Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eric Adams

A rider boards a B61 bus next to a Fair Fares bus shelter ad on Columbia Street in Brooklyn. Photo: Kevin Duggan

EXCLUSIVE: Fair Fares to Roll Out on OMNY Next Year But Enrollment Still Lags

By Kevin Duggan | Oct 26, 2022 | No Comments

The city's Fair Fares program providing half-priced MetroCards to low-income New Yorkers will transition to the MTA's OMNY payment system next year, Streetsblog has learned.

Mayor Adams stood next to a selection of Sanitation compost bins at the recent announcement that universal composting pickup will start in Queens. Photo: Mayor's Office

Queens Composting Overtakes Old Opt-in Program, But Still Has a Long Way to Go

By Kevin Duggan | Oct 24, 2022 | No Comments

Queens is getting its crap together.

Mayor Adams (with a laughing Council Member Marjorie Velázquez and other council members on February 6, 2022. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office

Mayor Adams: Keep DOT in Charge of Open Restaurants

By Kevin Duggan | Oct 20, 2022 | No Comments

Mayor Adams is pushing the City Council to keep the Department of Transportation in charge of outdoor dining, rather than move it to the much smaller Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, a move that advocates fear would sabotage the popular al-fresco "streeteries."

‘A NIMBY City Hall’: Adams Appointees Thwart Key Bike and Bus Projects

By Jesse Coburn | Oct 17, 2022 | No Comments

As the city seeks to redesign its streets to better serve transit riders, pedestrians and cyclists, interference is emerging from an unlikely place: City Hall itself. And one division of City Hall in particular.

On Jan. 19, Mayor Adams journeyed to Coney Island Avenue to promise to fix 1,000 intersections. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Update: ‘Get Stuff Done’ Mayor Far Behind on his Vow to Fix 1,000 Intersections

By Gersh Kuntzman | Sep 21, 2022 | No Comments

The mayor isn't even halfway towards reaching his promise to "make design improvements" at 1,000 intersections this year — and the promised redesigns have overwhelmingly been merely changing the timing of traffic lights.

Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office with help from the Streetsblog Photoshop Desk

Tuesday’s Headlines: No Comment Edition

By Streetsblog | Sep 20, 2022 | No Comments

A 9-year-old boy was killed on Friday as he walked on a sidewalk in Sheepshead Bay by a driver. It was all over the news (and on our site, too). On Monday, we asked City Hall if the mayor would like to comment. [Insert cricket sounds here.] Plus other news.

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