Monday's Headlines: Closed for Labor Day Edition - Streetsblog New York City
It's time for the best parade of the year. Plus the weekend's news (so far).| nyc.streetsblog.org
VTA's Sam Sargent on the past, present and future of transit in the South Bay.| Streetsblog New York City
The bill would require safety equipment, plus a safety course.| Streetsblog New York City
The opening of school means it's time for readin', writin' and butcherin'. Plus other news.| Streetsblog New York City
And the NYPD has completely clammed up about the crash caused by one of its officers. State AG Letitia James is now investigating.| Streetsblog New York City
A 9-year-old shares his experience of riding on DOT’s Summer Streets by himself.| Streetsblog New York City
The weather is going to be stupendous again, so get out there ... after reading today's news digest.| Streetsblog New York City
Advocates are still concerned about a project that will widen five bridges and create a temporary roadway.| Streetsblog New York City
After an all-out campaign against a minimum wage for its workers, Instacart now claims it "supports" the bill. But that's just "a flat-out lie," said one worker advocate.| Streetsblog New York City
Finally, an honorable pol makes the choice to retire before everyone grows to hate him. Plus other news.| Streetsblog New York City
It's time for the best parade of the year. Plus the weekend's news (so far).| nyc.streetsblog.org
Sean Duffy became the latest in a long line of politicians to make big promises about New York Penn Station. Plus more news.| nyc.streetsblog.org
First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro is Eric Adams's latest point-man for handicapping Eric Adams's agenda. Plus more news.| nyc.streetsblog.org
DOT's nascent effort to convert 70 curbside spots on the Upper West Side from free to metered parking is on hold after drivers threw a fit.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The boulevard of death will get a full safety project after all.| nyc.streetsblog.org
"He only raises the concerns [of] car drivers," one official said. "He’s never been on the pro-pedestrianization, pro-bike-lane side.”| nyc.streetsblog.org
Zohran Mamdani vowed to complete street redesigns that Eric Adams killed due to political pressure and, in at least one case, alleged bribes.| nyc.streetsblog.org
What could possibly go wrong? Perhaps we get safer streets. Perhaps every taxi driver loses his or her job.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The mayor's former top adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, thought she'd gotten a big acting break. But it was the beginning of the end. Plus other news.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Imagine destroying everything you've spent decades building to stop the city from building a bike lane. Welcome to Gina and Tony Argentos' world.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Two members of a powerful Brooklyn theatrical production family bribed Mayor Adams's chief adviser to block the safety redesign of McGuinness Boulevard, court papers show.| nyc.streetsblog.org
So much corruption, so little time. Plus other news.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Covering the fight for livable streets and the battle against car dependency.| nyc.streetsblog.org
New York City leaders will close the "Instacart loophole" and force all app companies to pay workers a minimum wage.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Recently arrived immigrants from Africa are turning to Instacart with few other options for work.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The Adams administration is supposed to install 25 of them by the end of September. What's going on?| nyc.streetsblog.org
A public hearing about Mayor Adams's proposed speed limit devolved into a debate about e-bike licensing, naturally.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The city's priorities are completely backwards.| nyc.streetsblog.org
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has justified her criminal crackdown on cycling by saying that complaints about cyclists are the most frequent concerns she hears. Such complaints could be coming from inside the house.| nyc.streetsblog.org
A Brooklyn woman recalls how a brush with the dangers of New York City streets reinforced her desire for better bike lanes in Brooklyn.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Much as our contributor hates to admit it, she thinks twice every time she gets on her bike since being hit by an e-bike.| nyc.streetsblog.org
At least four bicycles and one moped are chained up and seemingly abandoned outside the federal courthouse. They are symbols of America's war on immigrants.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Instacart is arguing that its services are a lifeline to low income New Yorkers, but the app makes groceries 75 percent more expensive.| nyc.streetsblog.org
State lawmakers are already trying to chip away at the already-promising congestion pricing program. Plus other news.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The Department of Transportation has not moved forward with a series of ambitious rule changes that would have improved cycling and encouraged more people to get around on two wheels, Streetsblog has learned.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Summer Streets is great — can we do this every weekend? Um, no.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The city has still not implemented regulations that it said more than three years ago would improve safety — and one activist thinks the tweaks are dead.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Here's a story about a cyclist named Lee, who got a ticket for "running" a red light.| nyc.streetsblog.org
No matter how you slice it, the main danger remains car drivers.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The Department of Transportation may be moving forward with a welter of ambitious rule changes designed to make cycling safer and less likely to attract the attention of police.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Cop culture + car culture = more SUVs for New York's Finest!| nyc.streetsblog.org
The exchange between Streetsblog and Hizzoner was telling.| nyc.streetsblog.org
"There are no shortage of issues we want the NYPD to be better at, and this is one of them," Donovan Richards said.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The highly-anticipated 34th Street busway may not happen under Mayor Adams after all, sources said.| nyc.streetsblog.org
DOT wants to install a center-running bus lane on Flatbush Avenue north of Grand Army Plaza this year, but will Mayor Adams get cold feet?| nyc.streetsblog.org
A 2022 report from the former Democrat promised to expand labor protections to more app delivery workers, but he won't commit to supporting Council bills trying to do just that.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Instacart is trying everything to pressure the mayor to veto a bill that would require the company to pay its workers minimum wage.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The bus-first transformation is an ambitious project that could speed buses by 20 percent while also calming the roadway's notorious traffic. But it's not perfect.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Eric Adams's negligence can be the next mayor's easy wins.| nyc.streetsblog.org
New York City needs a lot more money to handle storms like the one it experienced on Monday. Plus more news.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg dropped charges against a 30-year-old cyclist who NYPD falsely accused of fleeing the scene.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Carolyn Backus is charged with fleeing the scene of a crash causing serious injury, but the details are murky.| nyc.streetsblog.org
A cottage industry of unlicensed, unregulated driving schools targets the state’s immigrant population, evading the system carefully set up for safety.| nyc.streetsblog.org
... And will the Idaho Stop become a victim of the current bikelash? It's all in today's Capitol Idea by Amy Sohn.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Quietly, the NYPD has changed policy and will now make criminal cases against cyclists who go through red lights, a change that will have predictable and unpredictable ramifications.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Why has the NYPD prioritized writing red-light tickets to the lightest, slowest-moving vehicles instead of doubling-down on enforcement against 3,000-pound-plus killing machines?| nyc.streetsblog.org
On the one hand: no! On the other hand, well, he certainly thinks he can!| nyc.streetsblog.org
The Department of Transportation quietly caved to car owners when it tweaked a plan to dramatically limit northbound traffic on a narrow Brooklyn avenue slated to get the agency's "bike boulevard" treatment, Streetsblog has learned.| nyc.streetsblog.org
"It would be contrary to notions of basic fairness to reward a powerful special interest with a $22 million handout," Reinvent Albany said.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Congestion pricing has led to a 7.5-percent drop in traffic in the Central Business District below 60th Street, the MTA said on Monday.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The Police Department boasted nabbing two would-be toll evaders with obscured plates, but more needs to be done.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The gridlock governor threw herself a celebratory press conference on Tuesday and tried to explain why this time she really did support the traffic toll.| nyc.streetsblog.org
They like to whine, but Jersey officials are also counting the money.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Ask not what the MTA can do for your country — ask what you can do for the MTA.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The road to more housing is paved with lots of people who don't want to give up parking, as the mayor is finding as his City of Yes plan goes forward.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Signal upgrades key to improving subway service hang in the balance as lawsuits threaten congestion pricing — a key source of MTA funding.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Some costs were provided, but outside observers were baffled why the MTA neglected to say how much the repair and refresh part would cost.| nyc.streetsblog.org
A two-faced mayor has yielded to Two Trees.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Meh. The barriers are gone and the cars are back on W. 22nd, but some spaces for people remain.| nyc.streetsblog.org
City Hall is intervening in yet another street redesign project, and supporters fear it could be the start of dismantling other improvements.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Clarence Eckerson Jr. takes you much deeper inside the transformation of 34th Avenue, thanks to extensive access to DOT Deputy Commissioner Eric Beaton and Director of Public Space Emily Weidenhof.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The Adams administration announced a watered down redesign of Brooklyn's McGuinness Boulevard that cedes ground to bike lane opponents.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The open street will get permanent traffic-calming infrastructure because DOT didn't bow to some locals who opposed the upgrades due to "loss" of parking.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The city plans to install protected bike lanes on both sides of deadly McGuinness Boulevard and remove a car lane in each direction as part of a major redesign of the highway-like north Brooklyn road, Streetsblog has learned.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Adams administration official have held up yet another long-planned street redesign at the behest of a major local business opposed to the plan.| nyc.streetsblog.org
While he’s said nothing about the issue publicly, the congressman has been quietly assembling opposition to proposed bus lane upgrades in recent weeks, four officials told Streetsblog.| nyc.streetsblog.org
DOT officials informed the project's community advisory board on May 31 of their intention to kill the Bronx busway and instead shift existing bus lanes away from the curb and extend them by several blocks, according to a presentation posted online late Friday afternoon.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Well-connected Bronx businesses don't want Mayor Adams to improve bus service.| nyc.streetsblog.org
By channeling the very rhetoric of the toll's car-centric opponents, the governor has undermined her stated goal of improving the city.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The Adams Doctrine on safe streets has become clear. And, yes, it involves a metaphor of drowning rats.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The upper ranks of the city Department of Transportation have been depleted by an exodus of high-skilled employees this year, reflecting mounting frustration among some staff members and making it harder for the agency to fulfill its mission.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The place has become a north Brooklyn staple in just six weeks.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Mayor's "City of Yes" housing plan facing resistance from Queens' opponents of greater housing density.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Mandated parking minimums have shaped the city since the 1950s, one Brooklyn block shows the impact of this restrictive zoning policy on housing stock.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The governor's decision threatens nearly every commitment New York leaders made to the transit system after the 2017 "Summer of Hell."| nyc.streetsblog.org
Eric Adams's plan to harness congestion pricing's impact on traffic is mostly old news and far less than what advocates say is necessary.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Transit boss Richard Davey urged MTA workers to "follow the rules" ahead of the city's busway conversion of Livingston Street in Brooklyn.| nyc.streetsblog.org
"This partnership is the definition of ‘Get Stuff Done,'" Mayor Adams said.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The northernmost block of of Bedford Avenue in Greenpoint will be an around-the-clock pedestrian plaza through Aug. 12.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Berry Street has become a model for what low-traffic streets can look like.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The Adams administration will conduct more "analysis" before finalizing its redesign of deadly McGuinness Boulevard — and safety advocates are stunned.| nyc.streetsblog.org
At least this Greenpoint street safety project is moving along!| nyc.streetsblog.org
Adams's reversal represents the latest tine he's delayed or watered down transportation projects because of powerful opponents.| nyc.streetsblog.org
The street could join parcels of McCarren Park bifurcated by cars.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Commuters who have been forced since June 28 to take a shuttle bus between Court Square and Bedford-Nostrand say the shuttle bus is just so frustrating!| nyc.streetsblog.org
New data from the city's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection shows minimum wage is bringing order to a previously wild industry.| nyc.streetsblog.org
Here’s what’s to like about the Traffic Mobility Review Board's central business district toll recommendations. It's a lot!| nyc.streetsblog.org
