Letter to DOT Requesting a Sixth Avenue Bike Lane

May 1, 2024

bike lanes

2024.04.30_final_bottchersignon_6thavebikelane.pdf

Brooklyn Eagle: Brooklyn Bridge Protected Bike Lane Opens

September 14, 2021

This ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge opened the bridge’s long-awaited, two-way bike lane. Among those seen here are DOT Commissioner Hank Gutman (in sunglasses, toward center) Brooklyn Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon (second from left); Manhattan Councilmember Margaret Chin (next to her, holding up scissors); Brooklyn-Manhattan State Sen. Brian Kavanagh (second from right) and Brooklyn Councilmember Steve Levin. Photo courtesy of NYC DOT

Kavanagh Joins Krueger, Colleagues Calling for Denial of Permits for New Fossil Fuel Power Plants

September 13, 2021

Astoria Power Plant

NY Times: 800,000 New Yorkers Just Lost Federal Unemployment Benefits

September 7, 2021

“To just cut people off, it’s ridiculous and it’s unethical and it’s evil,” said Travis Curry, 34, a freelance photographer who will lose roughly $482 in weekly assistance. Credit: Rosem Morton for the NY Times.

NY1: Fighting to Keep New Yorkers in Their Homes, New York State Signs a New Eviction Moratorium into Law

September 5, 2021

New York Sen. Brian Kavanagh, D- New York, Manhattan debates legislation in the Senate chamber during a special legislative session to extend pandemic era eviction protections in the wake of a Supreme Court decision lifting the moratorium at the state Capitol, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)