The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.

Our top story today: How did a once obscure Buffalo-area lawmaker go from distancing herself from congestion pricing, to defending it, to pausing it, to championing it, to cutting the fee? J.K. Trotter has the story.

Plus other news from a busy day on the streets beat.

  • ‘Mountable’ No More? City Says New Bike Lane Design on Grand Concourse Will Curb Illegal Parking
    by Kevin Duggan
    June 25, 2026
    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.
  • Opinion: The Case for Letting the BQE Fail
    by J.K. Trotter
    June 25, 2026
    The same activism that saved the Brooklyn Heights Promenade could bring down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
  • Thursday’s Headlines: Far Above Cayuga’s Waters Edition
    by Gersh Kuntzman
    June 25, 2026
    Streetsblog Editor-in-Chief Gersh Kuntzman is in Ithaca on Thursday for a panel on the state of local journalism. Plus the real news.
  • Voters Appear To Reject Powerful Assembly Transportation Chair Bill Magnarelli For DSA’s Mo Brown
    by The Editorial Team
    June 24, 2026
    The longtime Assembly member appears to have lost to the upstart Onondaga County Legislator in the Democratic primary for a key upstate seat.
  • Mamdani Moves to Ban ‘Scam’ Delivery App Motoclick For Underpaying Workers 
    by Sophia Lebowitz
    June 24, 2026
    Motoclick admitted to paying workers between $3.67 and $4.67 per hour in May — less than a quarter of the city’s minimum pay rate of $22.13, the city said.
  • Wednesday’s Headlines: A Huge Night For Livable Streets Edition
    by Gersh Kuntzman
    June 24, 2026
    A huge sweep for the kind of candidates that Streetsblog readers like. Plus other news.
  • Dems Push for Guardrails to Shield Federal Transportation Grants From Trump Meddling
    by The Editorial Team
    June 24, 2026
    Will Senate Democrats leverage the proposed Build America 250 Act to end President Trump’s meddling in transportation funding?
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