The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
BREAKING NEWS: Zohran Mamdani will become mayor in an abandoned subway station, a fitting symbol of a man looking to the future, while honoring the past. Dave Colon has the world exclusive.
We also continue our year-end “Streetsie Awards” with a Gersh Kuntzman roundup of the forgotten moments of the year.
One thing that’s not forgotten? How bad a mayor Eric Adams was for bus riders — but we have Dave Colon to remind us all anew.
We’ll have more news tomorrow as we wind down 2025.
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.