Movement: A Conversation with Nicole Gelinas
A well respected urban writer who has focused on New York’s transportation system for more than a decade, author Nicole Gelinas resumes the story where Robert Caro’s landmark The Power Broker ended. Movement explores how, in the half-century leading up to the COVID- 19 pandemic, New York’s re-embracement of its mass-transit system and a livable streetscape helped save the city. Gelinas tackles the 1970s environmental movement, the 1980s rebuilding of the subways, and more contemporary battles, from Mayor Bloomberg’s push for more pedestrian plazas and bike lanes in the early 2000s, to transportation advocates’ protests to prevent traffic deaths in the Mayor de Blasio era of the 2010s, to how New York’s stewardship of its streets and subways have played a critical role during the 2020 pandemic and subsequent recovery.
Join FOLCS virtually on Monday, December 2, at 7pm ET for a Conversation on Movement with Nicole Gelinas.
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Nicole Gelinas
Journalist, Editor, Author
Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a columnist at the New York Post. She writes on urban economics, infrastructure, and finance. Gelinas is a CFA charterholder and the author of the forthcoming Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back its Streets from the Car (November 2024). Gelinas has published analysis and opinion pieces in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. Gelinas holds a B.A. in English literature from Tulane University.