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The United Nations General Assembly is typically met with groans from New York City commuters of all modes. But Streetsblog contributor Jon Orcutt has another idea: Turn the General Assembly’s need to curtail East Side vehicle traffic into a good, or even great thing.
UNGA is an opportunity for large-scale pedestrianization, Orcutt argues on our site today.
Read more about his vision below, along with the latest from Mamdani DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn’s appearance at the 2026 NYC Greenways Summit.
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.
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.