The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Let’s welcome new law enforcement reporter Sammy Sussman to Streetsblog in the only way we know how: by publishing a crackerjack story about how Mayor Mamdani appears to be breaking one of his key campaign vows: Getting more independent oversight of the NYPD.
It’s a story you won’t read anywhere else, and we’re proud of Sussman coming out of the gate like that. You’ve read his work in the New York Times and in NY Focus, but now he’s at Streetsblog, so watch his byline closely.
In other news: Truck routes, temp tags and today’s headlines. See you Monday!
President Trump sort of inadvertently made an argument for banning horse carriages from Central Park on Thursday when he critiicized the City Council’s 40-7-2 vote to end the Central Park horse carriage industry with an ill-conceived analogy to cars.
The city’s much-anticipated program to require speed-limiting devices inside the cars of repeatedly reckless drivers will launch next year, though questions remain.