In this episode of Auto Asphyxiation, we explore Streetsblog through the Zero-to-Hero Mamdani meter. Elite capture is everywhere in urbanism and bicycling.

Streetsblog exists because of a single donor, one who gave a quarter-million dollars to the “Fix the City” Super PAC. And it wasn’t to fix the city; it was to keep it exactly as it is, and to ensure that anyone at Gracie Mansion was not Mamdani.

So what does Streetsblog want to be: journalism—or a tissue for a wealthy man?