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Aaron Naparstek

Aaron Naparstek is a journalist, author and community organizer working on urban environmental issues in New York City. He works for the Open Planning Project where he is editor-in-chief of StreetsBlog.org. He is the author of Honku: The Zen Antidote for Road Rage, a book of humorous haiku poetry inspired by the unique brand of motorist sociopathy observed from his apartment window. Naparstek lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons. He is a founder of the Park Slope Neighbors community group and an organizer of the Grand Army Plaza Coalition.
aaron@naparstek.com

Posts by Aaron

• 2010

• Jan 19: Naparstek Steps Down as Editor-in-Chief of Streetsblog 0

• 2009

• Jun 26: The House is Debating its Climate Legislation Right Now 0
• Jun 25: Live Webcast: Environment & Public Works Committee Hearing 0
• Jun 11: Tweeting Live from the Congress for the New Urbanism in Denver 0
• May 26: The Crossroads of the World Goes Car-Free 29
• May 14: LaHood to Streetsblog: No, I’m Not Changing the Name of My Blog 21
• May 06: Will Barbara Boxer Stand Up for Sustainable Transportation? 1
• Feb 03: Stimulus + Mass Transit = Opportunity 3
• Jan 21: The Last Thing This Nation Needs 21

• 2008

• Dec 18: Same.gov: A Transportation Secretary Who’s Hard to Believe In 25
• Dec 17: Done Deal: Obama Picks LaHood as Transpo Secretary 19
• Nov 20: Dingell Wanes as Waxman Takes Over Energy and Commerce 4
• Oct 31: Newt Gingrich: I Vant to Suck Your Oil 12
• Sep 29: Gasoline-Starved Atlantans Twitter for Gallons 9
• Sep 29: Jim Kunstler on the Bail Out and What’s Next 9
• Sep 17: Culture War on Wheels 18
• Sep 02: Cartoon Tuesday: Back to School 0
• Aug 26: Cartoon Tuesday: Conventional Wisdom 0
• Aug 06: Energy Policy Straight Talk From Elizabeth Kolbert 7
• Jul 29: Cartoon Tuesday: The Elegant Simplicity of the Free Market 0
• Jul 29: The U.S. Wants to “Borrow” From Transit to Pay for Highways 16
• Jul 25: $36,000,000,000 for Corn. $0 for Transit. 16
• Jul 25: The Pentagon Burns 395,000 Barrels of Oil Per Day 6
• Jul 23: Livable Streets Projects Getting Hung Up in Budget Bureaucracy? 2
• Jul 21: Al Gore Connects the Dots 32
• Jul 18: Richard Florida: Decline of the Burbs is Not Just About Gas Prices 9
• Jul 17: Touring the East Side Access Tunnel, Surrounded By Schist 20
• May 20: Chrysler: Let’s Ruin America! 40
• May 05: Sign a Petition to Clinton and McCain at GasTaxScam.com 2
• Apr 04: If Congestion Pricing Fails, Rest Assured, There’s Always Plan B 8
• Mar 12: Details of the Mayor’s Residential Parking Permit Proposal 52
• Feb 27: The Definition of Automobile Dependence 8
• Feb 22: Today’s McMansions, Tomorrow’s Tenements 19
• Feb 12: London Imposes $50 Guzzler Fee on SUVs and Lux Roadsters 12
• Feb 05: Who is the Livable Streets Candidate? 13
• Jan 22: Masdar: Arabic for Chutzpah? 54
• Jan 11: Hans Monderman: In Memoriam 0
• Jan 08: Hans Monderman, Engineer of Livable Streets, 1947-2008 5

• 2007

• Dec 10: This Holiday Season London’s Streets Are “Absolutely Jammed” 26
• Dec 10: Is America Finally Getting Interested in Passenger Rail? 18
• Dec 10: More Boring Photos 6
• Nov 19: Wall Street Journal Declares Peak Oil No Longer a “Fringe” Idea 11
• Nov 12: Congestion Pricing Will Make You Happy 14
• Nov 08: DOT Rolls Out the New Lower Manhattan Crosstown Bike Route 6
• Nov 07: StreetFilms: Upper West Side Streets Renaissance With Jan Gehl 9
• Nov 06: Envisioning an Upper West Side Streets Renaissance 38
• Nov 06: Tune in to Brian Lehrer at 10:40am, WNYC, 93.9 FM 5
• Nov 05: Gehl on Wheels 9
• Nov 02: “A Perverse Allocation of Public Space on the Upper West Side” 2
• Nov 02: Fact Check: Congestion Pricing is Not a “Regressive Tax” 12
• Nov 02: Bloomberg Declares Support for a National Carbon Tax 7
• Oct 31: RSVP Today to Re-Imagine Manhattan’s Upper West Side 2
• Oct 31: Jan Gehl: Half of Manhattan Trips Could be Done by Bike 1
• Oct 10: Kunstler: Parking Plans Are Based on “Faulty Assumptions” 22
• Oct 08: 1,200 Pack Town Hall for “How New Yorkers Ride Bikes” 5
• Sep 27: Meat Market Plaza is Open for Business 7
• Sep 20: NYC Gets Its First-Ever Physically-Separated Bike Path 137
• Sep 18: Congestion Pricing Q&A With Rohit Aggarwala, Part 2 6
• Sep 14: German Town Chooses Human Interaction Over Traffic Signals 8
• Sep 07: Pedestrian Safety Tips & Anti-Pricing Talking Points From AAA 22
• Aug 13: More on Rep. Patrick McHenry 3
• Aug 06: New Blog Focuses on Tearing Down the “Highway to Nowhere” 7
• Aug 03: Grist: NYC is Not One of the World’s Greenest Cities 56
• Jul 30: Sadik-Khan: Many Initiatives Are Under Way… 7
• Jul 26: Count SUVs for the Brian Lehrer Show Today 2
• Jul 18: NYC’s Greenest Building Cracks Down on Bikes (Updated) 32
• Jul 18: Who Better Represented “the Little Guy” in the Pricing Debate? 22
• Jul 07: 7/7/07: The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook 8
• Jul 03: Good Stuff in This Week’s Mobilizing the Region 7
• Jun 20: Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan 20
• Jun 19: New “Bike Boxes” Send Cyclists to the Front of the Line 32
• Jun 15: Andy Wiley-Schwartz Starts at DOT on Monday 7
• Jun 12: DOT: Bergtraum to CUNY, Primeggia to Copenhagen 5
• May 29: David Yassky Supports Congestion Pricing 12
• May 22: Hail the Yassky Cab: All NYC Taxis to be Hybrid by 2012 20
• May 18: John Liu Says He Supports Congestion Pricing 38
• May 10: There Are Certain Facts That We’ve All Got to Face Up To 4
• May 01: PlaNYC Team Releases Transportation Technical Report 7
• Apr 17: Pedi Politics 6
• Apr 11: We Must Imagine a Future Without Cars 7
• Apr 06: Resolved: More Traffic Congestion & Automobile Dependence 7
• Mar 26: City Council Fiddles While New York City Chokes on Traffic 27
• Mar 16: Doctoroff Sets Stage for Something Bold, Creative & Expensive 10
• Mar 14: Defending “The Bailey’s” Right to Kung Pao Chicken and an SUV 9
• Mar 13: PlaNYC 2030 Project “Tearing Things Up” at City Hall 6
• Mar 01: There’s No Such Thing as “Free Parking” 20
• Feb 27: No Parking Slope 27
• Feb 12: Gridlock Sam: Avert Climate Catastrophe, Ride a Vespa® 30
• Feb 09: Streetfilms: “A City Is a Means to a Way of Life” 0
• Jan 29: New York City 2030. London Today. 2
• Jan 22: Launching the Campaign for Carbon Taxes 4
• Jan 16: PLANYC 2030 Community Leader Meetings 2
• Jan 16: Uncool New York: NYC Lags in Combatting Climate Change 2
• Jan 10: Making Hell’s Kitchen Less Hellish 20

• 2006

• Dec 22: New German Community Models Car-Free Living 2
• Dec 19: Did a Blogger’s Big Scoop Stall “Atlantic Yards?” 8
• Dec 14: Streetfilms: Curbing Cars in Soho 6
• Dec 14: Rethinking Soho 47
• Dec 14: Are Old-Line Environmentalists Asleep at the Wheel? 46
• Dec 13: Futurama 2030 Speech: News Round-Up 1
• Dec 11: Mayor Bloomberg Sustainability Speech Tomorrow 4
• Dec 08: Seoul’s New Heart 10
• Dec 05: File Under: No Wonder New York City is Falling Behind London 7
• Nov 15: Mayor Livingstone: $50 to Drive an SUV into Central London 18
• Nov 14: Rumor Mill: Sustainability Announcement Tomorrow 30
• Nov 08: Car-Free Manhattan: Just Wait 100 Years 1
• Nov 02: London Calling. Are New York’s Leaders Really Listening? 5
• Oct 23: The Tour de Bronx 11
• Oct 04: Notes on Bicycling in Copenhagen 18
• Sep 29: Blogging From Copenhagen 3
• Sep 21: Bloomberg Sustainability Announcement 8
• Sep 20: State of California Sues Carmakers on Climate Change 4
• Sep 14: Streetsblog Interview: Ryan Russo 10
• Sep 13: Bill Clinton’s Reading List: Richard Heinberg 2
• Sep 06: Richard Heinberg: Saudi Oil Supply May be Crashing 10
• Aug 16: Sneak Preview of Bloomberg’s 21st Century Urban Vision 16
• Aug 14: Hillary Feels Staten Island’s Pain on Traffic 3
• Aug 07: Bloomberg on Oil Dependence: Punditry or Policy? 1
• Aug 01: No Wonder the NYPD is Cracking Down on Bikes 0
• Jul 28: We’re in Good Hands With Allstate 0
• Jun 29: Traffic Signal. Berlin, Germany. 1
• Jun 29: Car Ownership Cost Calculator 0
• Jun 28: Charles Komanoff’s “Fuel Tax Magic” 0
• Jun 27: This is What a Bike-Friendly City Looks Like 21