The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
We start the newsletter with today’s headlines, but the top story today is the city’s failure — for the second year in a row — to open the Red Hook Pool on schedule.
The most-serious heat wave is on its way, but kids in Red Hook will remain sweltering as the Parks Department makes repairs it could have made months ago.
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.