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.
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.”
The good news? It could have been worse. The bad news? It’s still pretty bad.
