The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
This is a big newsletter for you: First, check out David Meyer’s deep analysis of a judge’s flawed ruling that requires the Department of Transportation to remove the 31st Street bike lane in Astoria. Then you get a double dose of Dave Colon (wash your hands after, please!) with a story about the MTA’s open gangway short-sightedness and a dead-on update on how New Yorkers will likely be holding the bag for President Trump’s dream of a monumental Trump, er, Penn Station.
Even I pitched in some top-quality journalism with a story yesterday about the NYPD’s apparently racial bias in some bike tickets — and the agency’s failure to explain its motivation. As we say in the business, “Gotcha!”
And make sure you start your day with today’s headlines, which again shows that congestion pricing is working … among other things.
Senior FDNY officials are throwing their weight around to kill a proposed protected bike lane in the Bronx, in defiance of DOT and Mayor Mamdani’s agenda.
New from Third Place News: the hope that someday, the ceremonial arch will be part of Prospect Park — a true third place for open-space-craving Brooklynites.
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
Officer James Giovansanti can’t drive an NYPD squad car — at least for now.
Senior FDNY officials are throwing their weight around to kill a proposed protected bike lane in the Bronx, in defiance of DOT and Mayor Mamdani’s agenda.
DOT’s redesign will put 24/7 bus lanes in both directions on the crosstown corridor from Fifth Avenue to Pleasant Avenue.
New from Third Place News: the hope that someday, the ceremonial arch will be part of Prospect Park — a true third place for open-space-craving Brooklynites.
A lawsuit to force Mayor Mamdani to reinstate criminal summonses for low-level e-bike violations got a lot of press. Plus the news.
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
