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.

Read all that and more in the links below.

  • Teamsters Prez Calls On Menin To Pass Mamdani-Backed Delivery Bill, But She’s Not Ready
    by Sophia Lebowitz
    October 23, 2026
    The Teamsters are fighting anti-union Amazon and the battleground is New York City streets.
  • Friday’s Headlines: Trump’s Truths Edition
    by David Meyer
    October 23, 2026
    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.
  • Super-Speeder Law Takes One Big Leap Forward, As Council Pushes Bill To Create The Program
    by Sammy Sussman
    October 22, 2026
    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.
  • EAGLE Down: MTA Pulls Fare Enforcement Agents From Bus System
    by Dave Colon
    October 22, 2026
    “I’m not willing to keep our teams active in the field,” Lieber said on Thursday morning.
  • Emily Singleton and Lucie Vágnerová at the first start line of CRCA’s 2026 season.
    An Interview with Central Park’s Most Storied Competitive Cycling Club
    by J.K. Trotter
    October 22, 2026
    Streetsblog interviewed the president and public relations director of the Century Road Club Association.
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