The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Mayor Adams’s signature achievement, the City of Yes for Housing Opportunities, is only as good as its implementation. So for starters, Streetsblog came up with a rating system to encourage developers to get busy picking the low-hanging fruit: low-density neighborhoods that could take a bit more density.
Meanwhile, Dave Colon took a lot at one of the Adams administration’s signature disgraces: its effort to get ride of a protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue.
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.”
