The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
After the Daily News reported on a single abandoned bike that was evidence that its owner had been seized by ICE, our Summer Specialist Matthew Sage found four more chained-up two-wheelers likely brought to lower Manhattan by immigrant workers who thought they were merely making a regular court appearance only to never come out.
It’s a gripping story, and it won’t be the last.
In other news, our other amazing Summer Specialist Yoshi Omi-Jarrett journeyed to the base of the Williamsburg Bridge to watch cops entrap cyclists at a badly-designed entrance/exit. It’s a great Friday video.
Plus headlines and more news below. Have a great weekend.
Senior FDNY officials are throwing their weight around to kill a proposed protected bike lane in the Bronx, in defiance of DOT and Mayor Mamdani’s agenda.
New from Third Place News: the hope that someday, the ceremonial arch will be part of Prospect Park — a true third place for open-space-craving Brooklynites.
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.
Officer James Giovansanti can’t drive an NYPD squad car — at least for now.
Senior FDNY officials are throwing their weight around to kill a proposed protected bike lane in the Bronx, in defiance of DOT and Mayor Mamdani’s agenda.
DOT’s redesign will put 24/7 bus lanes in both directions on the crosstown corridor from Fifth Avenue to Pleasant Avenue.
New from Third Place News: the hope that someday, the ceremonial arch will be part of Prospect Park — a true third place for open-space-craving Brooklynites.
A lawsuit to force Mayor Mamdani to reinstate criminal summonses for low-level e-bike violations got a lot of press. Plus the news.
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.
The same activism that saved the Brooklyn Heights Promenade could bring down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
