The interview is up! - Great conversation about @streetfilms.bsky.social and the new documentary on @34ave.bsky.social! - See 11 minutes of footage including the first 4! - Get to see the much talked about @jimrockaway.bsky.social sequence w/bikes in his apartment! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klrz...

Clarence w/ Streetfilms Live on Active Towns

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Please join me LIVE on the @activetowns.bsky.social Friday 3pm (EST) where I will show a few clips from my 1+ hour documentary on @34ave.bsky.social open street & discuss the film w/John Simmerman (and take questions u all!) @nyc.streetsblog.org @openplans.org LINK: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klrz...

Clarence w/ Streetfilms Live on Active Towns

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NYC is the only place I've ever been where someone will confront you about THEIR illegal parking.

I appreciate @agounardes.bsky.social standing strong as the ONLY Dem in the entire New York State legislature to do the right thing and vote against enshrining operational inefficiency on the NYC Subway by banning OPTO expansion. If this bill becomes law, it’ll make IBX significantly less useful

Subway staffing: State Senate and Assembly pass transit union-backed bill to make two-person crews permanent | amNewYork

The state Senate and Assembly this week passed a measure that would require the MTA to maintain two-person train crews on every subway line that currently has

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If I'm Tern, Xtracycle, Gazelle, Aventon, Velotric, Lectric, etc. I would be getting way ahead of this, lobbying and educating elected officials, working with advocacy groups, running PSAs, etc.

Nuala O’Doherty-Naranjo + @jimrockaway.bsky.social are kind Queens souls who've humbly been getting many good things done for a long time. Glad to see them and this current project of theirs being recognized in this piece—which is also a great ad for why we should create more open streets in NYC.

Documented@documentedny.bsky.social · 4mo ago

These Queens organizers are putting on a monthly potluck series to bring new immigrants together with U.S. citizens.

Cumbia Sonidera on 34 Ave Open Streets.🔥💃🏽 Rain or shine, neighbors of all ages came out to move, connect & dance. Born in the working-class neighborhoods of Mexico City & Monterrey, Cumbia Sonidera blends Colombian rhythms, sonideros (DJs), & community into something full of joy and energy. 🎶

Gloves up. Heart rate up. Community strong. 💥💪 Another incredible FREE Boxing + Kickboxing class brought neighbors together to move, train, and challenge themselves right in the middle of Open Streets. Start your Saturday strong and join us next week. #34AveOpenStreets #BoxingClass #openstreets

Rain didn’t stop today’s 34 Ave World Ride.🌧️🚲 We biked to Bake & Shop in Elmhurst for coffee, tea, hot chocolate & pastries, then rode to Elmhurst Park, former home of the iconic gas tanks, and stopped at the Vietnam Memorial honoring 371 Queens residents. #34AveOpenStreets #ExploreQueens

imagine!

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.

The bike bus to the Mets / Yankees game is peak urban form

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @voteshekar.bsky.social and @votejgr.bsky.social are champions of parks and open space in Queens! So great to partner with them today to bring @ny4p.bsky.social Daffodil Project & Pollinator Day to @34_ave Open Street for the first time! @jimrockaway.bsky.social

What a biker actually hitting a pedestrian looks like

Laughing out loud. Of all of NY's transport operators to adopt through running, NYC Ferry would not have been the first one I'd have expected. www.ferry.nyc/blog/changes... Combining the Soundview and Rockaway routes—both of which are tourist heavy and struggle to operate on time—will be fun!

Changes are coming to NYC Ferry routes. We want your feedback! - New York City Ferry Service

Please complete the feedback form at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/nycferrychanges. Form closes on Labor Day, September 1st.   Have questions or want more information? Join us for a public meeting on...

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I would say CM Paladino should be speedily removed over this, but @council.nyc.gov did literally nothing after the first three instances of her doing shit, including implicitly endorsing killing DSA members, so outrageously offensive any other sane city council would kick her out in a nanosecond.

Goldstein@goldstein.latinsky.app · last yr.

Contact Speaker Adrienne Adams and tell her to remove Vickie Paladino from the New York City Council: 212-482-6731

Adrienne Adams could censure Vickie Paladino at any time and has certainly had multiple reasons to do so. And yet...

Goldstein@goldstein.latinsky.app · last yr.

Where is anyone getting this idea that he can't and he won't? We have masked secret police disappearing people right now. There's no can't or won't at this point. There's only what we as a society are willing to stand up and stop.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.

This is the threat of a wannabe dictator. Every freedom-loving American should be disgusted by it. /and no, he can’t do that, and he won’t. But it’s the fact that he thinks he can, could, and should that is the problem.

Nassau County failing to surprise once again

Nolan Hicks@ndhapple.bsky.social · last yr.

“A suburban New York county that recently barred residents from wearing masks is now making an exception for police officers so they can obscure their identities while helping the federal authorities detain immigrants.” — www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/n...

❤️ an incoming Mayor emphasizing the city’s power to improve & redesign streets. No new legislation, Council approval etc needed!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · last yr.

The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets. So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?

The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets. So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?

There is little outrage when drivers strike and kill people who are trying to cross the street. Our streets are designed to ferry as many vehicles as possible as fast as possible with no regard for pedestrians. How sad for these victims’ families. The devastation.. the loss.

NYPD: Hit-and-run kills 2 men in Sunset Park

The age and names of the victims have not been released.

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Our Afternoon on the Avenue series runs Monday thru Friday from 4pm to 8pm. We have fun activities for all ages. It’s free & open to all. Join us! Sponsored by the 34 Ave Open Streets Coalition. #OpenStreets #34AveOpenStreets #JacksonHeights #citiesforpeople

We were thrilled to have @aafenyc.bsky.social back on 34 Ave w/their tenant workshops. Today they covered what to do if your landlord isn’t performing needed repairs in your apartment. Each Wednesday at 3:30pm they will cover a different topic. #OpenStreets

Thursday on 34 Ave 3:30pm Hula Hooping & jump roping. 3:30pm Know Your Rights workshop focused on renters’ rights. 4:00pm to 8:00pm Non stop activities arts, crafts, games, etc. 4:00pm to 6:00pm ESL Conversation Club 4:00pm to 8:00pm Butterly Workshop Color & craft a butterfly 34 Ave & 93 St

Today on 34 Ave we had our misting & cooling station, kids water area, Lego, ping pong, jump rope & our ESL classes & much more. We are out Monday thru Friday from 4pm to 8pm. Sponsored by the 34 Ave Open Streets Coalition. #OpenStreets #34AveOpenStreets #coolingstation @34ave.bsky.social

We had fun today while it lasted! We had our new misting station set up. We got some games in, some hula, our English class and some pool time before Mother Nature sent everyone scattering! Happy 4th! We will be back Saturday with Zumba, our bike ride, Cumbia, gardening & bordado ecuatoriano.

Secret paramilitary police do not accumulate $170B in funding, extrajudicial power, and patrons proudly committed to brutality in order to not use that funding, power, protection, and brutality The next decade will be bloody, and when I’m right I won’t be happy

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history