The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Today is the Labor Day farewell to the summer, so we here at Streetsblog will take one last day to recharge our e-bike batteries before hitting the fall like an early season hurricane. We’ll have full coverage of the mayoral election, full coverage of the current mayor’s ongoing ethical challenges, full coverage of the fight to protect delivery workers from exploitive work in the app salt mines and, of course, full coverage of everything the city DOT can and can’t accomplish before a new mayor comes in with a broom.
For now, here are a few stories you might have missed from last week, including the violent arrest of a Citi Bike rider, a long-overdue plan to pedestrianize Lower Manhattan, and full team coverage of how the Adams administration has allegedly traded street safety for bribes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Streetsblog Editor-in-Chief Gersh Kuntzman is in Ithaca on Thursday for a panel on the state of local journalism. Plus the real news.
The longtime Assembly member appears to have lost to the upstart Onondaga County Legislator in the Democratic primary for a key upstate seat.
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.
A huge sweep for the kind of candidates that Streetsblog readers like. Plus other news.
Will Senate Democrats leverage the proposed Build America 250 Act to end President Trump’s meddling in transportation funding?
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.
Memo of agreement? To Janno Lieber, the Amtrak offer sounds more like a memo of disagreement!
