The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.

Yesterday, we learned from former Chief of Department John Chell that the NYPD’s right wing bias is totally real.

It’s not like he called us up and told us. No, he continued his practice of foaming at the mouth all over his retirement laptop. You gotta read David Meyer’s story on the subject, which is just below today’s headlines.

  • Officer James Giovansanti gets into a car driven by another NYPD officer.
    NYPD Won’t Let Super-Speeder Cop Drive Squad Cars As Internal Affairs Launches Probe Following Streetsblog Report
    by Sammy Sussman
    June 26, 2026
    Officer James Giovansanti can’t drive an NYPD squad car — at least for now.
  • FDNY Brass Lobby Against Bronx Harlem River Greenway
    by Kevin Duggan
    June 26, 2026
    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.
  • Mamdani Gives Harlem Bus Riders Their Own Lane on E. 116th Street
    by Emily Smith
    June 26, 2026
    DOT’s redesign will put 24/7 bus lanes in both directions on the crosstown corridor from Fifth Avenue to Pleasant Avenue.
  • Friday Video: A ‘Grand’ Grand Army Plaza
    by Gersh Kuntzman
    June 26, 2026
    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.
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