The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
We have a big story today — news of yet another bike lane project killed as the Adams administration sputters to an ignominious conclusion — as well as the launch of our annual end-of-year Streetsies Awards.
Today, we launch a week’s worth of year-in-review copy with your chance to vote for the “Advocate(s) of the Year.” Polls are open until Dec. 24 at 11:59 p.m. Vote early (and often?).
Also, this year’s Car Free Carolers album, “Christmas in New York City!” is now up on Spotify. We know you’ll cherish it this and every holiday season.
Also, don’t miss some news that we posted after close of business on Friday. It’s all in today’s jam-packed newsletter!
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.
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.
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
Officer James Giovansanti can’t drive an NYPD squad car — at least for now.
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.
DOT’s redesign will put 24/7 bus lanes in both directions on the crosstown corridor from Fifth Avenue to Pleasant Avenue.
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.
A lawsuit to force Mayor Mamdani to reinstate criminal summonses for low-level e-bike violations got a lot of press. Plus the news.
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
The same activism that saved the Brooklyn Heights Promenade could bring down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Streetsblog Editor-in-Chief Gersh Kuntzman is in Ithaca on Thursday for a panel on the state of local journalism. Plus the real news.
The longtime Assembly member appears to have lost to the upstart Onondaga County Legislator in the Democratic primary for a key upstate seat.
