The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Nolan Hicks is back with another barn burner: After last week’s ICE raid on Canal Street devolved into violence, Hicks wondered, “Where was the NYPD to get between the protesters and the federal agents beating them up? And where was the NYPD to make sure protesters didn’t harm anyone?”
From there, we learned that it’s not so simple: We want the right to protest in public — indeed, it’s promised in the First Amendment. But who will defend that right? It turns out, the NYPD has very little maneuverability to prevent President Trump’s federal troops from beating up protesters.
As a result, our streets may indeed remain chaotic and violent if the president’s threats to send more troops comes to pass.
Read Hicks’s story … and stay tuned.
There’s a lot of other news in our email blast today, so get to it.
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.
The Department of Transportation is poised to get tens of millions dollars per year in new funding specifically to execute Mayor Mamdani’s vision for bus lanes and bike lanes around the city.
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.
So what’s the deal with that exploding car? Plus other news.
The Department of Transportation is poised to get tens of millions dollars per year in new funding specifically to execute Mayor Mamdani’s vision for bus lanes and bike lanes around the city.
