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‘Mountable’ No More? City Says New Bike Lane Design on Grand Concourse Will Curb Illegal Parking
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
Opinion: The Case for Letting the BQE Fail
The same activism that saved the Brooklyn Heights Promenade could bring down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Thursday’s Headlines: Far Above Cayuga’s Waters Edition
Streetsblog Editor-in-Chief Gersh Kuntzman is in Ithaca on Thursday for a panel on the state of local journalism. Plus the real news.
Voters Appear To Reject Powerful Assembly Transportation Chair Bill Magnarelli For DSA’s Mo Brown
The longtime Assembly member appears to have lost to the upstart Onondaga County Legislator in the Democratic primary for a key upstate seat.
Mamdani Moves to Ban ‘Scam’ Delivery App Motoclick For Underpaying Workers
Motoclick admitted to paying workers between $3.67 and $4.67 per hour in May — less than a quarter of the city’s minimum pay rate of $22.13, the city said.
Wednesday’s Headlines: A Huge Night For Livable Streets Edition
A huge sweep for the kind of candidates that Streetsblog readers like. Plus other news.
Dems Push for Guardrails to Shield Federal Transportation Grants From Trump Meddling
Will Senate Democrats leverage the proposed Build America 250 Act to end President Trump’s meddling in transportation funding?
New York’s Fined-est: Meet the Reckless Cops With Thousands in Tickets
A single unmarked NYPD car has been nabbed by city speeding cameras hundreds of times over the past three years — but there’s no paperwork disputing the tickets as essential to police work.
Press Boxed: MTA Boss Accuses Amtrak’s Byford Of ‘Gamesmanship’ With Leaked Letter About Penn Station
Memo of agreement? To Janno Lieber, the Amtrak offer sounds more like a memo of disagreement!
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The Dark Web: The City Can’t Control Online Sales Of Illegal E-Scooters And E-Motos
The NYPD and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection have cracked down on stores that sell illegal electric two-wheelers, but the city isn’t doing anything about online sales.
Power Outage: MTA Delays Bus Electrification Amid Manufacturer Challenges
American manufacturers have failed to create top-notch plug-in buses.
Tuesday’s Headlines: Does Zohran Mamdani Know Billy Idol Edition
We asked Hizzoner about the citizen idling program, and it wasn’t clear he knew all the details. Plus other news.
PEDESTRIANIZE NOW! Financial District Businesses Want Space for People Not Cars
Lower Manhattan merchants see green in proposals to pedestrianize the Financial District.
Driverless Cars Could Save Tens of Thousands of Lives. But We Must Treat Them Like Aviation — Not Like Cars
Commercial passenger aviation has nearly zero passenger deaths per year compared to about 40,000 roadway deaths. That’s not a function of driving being inherently riskier — it is a function of what our leaders decide is “safe enough.”
