The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
We start today with a huge and detailed investigation into shortcomings of the effort to help troubled or disorderly people at the end of the line in Coney Island, where last year a homeless woman was burned to death mere feet away from cops. What went wrong? Nolan Hicks brings you inside.
Also, David Meyer looks at Andrew Cuomo’s record. It ain’t good.
The Knick parade showed again that car-free streets are care-free streets! Plus other news.
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.
