The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
The streets around our offices in Lower Manhattan were filled on Tuesday with federal agents seeking to arrest illegal vendors in a crackdown that had nothing to do with violent crime and everything to do with intimidation.
We were there in a special edition of today’s headlines.
But please leave room for desert, in the form of our other stories.
Mayor Mamdani is giving the Jay Street busway a new life by adding a pair of bus boarding islands to a chaotic area of the bus-first thoroughfare where cyclists, pedestrians and buses all compete for space.
All trucks should have side guards! Yet the city only mandates some trucks get the life-saving, easy-to-install barriers.
Dekalb and Lafayette avenues are getting makeovers that will put give bike riders their fair share of the roads.
Another Central Park tragedy. Plus more news.
The 71-year-old bicyclist was riding on the East Drive near 84th Street at around 8:20 a.m. when he “collided with a dog that ran onto the roadway.”
The Hochul administration is slow-walking safety on the West Side Highway as more and more people suffer injuries or worse on the corridor.
Mayor Mamdani is giving the Jay Street busway a new life by adding a pair of bus boarding islands to a chaotic area of the bus-first thoroughfare where cyclists, pedestrians and buses all compete for space.
