Issues & Campaigns
A Car Driver Ripped Off a Woman’s Leg in Broad Daylight
A Brooklyn driver drove onto a busy sidewalk in central Williamsburg and maimed a 33-year-old pedestrian. Why can't our officials prevent this kind of predictable incident?
Wednesday’s Headlines: Dueling Rallies Edition
Astoria was ground zero in the fight for safe streets yesterday, with dueling rallies over the 31st Street bike lane. Plus other news.
Speaker Adams to Sink Daylighting Bill: Advocates
The last-minute move shatters years of grass roots advocacy.
Ex-FDNY Boss: Queens Judge ‘Wrongly’ Pit FDNY vs. DOT in Bike Lane Ruling
The former head of the FDNY slammed a Queens judge for pitting the Fire Department against the safe streets movement in a ruling that erased a bike lane.
Here’s Everything Wrong With the Judge’s Order to Rip Up the 31st Street Protected Bike Lane
A Queens judge overstepped her jurisdiction when she ordered the city to rip up a protected bike lane in Astoria, experts said.
MTA Still Won’t Embrace Open Gangway Subway Cars
The see-through cars have been standard across the globe for a generation, but to the MTA, it's still untested technology.
Tuesday’s Headlines: Clearing the Air Edition
We've been clear that congestion pricing is working. Turns out, congestion pricing was, too! Plus other news.
NYPD Finds Mysterious Corpse in Car With Illegal Tints Parked at a Hydrant Near Stationhouse
The discovery is a gruesome demonstration of the NYPD's systemic failure to enforce parking rules around its own station houses.
Who Rides on the Sidewalk? To NYPD, Just Blacks and Hispanics
The NYPD has ramped up its enforcement against cyclists for squeezing pedestrians, but in a very suspect manner.
‘No Better Place’: Mamdani Must Pedestrianize Financial District
Residents of Lower Manhattan have been demanding pedestrianized streets for decades, but the city and Big Business keep thwarting them. Sounds like a job for Mayor Mamdani.
