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A Presidents’ Day Interview with Brooklyn Borough Prez Antonio Reynoso
This president wants a completion of Brooklyn’s waterfront greenway and ensuring that the city better tackles road violence through improved street design and new laws.
February 20, 2023
Friday’s Headlines: A New Public Role for the Public Realm Edition
Mayor Adams not only made good on his promise to create an office of the public realm, but named much-esteemed livable streets supporter Ya-Ting Liu to the position of "chief public realm officer." Plus other news.
February 17, 2023
DOT to Council: Don’t Ask Us To Do More After We Failed to What You Mandated Us To Do Last Year
The Department of Transportation rejected an entire slate of City Council bills on the grounds that the proposed legislation doesn't help the agency do better this year on its safety goals.
February 14, 2023
Tuesday’s Headlines: Fix the BQE/Love is In The Air Edition
It's Valentine's Day — and nothing gets the hearts of Streetsblog's staff jumping like a potential highway removal. Plus other news.
February 14, 2023
Comptroller Lander: Make City Drivers Safer By Punishing Agencies for Crashes
The comptroller says that settlements to victims of crashes caused by city workers in city vehicles should be paid for by the agency whose worker caused the damage — instead of from the general city budget — as a way to get agency brass to incentivize safety.
February 12, 2023
Opinion: Debunking the Lies of Vickie Paladino is Crucial to Understanding the Bikelash
Yes, it's time to take on another cultural artifact in the seemingly never-ending fight to fix our streets as well as open up a time capsule that might one day show where the political discourse stood in the post-truth world of 2023.
February 10, 2023
Thursday’s Headlines: ‘Inside Edition’ Gets Action Edition
You won't be-leaf this — our editor was on a national news show!
February 9, 2023
Wednesday’s Headlines: Speaker Adams’s Ongoing Assault on Congestion Pricing Edition
Council Speaker Adrienne Adams can't stop trashing congestion pricing as bad for her constituents ... when it in fact, it will be good for them. Plus other news.
February 8, 2023
Council ‘Almost There’ on Permanent Open Restaurants: Speaker Adams
The head of the restive Council said lawmakers are struggling to account for the needs of restaurant owners as well as the differing needs of the many diverse neighborhoods of the city, Adams said at a Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce breakfast.
February 7, 2023
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Announces a Delancey Street ‘Road Diet’ … But Doesn’t Know What It Is
Sen. Kristen Gillibrand on Monday joined fellow federal, state, and local pols to announce an $18-million federal grant to redesign dangerous Delancey Street with accessibility upgrades, a separated bike lane, and a road diet — but New York's two-term senator didn’t know what a road diet is.
February 7, 2023
