Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Brad Lander

Crashes like this cost the city lots of money. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Crashes By City Workers — Especially Cops — Are Still Costing Taxpayers Dearly

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 22, 2022 | No Comments

Injury and property damage from crashes represent the largest cause for payouts by the city — even ahead of police brutality, slip and falls on sidewalks, or misconduct in the city's jails.

This guy might want to do it. Photo: Dave Colon

Who Wants To Give The MTA Half A Billion Dollars?

By Dave Colon | Jan 28, 2022 | No Comments

Is the MTA in financial trouble or not? Yes.

Justice for Baby Apolline. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Mayor, Lander, Gutman: Much-Touted ‘Safe-Driving’ Courses May Not Work, So Let’s Build on Them

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 8, 2021 | No Comments

Politicians who have hailed driver education courses as a linchpin of their efforts to rid the streets of bad drivers are now admitting that they — and other pols who aren't them — need to do even more. You think?

A memorial for baby Apolline at the corner of Vanderbilt and Gates avenues. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

EXCLUSIVE: Reckless Driver Who Killed Baby Apolline Took Driver ‘Accountability’ Course — But It Didn’t Change a Thing

By Julianne Cuba | Oct 6, 2021 | No Comments

Such "safe-driving" courses are seen by some as a model for changing the behavior of reckless drivers. But there is limited evidence they work — and certainly did not in the case of Tyrik Mott.

Deliveristas rally at City Hall Park for a package of City Hall bills that would regulate delivery apps. Photo: Dave Colon

‘Uber’s Fantasy Novel’: State Gig-Worker Bill Would Limit City’s Proposed Deliverista Rights

By Dave Colon | May 25, 2021 | No Comments

A state proposal that would allow gig workers, such as the city's delivery riders, to form unions and bargain for wages would also undercut recent City Council efforts to give far more rights to those workers, advocates say.

Mayor Uses the ‘H’ Word for Lander: ‘Hypocrite’

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 23, 2021 | No Comments

Well, it does take one to know one.

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