NYC Green Carts: Improving Health or Hurting Small Businesses?

In March of last year, Mayor Bloomberg signed a law establishing 1,000 new permits for Green Carts, which are mobile carts that sell fresh fruits and vegetables in selected New York City neighborhoods. Now the Green Cart vendors are hitting the streets in low-income areas of all five boroughs. According to a recent New York [...]

Care Free Broadway?

Car Free Broadway, the latest in a number of initiatives by Mayor Bloomberg’s administration that are transforming New York City streets, started this week. Most reviews of the new Broadway have been very positive (unless, as Gothamist notes, you are the New York Post). According to the city, the plan will improve traffic [...]

Bloomberg Launches NYC Service

Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg announced the launch of NYC Service, a new initiative that aims to answer President Obama’s call to service. The initiative includes a website, nycservice.org, which allows individuals to search for local volunteer opportunities related to strengthening communities, helping neighbors in need, education, health, the environment, and emergency preparedness. It also includes an [...]

Visualizing PlaNYC

Do you know about PlaNYC? For a while it was one of those names that I would always hear kicking around, but I never knew any details about it. Well, I looked into it and it turns out that it’s kind of a big deal.
Luckily, it’s easy to learn about! The NYC government website for [...]

Mayor Bloomberg Announces Language Access Initiative

Though it is home to more than 100 different nationalities and languages, New York City has done little to ease the language barrier to improve access to many of the city’s resources. Until recently city agencies offered little literature on services that was translated to a language other than English. In a city where less [...]