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.
Two decades after a major rezoning, the city should continue to emphasize pedestrians, cyclists and bus riders in Downtown Brooklyn in order to make the best possible version of the neighborhood as a residential and job center.
Treating the arrival of United Nations diplomats to our world-class city as a burden rather than asset shows the dearth of quality public space in New York — and shows we are not the envy of the world.
Two decades after a major rezoning, the city should continue to emphasize pedestrians, cyclists and bus riders in Downtown Brooklyn in order to make the best possible version of the neighborhood as a residential and job center.
It’s a four-way clusterfuck because … cars.
Mayor Mamdani set met with Paris’s new mayor, Emmanuel Grégoire. Plus other news.
One teenager on a bike was killed, and another injured, by a truck driver making a right turn at a busy intersection in the East Village, cops said.
Treating the arrival of United Nations diplomats to our world-class city as a burden rather than asset shows the dearth of quality public space in New York — and shows we are not the envy of the world.
