The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
We’re ending the week with some great news: The Mamdani administration will tweak the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge bike and footpath to make it easier for both users. It’s not a huge project, but it reveals that the mayor understands how tiny little design flaws — like that missing one-block protected bike lane on Ashland Place, among so many others — must be fixed.
He also understands that just because cyclists congregate somewhere — in this case, at a venerable mosque in the East Village — it’s not a police matter, as Sophia Lebowitz reports lower down in this newsletter.
Troopers based in NYC routinely blew off their duties to chill, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one notorious case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assault, Streetsblog has learned.
MTA fare enforcement “EAGLE teams” will trial fare inspections on moving buses instead of holding up riders, officials said.
Troopers based in NYC routinely blew off their duties to chill, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one notorious case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assault, Streetsblog has learned.
It’s time to celebrate Streetsblog’s 20th anniversary. Plus other news.
The project had been announced under Mayor Eric Adams, but never implemented.
Mamdani could make the World’s Borough the “envy of the world.”
The good news? It could have been worse. The bad news? It’s still pretty bad.
So what’s the deal with that exploding car? Plus other news.
