The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
That logo above can mean only one thing: It’s time for our annual December Donation Drive. But this year, we’re doing something different: Our most supportive donors get a special only-in-New-York-kids perk: A completely-real-looking Streetsblog “official” parody parking placard.
Be the first on your block to flaunt this laminated piece of New York history: a symbol of status that is also simultaneously a spoof of the city’s placard elite.
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Also in today’s news digest: An MIT grad student has found a flaw in how the city counts cyclists. And join Editor Gersh Kuntzman as he does more drugs in the 10th Avenue bike lane (it’s for a good cause!).
And don’t miss yesterday’s late-breaking news about the city’s secure bike parking plans.
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.
So what’s the deal with that exploding car? Plus other news.
