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.
Mayor Mamdani is giving the Jay Street busway a new life by adding a pair of bus boarding islands to a chaotic area of the bus-first thoroughfare where cyclists, pedestrians and buses all compete for space.
Good design is great, but if you can’t afford it, you can’t have babies. A very special edition of the podcast with the always provocative Blaine Brownell.