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Delivery Worker Minimum Wage Shows Promise … For Some, Data Shows
New data from the city's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection shows minimum wage is bringing order to a previously wild industry.
July 15, 2024
Wednesday’s Headlines: Congestion Pricing Flushed Away Edition
Literally every reporter at Streetsblog handed in their resignation letter at just before midnight. Plus other news.
June 5, 2024
‘Buy, Bully, Bamboozle’: Report Alleges App Companies Threaten Democracy
App delivery companies seek to block worker-led improvements by spending big money on political influence, leveraging their data, and even co-opting progressive language, argues a new report that lands days before a national one-day strike by app-workers.
April 29, 2024
Landmarks Officials OK Delivery Worker Hub Outside City Hall
The sleek new delivery hub and charging station will replace a 1980s-era newsstand that's sat empty since the pandemic.
April 17, 2024
E-Bike Swap Project Putting City to Shame on Safe Delivery Equipment
One of the city’s most dangerous industries is getting a major pedal-assist from a coalition of advocates committed to making food delivery work safer.
April 10, 2024
OPINION: E-Bike Licensing Would Harm Workers — and Absolve App Companies
New York politicians want to force delivery workers to shoulder the burden of e-bike regulation rather than regulating the app companies, says Los Deliveristas Unidos leader Gustavo Ajche.
April 1, 2024
Maximum Rage: Delivery Workers Protest Low Wages, App ‘Lockouts’
Couriers with bikes and signs urge the city to step in as Uber Eats, GrubHub and DoorDash withhold work, they say.
March 28, 2024
Neighborhood With Many Deliveries Rejects Rest Stop for the Deliveristas Who Make Them
It's the second time a community board has turned down a proposed rest and recharging facility for the essential delivery workers.
March 27, 2024
SEE IT! Long-Awaited City Hall Delivery Worker Hub Unveiled
The facility would be a first of its kind in the country, officials say.
March 18, 2024
To NYPD Commissioner Caban and the 24th Precinct CO: Get Your Priorities Straight
The NYPD’s approach to e-bike fatalities and to citizen complaints about e-bikes is to crack down on slow-moving traditional cyclists, presumably because they are easier to catch.
March 11, 2024
