The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.

Boy did Council Member Gale Brewer let DOT know that she wants a bike lane through Central Park. Sophia Lebowitz attended the West Side fixture’s town hall meeting and brought home the bacon to Streetsblog readers.

Meanwhile, Max White covers a burgeoning grassroots effort to get Mayor Mamdani to slow down cars across the city.

And that’s not all…

  • 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.
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