The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Everyone in town is focused on a possible property tax hike in Mayor Mamdani’s first budget proposal, but we spent the day looking into the couch cushions to see if Hizzoner could scare up more money for the Department of Transportation to do life-saving work.
There’s a lot of news and views into day’s newsletter, and don’t miss Sophia Lebowitz’s exclusive on the demise of Relay, the delivery app you probably never realized you were using.
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.