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Speeding Epidemic Shows No Signs of Abating, Despite Return of Car Traffic
The summer of hell has become the fall of our discontent. Drivers are continuing to speed like mad — just as they did when roads were largely clear during the early days of the Covid-19 lockdown. In...
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The People Have Spoken: DOT Study Reveals Vast Support for Outdoor Dining
The vast majority of Manhattan residents supports outdoor dining, the highest rate of approval out of any of the five boroughs, according to a city survey quietly conducted last year (and not widely...
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Janno To Albany: Fund the MTA Like the Fire Department (Wait, Like Free?)
It’s our December donation drive. Your gift helps us do important stories. So please click here or the icon above. Could this finally kickstart a discussion of free transit? MTA Chairman and CEO Janno...
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Op-Ed: Mayor Adams’s Blind Spot on Placard Abuse is Alarming, Given His...
Eric Adams is supposed to be New York City’s first bike mayor. A frequent cyclist, Adams said during the mayoral campaign, “If elected, you’re going to see me on my bike all the time riding to and from...
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SEE IT: Streetfilms Shows How Cargo Bikes Are Revolutionizing Family Life in...
Four kids on one cargo bike? It can be done! That and other amazing and arresting images are found in Clarence Eckerson Jr.’s latest Streetfilm, “The NYC Cargo Bike Revolution: More Families take to...
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Hearing Day: Could Fees for Outdoor Dining Lead to Proper Pricing of City’s...
No more free lunch! At an epic, hours-long City Council hearing on Tuesday one key element emerged for the plan for converting the pandemic-era Open Restaurant program into a permanent one in 2023:...
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WHAT A DAY: City Erased a Popular Fort Greene Open Street — Then Reinstalled...
Updated | The Adams administration has made its first major move on open streets: erasing a stretch on Willoughby Avenue in Clinton Hill and Fort Greene, allegedly at the behest of people close to the...
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MTA’s Lieber Tells Albany Legislators that Subway Bathrooms Will Stay Closed...
She’s the Queen Pee. State Sen. Jessica Ramos accused MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber of disinterest in the face of discomfort — namely for refusing to re-open the 76 bathrooms that are scattered...
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SEE IT! Mayor Adams Visits 34th Avenue — But His Plans for ‘Gold Standard’...
Hula hoop. Jump rope. The farmers market. Lots of happy people. Safe kids. Mayor Adams made a surprise visit on Sunday to the 34th Avenue open street in Queens, a 1.5-mile stretch of Jackson Heights...
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Design Trust Releases Public Space Management ‘Toolkit’
If you build it, they will come — and keep neighborhoods safe and businesses solvent. That’s the message of the Design Trust for Public Space, which is seeking to help less-well-resourced...
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TRASH TALK: Advocates Warn Against Further Delays on Commercial Waste Zones
They don’t trust them as far as they can throw them. Elected officials and advocates are demanding that the Adams Administration moves forward quickly to implement the commercial waste zones...
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Monday’s Headlines: Déja-Virus All Over Again
Well, our old man editor got Covid over the weekend — again! — so we’ll dispense with the normally self-indulgent top he puts on these headlines and just get to the news from a busy weekend (for those...
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Staten Island’s Buses are the Most-Canceled in New York City
They’re not rolling on the Rock. Staten Island buses are canceled more frequently than those in any other borough, even as bus service gets closer to pre-pandemic norms in the other boroughs around the...
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‘School Streets’ Program Withering, Parents Blame Lack of City Support
A city program that gives schools outdoor space on neighboring streets is faltering, with fewer and fewer schools participating and those that remain consisting disproportionately of private schools in...
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OPINION: The MTA Must Reopen Its Restrooms — Now!
New York City is one of the most diverse cities in the world. But New Yorkers can always find one thing that binds us — that feeling of panic we get when, half-way into our morning commute, or our trip...
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Community Board 4 Wants Shared Street on W. 22nd — And Continued Open Street...
A Manhattan community board is calling on the city to turn the embattled W. 22nd open street into a permanent shared street and to keep the current traffic limitations in place in the meantime — the...
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EXCLU: Council Will Move Ahead with Seasonal Outdoor Dining Plan
The Council plans to make the city’s outdoor dining program permanent, but the roadside “streeteries” will become just seasonal, as part of revised legislation expected to come before lawmakers next...
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Restaurateurs, Advocates Beg Council To Keep All-Year Outdoor Dining
Restaurant owners and open space advocates called on city politicians to keep outdoor dining in the roadway year-round and pushed back on space-hungry car owners, after Streetsblog exclusively revealed...
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