The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Earlier this year, the city Department of Transportation put out a flawed report on daylighting — so flawed that its flaws were, in fact, cited as flaws in the flawed report! — so we were obviously excited to cover a new report, this time from the City Council, that corrects the record on this well-known safety feature.
In addition, we have an exclusive post from former DOT Commissioner “Hammerin'” Hank Gutman offering advice for Mayor-Elect Mamdani on what kind of person he should pick for the most-important job in town.
And newcomer J.K. Trotter offers his take on Elise Stefanik’s transit-snubbing run for governor.
Plus make sure to scroll down for lots more coverage you might have missed last week.
Senior FDNY officials are throwing their weight around to kill a proposed protected bike lane in the Bronx, in defiance of DOT and Mayor Mamdani’s agenda.
New from Third Place News: the hope that someday, the ceremonial arch will be part of Prospect Park — a true third place for open-space-craving Brooklynites.
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
Officer James Giovansanti can’t drive an NYPD squad car — at least for now.
Senior FDNY officials are throwing their weight around to kill a proposed protected bike lane in the Bronx, in defiance of DOT and Mayor Mamdani’s agenda.
DOT’s redesign will put 24/7 bus lanes in both directions on the crosstown corridor from Fifth Avenue to Pleasant Avenue.
New from Third Place News: the hope that someday, the ceremonial arch will be part of Prospect Park — a true third place for open-space-craving Brooklynites.
A lawsuit to force Mayor Mamdani to reinstate criminal summonses for low-level e-bike violations got a lot of press. Plus the news.
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
The same activism that saved the Brooklyn Heights Promenade could bring down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
