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Council Outrage Over NYPD Bike Criminalization Grows, But Speaker Adams Is In No Rush
Council members want Speaker Adrienne Adams to act, but she doesn't want to.
May 29, 2025
Quiet Desperation: NYPD’s Tisch Didn’t Tell DOT About Her Crackdown on Cycling
The NYPD commissioner did not inform her counterpart at the Department of Transportation that police would begin issuing criminal summonses to cyclists.
May 15, 2025
NYPD’s Push To Criminalize Cycling Spells Trouble For Immigrant Workers
Safety for the community? Great. But aren't delivery workers part of the community, too?
May 9, 2025
Decision 2025: Mayoral Hopefuls Discuss E-Bikes … With Joy and Concern
E-bikes are a vital tool for delivery workers and for people seeking to reduce their use of private cars. What would you do to both expand e-bike use and make streets safer? And the answers are...
May 9, 2025
Komanoff: Tsk, Tsk, Tisch — Criminal Summonses for Cyclists Will Backfire
Commissioner Jessica Tisch's new policy will result in unsafer streets and crackdowns on hard-working immigrants.
May 7, 2025
Supporters Rally, But Delivery Workers Stay Home Amid Deportation Fears
Vulnerable immigrant delivery workers avoided a rally for better pay on May Day.
May 2, 2025
Leadership Vacuum: Delivery Workers Oppose Hochul’s E-Bike Plan as Adams Goes AWOL
Advocates and delivery workers are against new proposals from the Governor to regulate e-bikes, so what's going on with city hall's leaked plan to keep the industry in check?
February 27, 2025
Deep Dive: City Hall Offers Glimpse of Draft Plan To Regulate Delivery Apps
The Adams Administration revealed its plans to regulate delivery app companies. Here's how it would affect the major stakeholders — and you.
February 10, 2025
How an Ex-Delivery Worker Upended NYC’s Streets
Ou Zhou, a former delivery worker who founded Fly E-Bike, has hit it big selling fast, low-cost electric bikes and mopeds to delivery workers, transforming New York City streets in the process. But with concerns growing about fires from lithium-ion batteries and more scrutiny on the way, can his electric empire survive? Co-published today with Curbed.
January 31, 2025
Q&A: Whizz CEO Has Lessons For E-Bike Regulation
Company CEO Mike Peregudov sits down with Streetsblog to talk about his industry and why putting license plates on e-bikes is a non-starter.
January 30, 2025
