Advocates To MTA: Stop Holding Our Elevators Hostage
It's another state and city funding spat — with the MTA claiming it can't do accessibility upgrades without city cash.
January 28, 2020
STREETSBLOG GETS ACTION: Council Will Probe NYPD’s Biased ‘Jaywalking’ Enforcement
The City Council will investigate whether the NYPD is conducting racially biased harassment of blacks and Latinos, who received 90 percent of all "jaywalking" tickets issued by cops last year.
January 27, 2020
LeBron James To City: Build More Bike Lanes
"Safety is always first," King James said.
January 21, 2020
Time’s Up! When Will The Mayor Fill His MTA Board Vacancies?
It's no small bureaucratic matter. The city's MTA Board members speak for millions of transit riders on a largely regional panel that often slights the city.
January 17, 2020
Activists Make Music To Demand DOT Fix Sixth Avenue’s ‘Road To Nowhere’
And the city says it's finally ready to make the fix.
January 14, 2020
The Winners And Losers in Queens Bus Network Redesign Draft
Overall, the plan has been been lauded by many transit advocates — so that's good. But it's not perfect, as our analysis shows.
January 14, 2020
Queens Bus Network Redesign Strives for Simplicity
The draft plan seeks to combine routes and eliminate redundancies while improving connections among neighborhoods and between boroughs.
January 3, 2020
De Blasio’s 2019 Report Card: Lots of ‘Incompletes’
We think the mayor has done some great things, some not-so-great things and then failed to do some things at all. Our annual report card.
December 30, 2019
MTA Pays $900,000 For Audit Telling Them Things They’ve Already Heard For Free
For the same $900,000 that the MTA paid for the forensic audit, the agency could have funded 14,173 30-day Fair Fare MetroCards.
December 22, 2019
Bloody Thursday: Truckers Kills Pedestrians In SoHo and Sunset Park
New York City's bloody backslide on Vision Zero continued on Thursday afternoon with the death of two more pedestrians hit by two more truck drivers.
December 19, 2019
