The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.

Take that, car owners! Mayor Mamdani is poised to announce on April 1 that he’ll create Rome-style piazzas all over Queens as part of his livability agenda.

We’ve also leaned that a dozen members of the City Council have formed a counterweight caucus to challenge Hizzoner’s pro-bike, pro-bus agenda: It’s called DRIVE (Develop Roads In Virtually Everyplace).

Visit our site later on April 1 for some more news!

  • ‘Mountable’ No More? City Says New Bike Lane Design on Grand Concourse Will Curb Illegal Parking
    by Kevin Duggan
    June 25, 2026
    The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
  • Opinion: The Case for Letting the BQE Fail
    by J.K. Trotter
    June 25, 2026
    The same activism that saved the Brooklyn Heights Promenade could bring down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
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