The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
We hope you had a great weekend, but if you didn’t, we have a full slate of great stories for you today to turn that frown around.
First, our lead story looks at Kevin Duggan’s white whale: The Mamdani administration’s failure to reverse a poor decision by the Adams administration that allowed cars back into Silver Lake Park in Staten Island and Forest Park in Queens.
Also, Sammy Sussman updates us on a state police officer whose conduct was so bad that he was permanently barred from being a cop. Where is he now? Oh, working for the Port Authority!
And don’t miss Poppy Wilkinson’s tour of the 50 states — conducted entirely from the confines of the five boroughs.
President Trump sort of inadvertently made an argument for banning horse carriages from Central Park on Thursday when he critiicized the City Council’s 40-7-2 vote to end the Central Park horse carriage industry with an ill-conceived analogy to cars.
The city’s much-anticipated program to require speed-limiting devices inside the cars of repeatedly reckless drivers will launch next year, though questions remain.