City Launches Long-Awaited Containerized Residential Trash Pilot
It's history in the taking as Sanitation workers start collecting trash from the curbside lane, not the sidewalk on one lucky block in Hells Kitchen.
December 13, 2022
City May Restore BQE to Six Full Lanes of Nastiness, Sources Say
The future of the BQE may be going backwards.
December 13, 2022
Going in Circles: Laws to Tame Helicopters Struggle to Take Off
Helicopters are like the weather: Everyone complains about them, but no one fixes the problem. Here's our deep dive into how all three branches of government have failed the public.
December 12, 2022
Council Wants to Speed Up Parks Projects (Like Those Much-Delayed Greenways!)
The department has been a poor steward of its bike infrastructure that provide crucial links in the city's cycling network — like Ocean Parkway. And Council Member Shekar Krishnan wants to change that.
December 8, 2022
Queensboro Bridge Bike Boom Continues, But DOT Still Prioritizes Car Drivers Over Walkers and Cyclists
The city is doubling down on its delay at giving more space to cyclists and pedestrians on the Queensboro Bridge, even as the agency's own data show that the span had the highest annual increase in bike traffic.
December 5, 2022
W. 22nd Open Street Opponents Scale Up Backlash As City Plans Longer-term Traffic Calming
The city is considering long-term traffic-calming — without barriers — on W. 22nd Street as a handful of residents is trying to kill the open street outright.
December 4, 2022
Bigger and Better: Brooklyn BP Wants Summer Streets Longer Than Manhattan
Spread Summer Streets, it's the Brooklyn way.
November 29, 2022
Queens Pols Revive Push for MTA to Study QueensLink, As QueensWay Linear Park Surges
Transit with a park or just a park? That is the question.
November 28, 2022
SNOW PROBLEM? Sanitation Has Bigger Fleet of Bike Lane Plows, But Same Old Car-First Cleanup Plan
New York's Strongest are gearing up to clear bike lanes of snow this winter — but they must still wait for car lanes first.
November 23, 2022
Citywide Composting Would Require $75M to Buy 170 Trucks: Commish
The Department of Sanitation will have to spend around $75 million to buy roughly 170 trucks if it has any chance of growing the Queens universal curbside organics collection into a robust citywide program, Commissioner Jessica Tisch told the Council last week.
November 21, 2022