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.
New York City needs to prepare for the next hot day, not just the next storm.
We were cheering “Tow New York, tow New York, tow!” as Lower Manhattan went car-free for the Knicks ticker-tape parade. Plus the news.
According to the NYPD, starting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, towing crews will remove any car that is parked south of Canal Street.
A longtime foe of congestion pricing has found another clean-air fix to hate. Oh, and he takes donations from bus companies.
Advocates are pushing the mayor to make good on his campaign promise to fund and create universal open streets in front of schools.
The NYPD Big Brother approach to public space is excessive. Plus other news.
