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• It was my first time even in a room with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire entrepreneur-turned-mayor, now flanked by six of his deputies, Knights of Camelot–style at an immense round table.
• I wanted to make bike riding a real, safe transportation option on New York’s mean streets.
• It stated a goal of reducing carbon emissions by 30 percent while improving the efficiency and quality of life in
• Postwar New York was built for a future that forgot its dense and lively urban origins.
• Streets are the social, political, and commercial arteries of cities. Such iconic addresses as Park Avenue, Champs-Élysées, Lombard Street, or Rodeo Drive identify social status. Streets mark political and cultural boundaries like 8 Mile Road in Detroit, Falls Road in Belfast, and the segregated roads of the West Bank.