Thursday’s Headlines: Award Season Begins Edition

Forgive us if we get right to the news today, but tonight is a big night for all of us at Streetsblog: We’re finalists for a Deadline Club Award, thanks to Jesse Coburn’s “Moped King” investigation, and subsequent follow-ups by Sophia Lebowitz and yours truly. (Not to brag, but the series has already been honored this year by the New York Press Club.)

I’ll be on hand at the Harvard Club — if they let me in with my Ardsley High School sweatshirt — to, hopefully, hoist the famed Rube Goldberg-designed “dead line” trophy.

Last year, we won one for video news reporting, so hope springs eternal. Check this space tomorrow to find out how we did.

In other news:

• Can we not jinx the Knicks — or the World Cup — just yet, Gothamist?
• It’s almost hilarious that the Post doesn’t care at all about the fact that there really is a car with fake California vanity plates speeding all over town — no, the tabloid would rather score an easy layup on the city’s speed camera program.
• The NYPD continued its policy of crushing illegal mopeds, but Mayor Mamdani did not, like his predecessor, join the sadistic photo-op. Now do, cars, Commissioner Tisch. (NY Post)
• The best budget story of the day was amNY‘s look at the Department of Transportation agenda. We’re still digging into it because it’s not as straightforward as it appears.
• Don’t miss our story about the latest bike boulevard that the DOT revealed last night in Queens.
• Microtransit appears doomed in Jersey City. (Gothamist)
• Lots of outlets covered Mayor Mamdani’s proposed Broadway bus lane in Queens that will help LaGuardia-bound travelers. (NYDN, Streetsblog, amNY)
• Is there really going to be an LIRR strike? Gothamist preps, while QNS worries about the Subway Series. The Daily News played it straight. The Times did an explainer.
• StreetopiaUWS is hosting an all-ages bike ride on Saturday in support of the proposed protected bike lane on W. 72nd Street.
• Outdoor dining remains in trouble. (NY Post)