Jacob deCastro

With the state's outdated FAR cap finally gone, we were able to DOUBLE the amount of housing in our proposal for Midtown South.

10,000 new homes in the heart of Manhattan — let's make it happen!

Business foot traffic is up within the congestion pricing zone A million more people visited the city’s Business Improvement Districts in Manhattan below 60th Street in January.

"More people visited the Business Improvement Districts within Manhattan’s congestion relief zone in January than during the same month last year, dispelling some business owners’ fears that the toll would deter visitors to Manhattan’s core, according to [EDC]" www.crainsnewyork.com/transportati...

evergreen

pickup truck parked on sidewalk

I would like my council member to be notified every time sidewalk space is repurposed as car parking

we all do!

thank you!!

It sure has been an exciting first week on the communications team at @nycplanning.bsky.social 🥳

Huge congrats to everyone who got City of Yes to the finish line. We can and must fix the housing shortage — and today’s vote is a huge step forward!

subway diagram on a screen in a station

so is this officially the new subway map?

Dining Sheds Changed the N.Y.C. Food Scene. Now Watch Them Disappear. Street side sheds and shanties helped keep restaurants afloat during the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, for better or worse, new city rules are forcing their removal.

Actual lol that the City Council killed 91% of the street dining program through its “compromise”

This is such an unserious city

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Green fluid in subway tracks

wicked promo out of control

Making it more expensive to live in New York. Great work 🙄

America needs to adjust safety standards to align with Europe so that we can have rolling stock with doors on the outside. That means big windows and big doorways.

inside of a DC 7000 series rail car

the R211 trains are nice but I wish they had big windows like on DC’s trains

my 2024 lyft-run bike share tour lol

✅ DC
✅ San Francisco
✅ Boston
✅ Chicago
✅ NYC

with bonus points to cdmx’s ecobici that lyft helped build

it’s so good

dc i was not familiar with your game

I'll miss working with this team — especially the comms team — our partners, our volunteers, and the reporters on the beat.

More to say soon about what's next for me, but I'll still be in this fight as a volunteer activist.

See ya soon!

And within TA, we fought at the bargaining table to win a strong new contract with UAW Local 2110 to protect the organizers, comms pros, fundraisers, social workers and designers that make this work possible.

And there is no organizing team like ours.

@kathyparkprice.bsky.social, @lashepard221.bsky.social, and everyone else that isn't on this platform yet are organizing for safer, more equitable streets in every borough despite all the challenges and obstacles.

TA's research team is the best in the business.

Together, we built the *only* tracker of serious injuries from traffic violence in New York City:

Protected Bike Lane Tracker – Transportation Alternatives Mayor Eric Adams promised to install 300 miles of protected bike lanes by the end of his first term in 2025. The NYC Streets Plan requires New York City to install at least 30 miles of protected bike ...

For three years, @brandonwc.bsky.social has been tracking the installation of protected bike lanes across New York City.

I'm so grateful to have worked on this website to track City Hall's progress and hold the mayor accountable:

I am so proud to have worked with @familiesforsafestreets.org members, my colleagues and volunteer activists to:

✅ Win Sammy's Law
✅ Secure $900 million for the NYC Streets Plan
✅ Expand speed safety cameras

And so much more!

And I am so glad to end on an optimistic note: Congestion pricing is BACK 🤞

Alongside thousands of New Yorkers, we fought for congestion pricing because it will make our city stronger — and before we know it, we'll wonder how we ever went without it.

Some news: Today is my last day @transalt.org after 3.5 exciting, challenging, and inspiring years.

I am so grateful to have worked with an incredible team of people that care deeply about making New York City a better, stronger, and more resilient place.

i don't even know how to respond to good news anymore, but this is *very good news*

we can't even get real BRT in new york :(

but for real this time 🤞

Trump’s Election Means It’s Now or Never for Congestion Pricing Three billion dollars in federal matching funds will likely evaporate after January 20.

NEW COLUMN: On Trump, congestion pricing, and the irony that one of the best tools that we have to battle inflation — our transit system — is likely to be the hit the hardest by his return to the White House -- www.curbed.com/article/trum...

Gonna try using this more! 👋