You may have noticed that we have been running a daily update of whether Mayor Mamdani has disappointed the livable streets movement. After being reset once in his term — for ticketing cyclists after saying that he didn't want the NYPD to do that anymore — Mamdani is back up to a healthy four days without a lost-time disappointment (as we said back at the factory).
But that little gauge is nothing compared to the project tracker we're rolling out today! Our own Kevin Duggan compiled the ultimate list of projects that former Mayor Eric Adams either watered-down, stalled or outright killed — all of which Mayor Mamdani has, at one time or another, said he wanted to complete.
It's not a "mayoral failure tracker," as some wags on the internet have dubbed it. No, it's a success tracker! Judging from the early talk from Mamdani, from his Department of Transportation Commissioner Mike Flynn and from Deputy Mayor for Operations Julia Kerson, we have no doubt that the Mamdani administration will get those "incompletes" turned into green boxes in no time!
We're here to document the progress as it happens. So bookmark this page and follow along! Here's the chart as it stands now (keep scrolling):
Did we leave anything out? Let us know what Adams-era projects you want us to track.
In other news:
- Make sure you periodically check out our new Streetsblog Empire State — especially today on State of the State day! — for all your Albany and non-city livable streets news.
- The MTA is still finishing work on the Second Avenue Subway stations that it opened years ago. We smell a Cuomo-sized rat. (Gothamist)
- Will this latest runaway horse be the end of the carriage horse trade? (amNY, Patch)
- AI searching for weapons in the subway? What could possibly go wrong? (NY Post)
- That fatal crash on the Belt Parkway might have been a suicide. (NY Post)
- The annual list of rejected vanity plates is out. Sorry F4RTMOM. (SI Advance)
- President Trump is still railing about congestion pricing. (NY Post)
- And, finally, referring to the aforementioned tracker, look, we're not holding Mayor Mamdani accountable (yet) for fixing the Brooklyn Bridge bike lane so that puddles and ice don't form, but the fact that we've been calling it "Lake Gutman" and "Lake Ydanis" over the years should at least indicate that this is a well-known problem that needs fixing because the icy conditions we found yesterday are dangerous. After all, the mayor certainly won't want us renaming it "Lake Flynn," would he?
