The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our top story today is more fallout from Mayor Mamdani’s first Manhattan Summer Streets — and how Hizzoner let the NYPD turn car-free streets into police streets.
In addition, we have a great explainer on how the state will fund the Interborough Express by Dave Colon.
Plus today’s headlines and some other juicy nuggets.
Gersh is on vacation the rest of the week. Got issues, call David Meyer.
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.