Mayor de Blasio’s Gotten All Blurry on Vision Zero
The mayor's signature plan to end all traffic deaths by 2024 needs a new prescription — and a mayor who is entirely focused on the five boroughs.
May 6, 2019
NYPD Commissioner: Bell Tickets Were a Tool to Stop a Bike Ride
The city's top cop admitted that the scores of cops who harassed cyclists in Tompkins Square Park last month were deployed to stop an annual bike race.
May 3, 2019
NYPD: Off-Duty Cop Assaulted E-Bike Rider for ‘Almost Hitting’ His Daughter
The cop claimed the biker nearly hit his daughter — almost injuring her and nearly sending her to a hospital.
May 1, 2019
Meet a Mayor Who Figured Out How to Neutralize Anti-Bike Lane NIMBYs
A small city in Massachusetts may be paving the way to safer streets and less community opposition.
May 1, 2019
Queens Pol Demands More Space for Cyclists and Peds on Queensboro Bridge
Just one narrow pathway is shared by both cyclists and pedestrians, whose numbers are booming. Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer wants that to change.
April 30, 2019
Scott Stringer Channels Robert F. Kennedy in Vision for Mid-Block Playgrounds
A back-to-the-future plan to turn through streets into cul-de-sacs with playgrounds in the middle (and FedEx on the sidewalk).
April 29, 2019
NYPD Harassment: Five Cyclists in Their Own Words
Streetsblog talked with many cyclists in Union Square on Wednesday. Here are their stories.
April 25, 2019
Cops Who Confiscated Bikes Carried Out ‘Racist Policy’ — And Don’t Even Know the Law They Cited
A second day of harsh criticism of NYPD harassment of cyclists that Mayor de Blasio claims he didn't know about.
April 24, 2019
NYPD Intimidates and Cracks Down on Cyclists For No Good Reason
Dozens of armed cops swarmed two Manhattan parks on Saturday to harass kids on bikes and kick them out of the public spaces — the latest display of aggressive enforcement against cyclists in what Mayor de Blasio calls “America's fairest city.”
April 22, 2019
One Cyclist’s Story: How A Placard-Wielding Driver Got Away With a Crime
Here's a snapshot into why many victims of road violence don't even bother to call police and why so many New Yorkers are so enraged by placard corruption.
April 22, 2019
