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.
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.
