The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
It started with a simple premise: What happened to the 10 drivers who killed pedestrians in January 2025? We waited a year to make sure all these cases had gone through the full NYPD investigation process, and what we found was appalling: Three drivers weren’t charged at all, and the rest received punishment so low that a monthly cable bill costs more.
What’s a life worth in NYC? About $50 — if it ends under the wheels of a car. Check out Nolan Hicks’s story below.
Plus today’s headlines and coverage of Mayor Mamdani’s latest effort to fight pro-car revanchism.
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.”
The good news? It could have been worse. The bad news? It’s still pretty bad.
