The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Sophia Lebowitz continues her monthlong coverage of how Instacart is lobbying — completely disingenuously, if we do say so — Mayor Adams to veto a bill requiring the company to pay its workers the normal delivery worker minimum wage.
Meanwhile, in Red Hook, sweltering residents may finally get some relief on Sunday, as the Parks Department appears finally ready to open a public pool that is a lifeline for tens of thousands of low-income New Yorkers about whom Mayor Adams claims he cares.
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.”
