Gridlock Sam on the Streets

West Side Drive in Prospect Park now closed to all traffic as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Vision Zero campaign to eliminate traffic fatalities.

Starting from Bedford Ave. and Sullivan Place in Brooklyn, Sam Schwartz -- aka Gridlock Sam at the Daily News, former NYC Traffic Commissioner, president and CEO of Sam Schwartz Engineering, a traffic planning and engineering firm and author of Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars (PublicAffairs, 2015) -- explores how cars and street life can avoid collisions.

→ Event: See Sam Schwartz at BookCourt in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, on Saturday, October 3rd at 4pm. He will be in conversation with Nathan Pyle, author of NYC Tips and Etiquette (remember Nathan Pyle? He discussed his book on our show.)