The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.

Today’s newsletter features a lead story about a clear-and-present danger: illegal, super-fast mini-motorcycles that are wrongly advertised as “e-bikes.”

But further below you’ll find today’s headlines, which are filled with news of carnage committed by car drivers.

So just in time for early voting to start on Sunday, Streetsblog offers two more items on the “to-do” list for likely Mayor Mamdani. You’re welcome.

  • Officer James Giovansanti gets into a car driven by another NYPD officer.
    NYPD Won’t Let Super-Speeder Cop Drive Squad Cars As Internal Affairs Launches Probe Following Streetsblog Report
    by Sammy Sussman
    June 26, 2026
    Officer James Giovansanti can’t drive an NYPD squad car — at least for now.
  • FDNY Brass Lobby Against Bronx Harlem River Greenway
    by Kevin Duggan
    June 26, 2026
    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.
  • Mamdani Gives Harlem Bus Riders Their Own Lane on E. 116th Street
    by Emily Smith
    June 26, 2026
    DOT’s redesign will put 24/7 bus lanes in both directions on the crosstown corridor from Fifth Avenue to Pleasant Avenue.
  • Friday Video: A ‘Grand’ Grand Army Plaza
    by Gersh Kuntzman
    June 26, 2026
    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.
  • Friday’s Headlines: Bad Lawsuit Edition
    by David Meyer
    June 26, 2026
    A lawsuit to force Mayor Mamdani to reinstate criminal summonses for low-level e-bike violations got a lot of press. Plus the news.
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