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Anatomy of a Debacle: Business Owners Use False Fears, Mayor Adams Stalls Third Av. Safety Plan

It takes just a handful of opponents to derail street safety in Adams's New York.

April 16, 2025

Vision? Zero: Tragedy Underscores Shortcomings of Efforts to Make Ocean Parkway Safer

Road violence on Ocean Parkway is at its highest levels of the Vision Zero era — and despite millions of dollars of state safety improvements.

April 4, 2025

ESSAY: A Brush With Danger Made Me Exhibit A in My Fight for Better Bike Lanes in Brooklyn

I was cycling home on Henry Street in Brooklyn on Dec. 20 when I became Exhibit A in my campaign for protected bike lanes in Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens.

January 9, 2025

Mythbusting: Don’t Assume Orthodox Jews Only Drive — We Want Bike Lanes, Too

City planners too often choose not to put bike lanes in certain places based on the myth that Orthodox Jews don't use them.

October 30, 2024

Slaughter of the Innocents: Another Teen Cyclist Killed by Truck Driver on Dangerous Brooklyn Street

The 15th cyclist, and the 12 child, has been killed, this time along a notorious roadway that the city has failed to tame.

August 20, 2024

Brooklyn’s Fourth Ave. ‘Great Street’ Delayed … Again

Phase I of construction on Fourth Avenue's Great Street Capital Project, originally set to end in June 2024, has now been pushed back at least another year plus.

August 16, 2024

‘Driggs Passage’ Shows Possible Car-Free Future for Brooklyn’s McCarren Park

The street could join parcels of McCarren Park bifurcated by cars.

August 3, 2024

Deranged Driver Blows Through Brooklyn Open Streets Barriers

An unhinged motorist plowed through open streets barriers on Hoyt Street in Brooklyn seconds after volunteers set them up earlier this month.

July 26, 2024

Bus Advocates Renew Push For Flatbush Avenue Bus Lane Despite Mayor’s Lack of Support

A broad coalition of transit advocates and labor unions gathered Tuesday to demand Mayor Adams get over his reluctance to improve buses on the borough-spanning avenue.

July 10, 2024

Brooklyn Pedestrian Fatally Struck By Garbage Truck Driver Who Initially Fled; No Charges

It's the latest death in a year that is experiencing a 26-percent rise in pedestrian fatalities.

June 27, 2024