Peter Norton
@norton.bsky.social
Historian; author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, and of Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving.
Affordable public transportation is not a new issue in New York.
In 1906, when a judge said the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company could not charge passengers a second 5-cent fare to reach Coney Island, passengers refused to pay it. ...
In 1906, when a judge said the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company could not charge passengers a second 5-cent fare to reach Coney Island, passengers refused to pay it. ...
November 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Affordable public transportation is not a new issue in New York.
In 1906, when a judge said the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company could not charge passengers a second 5-cent fare to reach Coney Island, passengers refused to pay it. ...
In 1906, when a judge said the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company could not charge passengers a second 5-cent fare to reach Coney Island, passengers refused to pay it. ...
“Rosie Zeits, five years old, who was riding to Coney Island to join her mother and sisters, and had only five cents to pay her fare, was asked for the extra nickel by the conductor of the car. She began to cry and said she had no more money. ... ”
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“Rosie Zeits, five years old, who was riding to Coney Island to join her mother and sisters, and had only five cents to pay her fare, was asked for the extra nickel by the conductor of the car. She began to cry and said she had no more money. ... ”
Lillian Wald on the right to (get out of) the city:
“Ten cents for a ride to Coney Island practically closes that resort to the families I have in mind.”
Wald founded the Henry Street Settlement and was a founding member of the NAACP. She was a suffragist and a pioneer of public health nursing.
“Ten cents for a ride to Coney Island practically closes that resort to the families I have in mind.”
Wald founded the Henry Street Settlement and was a founding member of the NAACP. She was a suffragist and a pioneer of public health nursing.
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Lillian Wald on the right to (get out of) the city:
“Ten cents for a ride to Coney Island practically closes that resort to the families I have in mind.”
Wald founded the Henry Street Settlement and was a founding member of the NAACP. She was a suffragist and a pioneer of public health nursing.
“Ten cents for a ride to Coney Island practically closes that resort to the families I have in mind.”
Wald founded the Henry Street Settlement and was a founding member of the NAACP. She was a suffragist and a pioneer of public health nursing.
Reposted by Peter Norton
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗭𝗮𝗴 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁: 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 🚀
Today, we’re excited to reveal the 2nd annual edition of The Zag List, doubling our spotlight to 100 trailblazers driving the global shift toward cleaner, safer and more connected mobility worldwide.
See the Zag100 here: zagdaily.com/featured/the...
Today, we’re excited to reveal the 2nd annual edition of The Zag List, doubling our spotlight to 100 trailblazers driving the global shift toward cleaner, safer and more connected mobility worldwide.
See the Zag100 here: zagdaily.com/featured/the...
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗭𝗮𝗴 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁: 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 🚀
Today, we’re excited to reveal the 2nd annual edition of The Zag List, doubling our spotlight to 100 trailblazers driving the global shift toward cleaner, safer and more connected mobility worldwide.
See the Zag100 here: zagdaily.com/featured/the...
Today, we’re excited to reveal the 2nd annual edition of The Zag List, doubling our spotlight to 100 trailblazers driving the global shift toward cleaner, safer and more connected mobility worldwide.
See the Zag100 here: zagdaily.com/featured/the...
The New York Evening World’s reply to Henri Lefebvre, six decades in advance:
The right to the city includes the right to get out of the city.
Here the World condemns the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for demanding two five-cent fares for service to Coney Island.
The right to the city includes the right to get out of the city.
Here the World condemns the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for demanding two five-cent fares for service to Coney Island.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The New York Evening World’s reply to Henri Lefebvre, six decades in advance:
The right to the city includes the right to get out of the city.
Here the World condemns the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for demanding two five-cent fares for service to Coney Island.
The right to the city includes the right to get out of the city.
Here the World condemns the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for demanding two five-cent fares for service to Coney Island.
La « vérité » d’une question sociale et scientifique ... se construit de façon plurielle. La sécurité routière n’y échappe en rien et emblématise même ce processus multifactoriel de construction de savoir.
— Mathieu Flonneau
— Mathieu Flonneau
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
La « vérité » d’une question sociale et scientifique ... se construit de façon plurielle. La sécurité routière n’y échappe en rien et emblématise même ce processus multifactoriel de construction de savoir.
— Mathieu Flonneau
— Mathieu Flonneau
In other forms, demands for fare-free public transit have a long history. In New York their ancestor is the demand for the fixed, five-cent fare. In 1900, when the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company began charging a second nickel to passengers going to Coney Island, many New Yorkers objected.
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
In other forms, demands for fare-free public transit have a long history. In New York their ancestor is the demand for the fixed, five-cent fare. In 1900, when the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company began charging a second nickel to passengers going to Coney Island, many New Yorkers objected.
100 years ago, John F. Hylan was mayor of New York.
Mayor Hylan was the Zohran Mamdani of 1925.
Mayor Hylan was the Zohran Mamdani of 1925.
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
100 years ago, John F. Hylan was mayor of New York.
Mayor Hylan was the Zohran Mamdani of 1925.
Mayor Hylan was the Zohran Mamdani of 1925.
History is not for cowards.
Even at 17, Sophie Kloppenburg knows that in history, denial is dishonesty.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C47W...
Even at 17, Sophie Kloppenburg knows that in history, denial is dishonesty.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C47W...
"It's unacceptable to just forget"
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
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November 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
History is not for cowards.
Even at 17, Sophie Kloppenburg knows that in history, denial is dishonesty.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C47W...
Even at 17, Sophie Kloppenburg knows that in history, denial is dishonesty.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C47W...
Be more careful than I was, Virginians. I need to vote early. I typed "voting early in albemarle county" into the search box. The top link read "Vote Early - Find Your Polling Place Today - Check Polling Locations." I clicked it and started entering my information. Only then did this box appear.
October 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Be more careful than I was, Virginians. I need to vote early. I typed "voting early in albemarle county" into the search box. The top link read "Vote Early - Find Your Polling Place Today - Check Polling Locations." I clicked it and started entering my information. Only then did this box appear.
This is not patriotism. This is not conservatism. This is not sanity.
DT and all his apologists disgrace themselves and disgrace the United States.
DT and all his apologists disgrace themselves and disgrace the United States.
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is not patriotism. This is not conservatism. This is not sanity.
DT and all his apologists disgrace themselves and disgrace the United States.
DT and all his apologists disgrace themselves and disgrace the United States.
Reposted by Peter Norton
As DT plays king, stuffing the Oval Office with gold bric-à-brac and planning a $200 million White House ballroom, it’s worth remembering the consternation Nancy Reagan faced for spending $200,000 in donated money for new White House china.
Paul Conrad in the Los Angeles Times, September 15, 1981.
Paul Conrad in the Los Angeles Times, September 15, 1981.
August 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
As DT plays king, stuffing the Oval Office with gold bric-à-brac and planning a $200 million White House ballroom, it’s worth remembering the consternation Nancy Reagan faced for spending $200,000 in donated money for new White House china.
Paul Conrad in the Los Angeles Times, September 15, 1981.
Paul Conrad in the Los Angeles Times, September 15, 1981.
Reposted by Peter Norton
“Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies. We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security and the entire free world – all while cynically waving the American Flag.”
— Ronald Reagan, Nov 27, 1988.
— Ronald Reagan, Nov 27, 1988.
April 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
“Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies. We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security and the entire free world – all while cynically waving the American Flag.”
— Ronald Reagan, Nov 27, 1988.
— Ronald Reagan, Nov 27, 1988.
The flag is not magic.
It cannot make every abomination it touches “conservative.”
It cannot make every abomination it touches “conservative.”
October 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The flag is not magic.
It cannot make every abomination it touches “conservative.”
It cannot make every abomination it touches “conservative.”
If you object to DJT’s lie that this absurd vanity project would not even touch any part of the existing White House, or if you object to the unannounced demolition of the entire East Wing, the president’s sycophants want you to know that you are an “unhinged leftist.”
October 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
If you object to DJT’s lie that this absurd vanity project would not even touch any part of the existing White House, or if you object to the unannounced demolition of the entire East Wing, the president’s sycophants want you to know that you are an “unhinged leftist.”
This development “comes after the university surprised some administration officials by publicly rejecting a Trump administration proposal to link preferential treatment for federal funding to a school’s public commitment to Pres. Trump’s higher education ideology.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
October 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
This development “comes after the university surprised some administration officials by publicly rejecting a Trump administration proposal to link preferential treatment for federal funding to a school’s public commitment to Pres. Trump’s higher education ideology.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
In a speech in Iowa on January 19, 2004, presidential contender Howard Dean screamed “yeah!” The utterance lasted about 1 second. Within a week, the consensus was that this moment of spontaneity was unpresidential, and so undignified that Dean could no longer be considered a serious candidate.
October 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
In a speech in Iowa on January 19, 2004, presidential contender Howard Dean screamed “yeah!” The utterance lasted about 1 second. Within a week, the consensus was that this moment of spontaneity was unpresidential, and so undignified that Dean could no longer be considered a serious candidate.
“I could not in light of these firm and repeated commitments carry out your direction.”
October 20: On this day in 1973, Elliot Richardson set the example we need in 2025.
Rather than accede to a president’s personal interference in the Department of Justice, the Attorney General resigned.
October 20: On this day in 1973, Elliot Richardson set the example we need in 2025.
Rather than accede to a president’s personal interference in the Department of Justice, the Attorney General resigned.
October 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
“I could not in light of these firm and repeated commitments carry out your direction.”
October 20: On this day in 1973, Elliot Richardson set the example we need in 2025.
Rather than accede to a president’s personal interference in the Department of Justice, the Attorney General resigned.
October 20: On this day in 1973, Elliot Richardson set the example we need in 2025.
Rather than accede to a president’s personal interference in the Department of Justice, the Attorney General resigned.
There was a time when the White House federalized a state national guard to protect Americans’ human and constitutional rights under the First Amendment to the freedoms of peaceable assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
October 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
There was a time when the White House federalized a state national guard to protect Americans’ human and constitutional rights under the First Amendment to the freedoms of peaceable assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
