The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
This morning, we can report that top DOT official Paul Ochoa will move over to the Department of Design and Construction in a move that Mayor Mamdani hopes will make the agency more efficient and nimble. We’re optimistic.
And there’s more good news in today’s newsletter, including a nice DOT plan for Linden Boulevard, and community board support for the agency’s plans on 31st Street in Queens.
Cars returned to Freedom Drive on Oct. 7 without any warning — several weeks before the city’s official schedule, which bans car from the corridor through October.
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.
Cars returned to Freedom Drive on Oct. 7 without any warning — several weeks before the city’s official schedule, which bans car from the corridor through October.
Michael Lin was fired from the State Police — for cause! — in September 2025 and started working for the Port Authority weeks later.
Everyone is talking about Low-Traffic Neighborhoods today. Plus other news.
You can play that old 50 state driving game without leaving the Big Apple. Come along and we’ll show you how.
Headlines from Friday and the weekend.
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.
