• 7th-gen. new yorker • member @bkcb02 • @LASchools, @NYCLabHS, & stanford cs & urban studies • maker of @HowsMyDrivingNY • eng. mngr. @petal • never a driver
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– 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.” – at Brooklyn, NY
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We’re glad to see @NYC_DOT proposing bus lanes for the B38 - 18,000 riders per day will see faster trips! 🚌
Back in the spring, local electeds signed a letter in support of improvements to Dekalb and Lafayette. Looking forward to seeing the red carpet rolled out this fall!
City to streamline B38 route in Brooklyn to increase bus speed nydailynews.com/2026/09/14/b…
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25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers.
As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other. Let us remember the extraordinary compassion, resilience and bravery that carried our city through its darkest
day.
Today, New York remembers. We will Never Forget.
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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.
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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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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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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“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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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.
Brian Howald retweeted
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.
Brian Howald retweeted
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.
Brian Howald retweeted
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.
Brian Howald retweeted
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
Brian Howald retweeted
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!
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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"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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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
Brian Howald retweeted
Here is @NMalliotakis calling 264,000 of her own constituents “criminals” and “fraudsters”.
Brian Howald retweeted
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?
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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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.