The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our top story today is more bewildering — and difficult to explain — policing from the NYPD. This time, we (again!) caught cops writing almost all their tickets to Black and Latino cyclists. When we asked the agency about it, we caught them in a lie. It’s all in Editor Gersh Kuntzman’s expose.
And we have a great story from Kevin Duggan about pedestrianizing the Financial District, which is so long overdue that the library is going to have to give it amnesty. (That’s an overdue book joke for those of you who still use libraries.)
But most important was our late-breaking Friday story about a Queens judge’s stunning decision to order the Department of Transportation to tear up the 31st Street protected bike lane in Astoria. David Meyer did the breaking news story below, but the nearly unprecedented decision. combined with what appears at first blush to be terrible lawyering by the city, will be the stuff of multiple follow-up stories today, thanks to the hard-working staff that your December donations help fund.
In their latest video, the current and former NYC public school students of the Joint Transit Association have some concerns about Mayor Mamdani’s plan to rebuild the BQE.
The city cut the days drivers in a small sliver of Brooklyn had to move their cars for street cleaning — and they still broke the rules!
We want our kids off their phones and reading books in the library. Too bad drivers don’t give a shit. A rant from Streetsblog Editor Gersh Kuntzman.
In their latest video, the current and former NYC public school students of the Joint Transit Association have some concerns about Mayor Mamdani’s plan to rebuild the BQE.
Streetsblog’s longtime editor will take on new challenges. And so will his successor.
Pay no attention to Mayor Mamdani’s failure on Bedford Avenue. Plus other news.
Citi Bike’s private operator Lyft has amassed considerable leverage over the city, experts warned.
