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.