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!
President Trump sort of inadvertently made an argument for banning horse carriages from Central Park on Thursday when he critiicized the City Council’s 40-7-2 vote to end the Central Park horse carriage industry with an ill-conceived analogy to cars.
The city’s much-anticipated program to require speed-limiting devices inside the cars of repeatedly reckless drivers will launch next year, though questions remain.