Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eric Adams

DOT is promising wider bike lanes to make room for more — and faster vehicles. This conceptual design points the way forward. Main image: File art. Inset graphic: NACTO

Adams Administration Teases ‘Exploration’ of Wider Bike Lanes to Ease E-Bike Revolution

By David Meyer | Mar 23, 2023 | No Comments

The crush for space in New York City's bike lanes has intensified in recent years with the growing popularity of e-bikes, but relief may finally be on the way.

Mayor Adams isn't keen on Gov. Hochul asking for $500 million to close the MTA's budget gap. Photos: Kevin Duggan/Dave Colon

Adams To Albany: Someone Fund The MTA; Albany To Adams: Someone Fund The MTA

By Dave Colon and Kevin Duggan | Feb 16, 2023 | No Comments

The fight to fill the MTA's fiscal hole is entering the dreaded Punt Zone, where elected officials from the governor and the State Legislature to the mayor all unite to say someone else has got to solve their problem.

We Were Right: Mayor’s Management Report Confirms Streetsblog Reporting Previously Criticized by City Officials

By Gersh Kuntzman | Feb 2, 2023 | No Comments

A series of articles in Streetsblog last year that was highly criticized by City Hall because it outlined failures of the Department of Transportation to meet bus and bike lane mileage requirements due to staffing shortages and political waffling has just been confirmed — by City Hall.

What do we want? (Clockwise from top left) Summer Streets in Brooklyn and Queens, the City of Yes zoning, more open streets and a permanent open restaurant program.

What the Livable Streets Movement Wants from Thursday’s State of the City Address

By Chelsea Dowell | Jan 25, 2023 | No Comments

Mayor Adams’s State of the City address on Thursday will set the tone for the coming year — and you can learn a lot about a leader by what he or she chooses to highlight at such a public address.

Maybe Mayor Adams will do to the media what he sometimes does to defunct dining sheds.

Tuesday’s Headlines: Who Needs the Media Edition

By Streetsblog Editorial Board | Jan 24, 2023 | No Comments

The big story was Mayor Adams's announcement that he doesn't need reporters asking nosey questions because he's setting up his own newsletter! Plus other news.

Longtime food vendor M.D. Rahman was booted from the Brooklyn Bridge, but he was back last week. Photo: Kevin Duggan

‘The Mayor Wants This’: City Boots Vendors From Brooklyn Bridge — EXCLUSIVE

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 22, 2023 | No Comments

The city booted vendors from the Brooklyn Bridge walkway and has started deploying regular police patrols to stop them from setting back up on the busy pedestrian path — and the removal orders came straight from Mayor Adams, sellers told Streetsblog.

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