Here are our picks for the top stories that affected NYC and our state this year. It's been a very eventful year.
Car-Free Streets (on Three Saturdays), August: The Bloomberg administration continued its efforts to make the city more pedestrian and cyclist friendly, by adding more bike lanes and claiming street space for walkways. In an August experiment, Summer Streets, the city shut down five miles in Manhattan, from the Brooklyn Bridge, up Centre Street and Lafayette Street to Fourth Avenue and Park Avenue, for pedestrians, cyclists, Rollerbladers, and more, with yoga classes, music and dancing along the streets. The program was mostly well-received and the city says it will be brought back in 2009 in an expanded form. (Photograph by cafrizell on Flickr )






Every day I give thanks that my wife and kids are healthy and I still have a desk waiting for me. Good luck to you all in 2009!
Thank you for a Year in Review that didn't make me want to barf. Here's to 2009!
You missed the best story of the year... How can you not include the President's near death by shoe? Love him or hate him that had to be one of the top three by my estimate.