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Friday’s Headlines: Carlina, We Hardly Knew Ye Edition
A Downtown Council member with a great legacy resigns. Plus other news.
August 15, 2025
DOT Stands By Astoria Safety Project Despite Foes’ Anti-Bike Lawsuit
Businesses are suing — and doubling down on anti-safety misinformation — about a simple and important traffic calming and protected bike lane project in Astoria.
August 8, 2025
Waste of Time: Full-Salaried NYPD Cops Now Needed to Enforce the Unprotected Bedford Avenue Bike Lane
Streets that are properly designed — with bike lanes that can't be blocked or narrower lanes in which drivers can't speed — don't need squads of cops to hand out tickets.
August 7, 2025
SQUEEZED: Welcome to the Newly Unsafe Bedford Avenue ‘Bike Lane’
Bike riders are now endangered by parked cars and fast-moving traffic between Willoughby and Flushing avenues, as drivers revert to doing ... exactly what they had been doing.
August 6, 2025
Cyclists Ridicule DOT’s Band-Aid Solution in Washington Heights
"DOT seems afraid to propose anything that impacts parking in any way," said one local bike advocate.
July 29, 2025
Appellate Court Allows Eric Adams To Rip Up Part of the Bedford Ave. Bike Lane
Mayor Adams can go ahead and remove three blocks of the Bedford Avenue protected bike lane, a court ruled.
July 28, 2025
Six Inane Arguments Mayor Adams Is Using To Defend Ripping Up The Bedford Ave. Bike Lane
City bureaucrats are undermining years of data-driven work to make streets safer in service of that mayor's bid to remove the protected bike lane.
July 28, 2025
DOT’s Uptown Greenway Connector is ‘Ridiculous’ — And Forces Cyclists to Cross a Highway Ramp!
The Department of Transportation’s proposed path forces cyclists to cross a highway and traverse stairs just to access the Hudson River Greenway.
July 22, 2025
Eyes on the Street: Meeker Avenue Bike Lane Is a Failure
The Department of Transportation still hasn't finished a critical bike lane under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that the agency has been stalling for over four years even after identifying the strip's danger and lack of proper signals.
July 18, 2025
Appeals Court Halts Adams’s Impending Bedford Ave. Protected Bike Lane Demolition
The judge's ruling came just as the city was set to begin the bike lane demolition process Tuesday evening.
July 15, 2025
