The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Is it great that Streetsblog now has an upstate edition, Streetsblog Empire State? Today, our lead story comes from excelsior-minded reporter Austin C. Jefferson, who followed Mayor Mamdani around the State Capitol yesterday.
We also have a great story about how no one at City Hall is moving to implement Sammy’s Law to lower citywide speed limits to 20 miles per hour.
Such a move could improve safety … which brings us to our next story, by new associate reporter Max White, who digested a complex MIT report and spat out a great story.
We’ll have more news later today. What a team. What a Streetsblog.
Troopers based in NYC routinely blew off their duties to chill, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one notorious case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assault, Streetsblog has learned.
MTA fare enforcement “EAGLE teams” will trial fare inspections on moving buses instead of holding up riders, officials said.
Troopers based in NYC routinely blew off their duties to chill, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one notorious case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assault, Streetsblog has learned.
It’s time to celebrate Streetsblog’s 20th anniversary. Plus other news.
The project had been announced under Mayor Eric Adams, but never implemented.
Mamdani could make the World’s Borough the “envy of the world.”
