The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.

Since we last talked, President Trump threatened the city and state with unspecified funding cuts if the city Department of Transportation completes a long-planned, not-particularly-controversial bus lane project on 34th Street in Manhattan.

Today’s newsletter has information from other outlets (in today’s headlines) and our own coverage of Friday’s hastily called rally.

Oh, and we’ll be following up, you can bet on it.

  • Voters Appear To Reject Powerful Assembly Transportation Chair Bill Magnarelli For DSA’s Mo Brown
    by The Editorial Team
    June 24, 2026
    The longtime Assembly member appears to have lost to the upstart Onondaga County Legislator in the Democratic primary for a key upstate seat.
  • Mamdani Moves to Ban ‘Scam’ Delivery App Motoclick For Underpaying Workers 
    by Sophia Lebowitz
    June 24, 2026
    Motoclick admitted to paying workers between $3.67 and $4.67 per hour in May — less than a quarter of the city’s minimum pay rate of $22.13, the city said.
  • Wednesday’s Headlines: A Huge Night For Livable Streets Edition
    by Gersh Kuntzman
    June 24, 2026
    A huge sweep for the kind of candidates that Streetsblog readers like. Plus other news.
  • Dems Push for Guardrails to Shield Federal Transportation Grants From Trump Meddling
    by The Editorial Team
    June 24, 2026
    Will Senate Democrats leverage the proposed Build America 250 Act to end President Trump’s meddling in transportation funding?
  • New York’s Fined-est: Meet the Reckless Cops With Thousands in Tickets
    by Sammy Sussman
    June 24, 2026
    A single unmarked NYPD car has been nabbed by city speeding cameras hundreds of times over the past three years — but there’s no paperwork disputing the tickets as essential to police work.
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