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Kevin Duggan

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Council Member Julie Menin pushes her daughter Maddie, 4, onto a bus on the Upper East Side. Photo: Kevin Duggan

Stroller Pilot Expands to 1,000 Buses, More Routes to Come

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 25, 2023 | No Comments
Big Apple parents have for years demanded the agency revise that policy, citing the danger and difficulty they had to endure just to board a bus with kids.
A wider sidewalk and a dedicated bus lane on Westchester Avenue in the East Bronx will make for shorter trips. Photo: DOT

DOT Widens Sidewalk, Adds Contraflow Bus Lane to Help East Bronx Commuters

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 24, 2023 | No Comments
The city extended a sidewalk and cut out a circuitous loop from the Bronx's busiest bus route at the Pelham Bay Park subway station, and officials said the small upgrades will make for safer and shorter commutes.
Longtime food vendor M.D. Rahman was booted from the Brooklyn Bridge, but he was back last week. Photo: Kevin Duggan

‘The Mayor Wants This’: City Boots Vendors From Brooklyn Bridge — EXCLUSIVE

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 22, 2023 | No Comments
The city booted vendors from the Brooklyn Bridge walkway and has started deploying regular police patrols to stop them from setting back up on the busy pedestrian path — and the removal orders came straight from Mayor Adams, sellers told Streetsblog.
Sony Sauveur, owner of Golden Blue, a Caribbean restaurant on Flatbush Avenue and Clarendon Road, said the open restaurants program was crucial for his business's survival. Photo: Henry Beers Shenk

Pandemic Dining Program Added Outdoor Cafés to 17 Neighborhoods that Never Had Them

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 19, 2023 | No Comments
And the "open restaurants" initiative was also a boon to especially blue collar districts of color outside of Manhattan, according to a new report.
Canal Street's heavy midday traffic snakes through Chinatown. Photo: Kevin Duggan

UNDER FURTHER REVIEW: DOT To Study Canal Street For Bike and Pedestrian Improvements This Year

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 19, 2023 | No Comments
The eight-month analysis will mark yet another study of the corridor — and the area's council member urged the Adams administration to actually get stuff done this time.
A rider boards a B61 bus next to a Fair Fares bus shelter ad on Columbia Street in Brooklyn.

Transit Equity? Adams Budget Adds No New Funds for Fair Fares Discount Program

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 12, 2023 | No Comments
Mayor Adams's preliminary budget does not increase funding for Fair Fares, the city's half-price MetroCard program for very low-income transit riders — a program that only last year, Mayor Adams called "transformative."
Mayor Eric Adams and DCAS Commissioner Dawn Pinnock test drive a city vehicle with speed controls after a press conference on Aug. 11, 2022. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office

City Workers Drove Slower in Speed Governor Pilot, But Disabled Cap Hundreds of Times

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 12, 2023 | No Comments
A city program putting speed restriction technology on a small number of government vehicles has shown promising results, with drivers speeding rarely and doing less hard braking — but workers can disable the system for 15 seconds at a time.
Someone installed a bouquet near the crash site on 24th Avenue, seen a day after the crash. Photo: Cristina Furlong

Locals Have Been Begging for Safer Street Where Trucker Killed Citi Bike Rider

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 6, 2023 | No Comments
Four dead cyclists in three years. Enough is enough, say Astoria activists.
File photo: Dave Colon

BREAKING: Cement Truck Driver Fatally Strikes Woman on Citi Bike in Astoria

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 5, 2023 | No Comments
A trucker fatally struck a woman riding a Citi Bike in Astoria on Thursday evening, the fourth cyclist to be killed in the western Queens neighborhood in less than three years, according to officials.
Families enjoy the W. 22nd Open Street in Chelsea. Photo: Melodie Bryant

Community Board 4 Wants Shared Street on W. 22nd — And Continued Open Street in the Meantime

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 5, 2023 | No Comments
A Manhattan community board wants the city to turn the embattled W. 22nd open street into a permanent shared street — the latest twist in a saga that has seen the popular play street under fire from a small group of opponents.
Scene of the crash: A pickup truck driver struck a moped rider at Grand Street and Graham Avenue in Williamsburg on Dec. 28. Photo: Citizen

Driver of Truck With 17 Speeding Tickets Fatally Hits Moped Rider In Williamsburg

By Kevin Duggan | Dec 28, 2022 | No Comments
A motorist whose company truck has a long history of dangerous driving, fatally struck a moped rider on a dangerous Williamsburg street on Wednesday morning.
Cars block Livingston Street up and down its bus lanes. Photos: @NYCBikeLanes via Twitter

DOT Promises Bus Improvements on Livingston St., Downtown Brooklyn’s Placard Abuse Epicenter

By Kevin Duggan | Dec 19, 2022 | No Comments
Bus speeds for the four routes going through that stretch are as low as 5.7 miles-per-hour, slower than the borough-wide average.
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