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.
Mayor Mamdani’s bike lane projects keep running into the same foe: a retirement-aged Manhattan lawyer and convicted securities fraudster who has sued NYC DOT five times in three boroughs, to little success.
Mayor Mamdani’s bike lane projects keep running into the same foe: a retirement-aged Manhattan lawyer and convicted securities fraudster who has sued NYC DOT five times in three boroughs, to little success.
We’re back with an epic “ICYMI” list, except the “Y” is a “W” and it stands for we.
“Strong reforms are necessary if we’re going to have public transit agencies that are successful,” says this week’s guest.
A cop drove recklessly, struck a woman, lied about it, and got his friends to lie about it, Queens prosecutors say.
The latest victim? Nurse Jiaya Zheng, who was struck mere blocks from the medical center where she worked … and was taken before she died.
Here’s important information for readers while Streetsblog’s staff undertake four days of professional development and cocktails.
