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Ideas
that shape the city's planning, housing, and development
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Julia
Vitullo-Martin
Director
Julia
Vitullo-Martin is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and
Director of the Center for Rethinking Development. Her work focuses
on development issues such as planning and zoning, housing, rent
regulation, environmental reviews, building and fire codes, and
landmark preservation.
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Hope
Cohen
Deputy
Director
Hope
Cohen is Deputy Director of the Center for Rethinking Development.
With over a decade of experience in New York City government at
the Department of Parks and Recreation and MTA New York City Transit,
she brings invaluable experience navigating the complex city bureaucracy
and an acute ability to solve complex problems by building consensus
among multiple stake-holders.
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FEATURED
TOPIC: TRAFFIC CONGESTION |
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CRD COMMENTARY
Tolls, Fees, and Fares by Hope
Cohen, April 2008
Clearing New York City Streets by Hope
Cohen, Gotham Gazette, 04-14-08
The Critics of Mayor's Toll Plan Get Silly by Hope
Cohen, New York Post, 03-31-08
A Simpler Alternative to Congestion Pricing by Hope
Cohen, Gotham Gazette, 01-07-08
Public Transit Should be Cheaper Option by Hope
Cohen, NY Metro, 08-06-07
Fill Potholes in Congestion Pricing Plan by Hope
Cohen, New York Daily News, 07-26-07
A
Solution to Crawling City Traffic? Not So Fast
by Julia Vitullo-Martin, The New York Times, 05-20-07
Improve
Transit Before Congestion Pricing by Hope Cohen,
Gotham Gazette, 05-07-07
Don't Wait for the Congestion Pricing Pilot: Fix Transit
Now!
by Hope Cohen, April 2007
Buses, Trains, and Automobiles by Hope Cohen,
December 2006
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TESTIMONY
Testimony of Hope Cohen before the City Council, March 24, 2008
Testimony of Hope Cohen before the Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission, January 16, 2008
Testimony Regarding Intro. 199
Testimony of Hope Cohen before the New York City Council
on traffic congestion, January 25, 2007
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PANEL DISCUSSION TRANSCRIPT
Road Pricing Worked in London. Can It Work in New York?
What New Yorkers Think, December 2006
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CRD
REPORT
Battling Traffic: What New Yorkers Think About Road Pricing
Transportation expert Bruce Schaller shows that New Yorkers
would embrace congestion pricing as part of a comprehensive
solution to traffic problems.
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PODCAST
Hope Cohen discusses congestion pricing
elaborating on a theme she discusses in the August
CRD newsletter
WHAT
THE PUBLIC SAID:
Finding
Ways to Ease the Gridlock Blues, New York Times,
12-24-06
OP-EDS:
No Parking, Ever,
Hope Cohen, NY
Times, 8-17-08
We
Will Clog You, By Bruce Schaller and Hope Cohen, NY
Times, 12-17-06
Congestion
Pricing And The Future Of NYC: Addressing The Objections,
By Bruce Schaller, Gotham Gazette, December 2006
WHAT
THE PRESS SAID:
New
York City Voters Oppose 'Congestion Pricing', Bloomberg
News, 01-18-07
In
Traffic's Jam, Who’s Driving May Be Surprising, New
York Times, 01-12-07
Kick
Out the Jams, Village Voice, 01-02-07
Some
wishes for the new year, The Villager, Editorial,
12-27-06
The
Road Not Taken, New York Sun, 12-22-06
Opposites
team up against gridlock, AM New York, 12-12-06
Are
Tolls the Fix in NYC?, Times Record Herald,
Editorial, 12-08-06
Transit
Officials Sour on Idea of Increasing Express Bus Service,
New York Sun, 12-08-06
Fees
To Ease Midtown Traffic Jams May Get a New Look From City
Hall, New York Sun, 12-04-06
Bigger
Push for Charging Drivers Who Use the Busiest Streets,
New York Times 11-27-06
Groups
Study Congestion Pricing for City, New York Sun
11-20-06
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The
Center
for Rethinking Development
(CRD) fosters a new understanding of the importance of development
to New York City's well-being. Focusing on such areas as zoning
and planning, environmental review, building codes, historic preservation,
and public housing, CRD conducts research, hosts forums, and offers
concrete, feasible proposals for reform.
The
city has adopted many of CRD's specific recommendations for zoning
changes. CRD's work on bottlenecks to building continues to frame
policy discussions in the development world—public, private,
and not-for-profit.
New
Yorkers have become far more development-friendly in the past few
years, but are rightly troubled about New York's decaying infrastructure—roads,
subways, bridges, tunnels—so necessary to support an expanding
city. The costs of housing—rehabilitation as well as new construction—worry
everyone concerned about keeping and attracting jobs and business.
CRD explains and makes a case for the importance of reconnecting
environmental reviews to infrastructural planning and implementation,
targeting incentives to neighborhoods that are still weak rather
than those that are strong, and tempering historic preservation
with economic reason. Addressing these common-sense concerns is
key to the city's future.
For
more information please contact Hope
Cohen
(hcohen@manhattan-institute.org), (212) 599-7000, fax (212) 599-3494.
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