting Medicaid.
In fact, you signed the below letter A WEEK AGO acknowledging that.
So were you lying then or are you lying now?
26 Feb 2025
This is a 100% LIE by my shameless colleague as the resolution doesn’t even mention Medicaid. If you have Medicaid, when you make a doctor’s appointment you’ll see for yourself. It’s sad & unfortunate this slimy Democrat would instill fear & anxiety in his constituents to score cheap political points.
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26 Feb 2025
Rep @NMalliotakis represents Staten Island in Congress. One in three of her constituents receives health care through Medicaid.
She voted LAST NIGHT to cancel the health insurance of 264,000 of her OWN constituents.
She's betraying the voters that sent her to Congress.
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24 Feb 2025
A simplistic attack on congestion pricing is that the 2025-29 MTA capital plan is still largely unfunded.
~$15B in bond repayments was to be raised by the tolls, paid back over ~15 yrs of collection.
Of course a revenue stream tapped for 15 yrs isn’t available 5 yrs in.
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24 Feb 2025
It’s like asking why you still need money to renovate the fixer-upper you just bought after using all of your raise from your promotion to buy a house with a 15-yr mortgage: that income is already tapped to pay the mortgage!
If you have other new expenses, you’ll need new money.
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24 Feb 2025
It also doesn’t account for program costs and mitigations, which I mistakenly assumed were budgeted for elsewhere.
24 Feb 2025
In January, the program raised $37.5 million to repair our public transit! And there are only five days left in February... Excited to see these numbers come in every month!
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