The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our top story today: Please, sir, can we have some more … pedestrian space?
Two Midtown community boards asked the Mamdani administration to make its Park Avenue plan even bolder — and Streetsblog gives you all the details (and a classic illustration by the Streetsblog Photoshop Desk).
Also, a cyclist was struck by a police officer in a squad car on Schermerhorn Street last week — we’ve got the exclusive!
Senior FDNY officials are throwing their weight around to kill a proposed protected bike lane in the Bronx, in defiance of DOT and Mayor Mamdani’s agenda.
New from Third Place News: the hope that someday, the ceremonial arch will be part of Prospect Park — a true third place for open-space-craving Brooklynites.
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.