The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Our top story today is Nolan Hicks’s detailed look at mayoral mobility. Zohran Mamdani ran a campaign that interacted with the public on buses, bikes and subways. What will happen now?
Plus, check out our first Albany story from new bureau chief Austin C. Jefferson, wherein the statehouse reporter confronts Gov. Hochul over here waffling on Mayor-elect Mamdani’s “free bus” promise.
Plus some federal news, a report on the danger of last-mile warehouses and today’s headlines. What a day.
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.
A single unmarked NYPD car has been nabbed by city speeding cameras hundreds of times over the past three years — but there’s no paperwork disputing the tickets as essential to police work.
The NYPD and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection have cracked down on stores that sell illegal electric two-wheelers, but the city isn’t doing anything about online sales.