The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
The NYPD installed a haywire speed alert sign in Central Park in an attempt to educate cyclists on the eve of next week’s 15-mile-per-hour speed limit. But as Nolan Hicks found out, the sign only spewed misinformation.
Plus, make sure you don’t miss Dave Colon’s latest piece about $33 million in anti-crime funding that the Trump administration tried to claw back from the MTA. On Thursday, a judge told the president, “Not so fast.”
Plus other news. Have a great weekend. And don’t forget to join our editor on Saturday at the monthly “Power Joker” show (a fun parody of Robert Moses) at Caveat on the Lower East Side. Info here.
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.”
