The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Again, we have so many stories for you today:
1. The DOT is adding a lot more truck routes, which the agency says will make it easier to monitor where trucks are, but some critics say isn’t solving the problem of trucks in residential areas.
2. We also have two great upstate stories out of Albany Bureau Chief Austin C. Jefferson: First, he looked at how the only county in the state without transit service is setting out to change that. And second, he gets the word out about a terrible bill that Reinvent Albany hopes Gov. Hochul will veto.
3. Nolan Hicks looks at an Upper West Side philanthropist who was run down and killed by a van driver on Sunday.
4. And don’t miss our stories from yesterday, including an op-ed from two Council members who are upset at Speaker Adrienne Adams for killing the daylighting bill.
And, finally, we will always remember where we were when we heard Pete Alonso had signed with the Orioles (at our desks throwing our computers across the freakin’ room).
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.
Officer James Giovansanti can’t drive an NYPD squad car — at least for now.
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.
DOT’s redesign will put 24/7 bus lanes in both directions on the crosstown corridor from Fifth Avenue to Pleasant Avenue.
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.
A lawsuit to force Mayor Mamdani to reinstate criminal summonses for low-level e-bike violations got a lot of press. Plus the news.
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.
The same activism that saved the Brooklyn Heights Promenade could bring down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
