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No Courtesy, Professionalism or Respect for the Dead: Funeral Homes Blast Placard Abuse
The only three certainties in life are death, taxes, and placard abuse.
June 30, 2022
DOT Pushes Back at Calls for Office of ‘Public Space Management’
"We have decades of experience and expertise," Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez told the Council at a Tuesday hearing.
June 29, 2022
DOT ‘Welcomes’ Council Bill to Build and Maintain City Greenways
No fuss, no fight, more greenways. Apparently.
June 28, 2022
‘School Streets’ Program Withering, Parents Blame Lack of City Support
Boosters of the program say its unraveling is predictable, given the city provides few resources to participants and requires them to run their school streets themselves.
June 28, 2022
Carmageddon Likely from BQE Repair Work as DOT Will Detour Trucks into Residential Neighborhoods
Some nights and weekends work will radically alter residential Brooklyn.
June 27, 2022
Friday’s Headlines: Give Our Prayers to Broadway Edition
The city promises traffic-calming measures after a horrific crash. Plus other news.
June 24, 2022
City’s Proposed Eastern Queens Bike Network Needs Work, Activists Say
The city's proposal for a protected bike-lane network in a dangerous section of Eastern Queens is better, but still lacks important connections that compromise its safety, activists say.
June 23, 2022
Horrifying Crash Renews Business Groups’ Calls for a Pedestrian-Safe Broadway
If they build it, you won't die.
June 23, 2022
Did the City Just Blame a Pedestrian for Her Death on Crosswalk-Free Flatlands Ave.?
A pedestrian was killed along a dangerous stretch of Flatlands Avenue in Brooklyn, but Department of Transportation officials suggested she was at fault for crossing "mid-block" — even though the long stretch of roadway where she died runs more than one-sixth of a mile between traffic lights.
June 22, 2022
Horrified City Calls for Safe, Car-Free Broadway, But Mayor Says ‘Not at This Time’
Mayor Adams dashed residents' and works' hopes of a new city push to pedestrianize Broadway in the wake of Monday's horrific crash, even as advocates doubled-down on their calls for the slowly changing roadway to be finally rid of cars.
June 21, 2022
