The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
At Streetsblog, we gotta hand it to Council Speaker Julie Menin. In her first month on the job, she’s already made good on a major promise: to restore outdoor dining to the full-year program is must be.
As Kevin Duggan details below (way below), she made the news early on Wednesday: to make it easier for restaurateurs, the program will no longer be seasonal, requiring eateries to set up, break down and store their outdoor dining areas for four months a year.
We also have other news, including a look at whether Mayor Mamdani will expand Fair Fares, and Austin C. Jefferson’s look at the AV problem in Albany.
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.
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.”
