Aaron Naparstek (born 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts) is the founder of Streetsblog,[1][2] a website providing daily coverage of transportation, anti-automobile activism, land use, and environmental issues in New York City.
There, he organized campaigns to eliminate motor vehicles from Prospect Park[3] worked to create safer conditions for pedestrians,[4] and won significant expansions of New York City's bicycle network.
[5] In 2003, Naparstek authored Honku: The Zen Antidote for Road Rage, a book of humorous haiku poetry inspired by the unique brand of sociopathic motorist behavior observed in his Brooklyn neighborhood.
[8] Prior to his involvement in New York City transportation policy, advocacy, and politics, Naparstek worked for six years as an independent interactive media producer, designing, and developing original content, e-commerce, and live webcast products for major corporations, start-ups, non-profits and Internet-oriented venture capital firms.
[9] At SPINonline, Naparstek conceived, built, and ran the 1995 Lollapalooza Online Diaries,[10] one of the first experiments in allowing celebrity musical artists to communicate directly with fans using new digital media tools that were just becoming available on the commercial Internet.