The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
We have a couple of great news stories for you today. First, meet the firefighter who hopes to unseat anti-bike Council Member Vickie Paladino in northeast Queens.
Then, let’s hear how former FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh thinks the agency needs to be front and center in Vision Zero.
It’s an FDNY special edition! Only in Streetsblog.
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.”
