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.
In their latest video, the current and former NYC public school students of the Joint Transit Association have some concerns about Mayor Mamdani’s plan to rebuild the BQE.
Representatives of more than one-quarter of the city are demanding that the Mamdani administration designate their neighborhoods as “Slow Zones,” by taking advantage of a state law that allows the mayor to reduce car speeds to 20 mph.
The city cut the days drivers in a small sliver of Brooklyn had to move their cars for street cleaning — and they still broke the rules!
We want our kids off their phones and reading books in the library. Too bad drivers don’t give a shit. A rant from Streetsblog Editor Gersh Kuntzman.
In their latest video, the current and former NYC public school students of the Joint Transit Association have some concerns about Mayor Mamdani’s plan to rebuild the BQE.
Streetsblog’s longtime editor will take on new challenges. And so will his successor.
Pay no attention to Mayor Mamdani’s failure on Bedford Avenue. Plus other news.
Citi Bike’s private operator Lyft has amassed considerable leverage over the city, experts warned.
Representatives of more than one-quarter of the city are demanding that the Mamdani administration designate their neighborhoods as “Slow Zones,” by taking advantage of a state law that allows the mayor to reduce car speeds to 20 mph.
