The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
TGIF and welcome to the Friday newsletter!
Today’s top story from Sophia Lebowitz exposes how food-delivery app HungryPanda pressured workers to make dangerous bike deliveries during last month’s blizzard, according to deliverymen who accused the company of dispatching them to closed businesses — then not paying them accordingly.
Plus: Two ways the NYPD disappointed us this week — the real impact of placard corruption AND victim-blaming a child for their death.
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.”
