David Yassky
Pro-Pricing PAC Puts Pols on Notice
De Blasio, Jeffries, Gerson, Millman: Will they tarnish their environmental records by voting against pricing?
March 27, 2008
Details of the Mayor’s Residential Parking Permit Proposal
Potential residential parking permit stickers, curbside regulations, and David Yassky.
March 12, 2008
David Yassky Supports Congestion Pricing
City Council Member David Yassky has come out in favor of congestion pricing, with the caveat that "many features of the Mayor's proposal will need to be reworked." Yassky's Brooklyn district, it's worth noting, encompasses three East River bridges, the Battery Tunnel and a seemingly endless number of of honking, spewing, frustrated motorists. Until last week, Yassky had been a long-time fence-sitter on the congestion pricing issue. Why did he finally commit? Last week Mayor Bloomberg announced that New York City's taxi fleet would be converted to all-hybrid vehicles by 2012. The Mayor was notably generous in crediting Yassky (twice, on national television, in the presence of Al Roker, no less) for conceiving of and fighting for the hybrid taxi initiative in City Council. Here's what Yassky wrote in an e-mail announcement to constituents:
May 29, 2007
Hail the Yassky Cab: All NYC Taxis to be Hybrid by 2012
The Today Show cast, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Yahoo! executive and Council Member David Yassky stand with a gas-electric hybrid Ford Escape SUV taxi this morning.
May 22, 2007
No Parking Slope
The B67 bus veers around a double-parked van blocking a car parked in front of a fire hydrant as a Bugaboo-pushing nanny strolls by Councilmember David Yassky and Transportation Alternatives director Paul Steely White calling for more sensible parking policy this afternoon in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
February 27, 2007