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Open Streets Coalition to Mayor: Give Us a Real Program (And Some Help)!
What’s the plan? Dozens of volunteer groups that have been maintaining the city’s open streets program are demanding support from the city to ensure that the public space initiative — which has given...
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CROCK ON THE ROCK: Beryl Bails On Staten Island Bike Share, Citing COVID
Like they did in the late 18th century, the British have fled New York City in disgrace without accomplishing any of their stated goals. On Wednesday afternoon, Beryl, the small UK-based company...
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REPORT: City Spent More to Settle Crash Suits Last Year
Injuries caused by city employees behind the wheel of their taxpayer-funded government cars cost the city close to $150 million in settlements last year — 33 percent more than they did just one year...
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ANALYSIS: Mayor de Blasio Has Abandoned the Open Streets ‘Program’
Open streets or open warfare? The mayor’s signature effort to bring car-free outdoor space to COVID-stricken neighborhoods last year is increasingly looking like it will collapse unless city officials...
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THE STREETSBLOG INTERVIEW: Vax Daddy Huge Ma is the City’s Newest Bike Lane...
New York City’s Vax Daddy has picked up a new moniker — meet your Bike Lane Daddy. The 31-year-old software engineer behind the transformational website that compiled hard-to-find vaccine appointments...
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TODAY: Council to Pass Law Mandating Fuller, Bolder Open Streets Program
The City Council will close the gap of leadership exhibited by the de Blasio administration in making permanent the open streets program — mandating many open streets, allowing for their conversion...
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Gov. Cuomo Restores 24-7 Service on Filthy, Crime-Ridden Subway that He Runs...
New York’s 24-hour subway is back, but Andrew Cuomo says to ride it if you dare. At a press conference on Monday at which Gov. Cuomo announced that full overnight subway service would return on May 17,...
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DONOVAN RICHARDS: A Linear Park on 34th Avenue Can Lead the Reimagining of...
This is the latest in our ongoing series of opinion pieces in favor of converting the 34th Avenue open street into a linear park, which is the subject of a new petition drive that seeks a logical...
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OPINION: 34th Avenue is An Opportunity to Undo Decades of Unjust, Racist...
This is the latest in our ongoing series of opinion pieces in favor of converting the 34th Avenue open street into a linear park, which is the subject of a new petition drive that seeks a logical...
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UNCIVIL WAR! Parking-Obsessed Opponents of Health, Safety and Parks Berate...
When historians of the future set out to chronicle the decline of American democracy, they should consider delving into how a simple city initiative to give more green space to residents of a...
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‘Nightmare’ on 34th Avenue? Residents Rally Against the ‘Gold Standard’ Open...
Roughly 100 people on Saturday safely marched down the 34th Avenue open street in Jackson Heights, demanding a so-called “compromise” that seeks to reduce the hours and days of the very open street...
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OPINION: A 34th Avenue Linear Park Would Be a Haven for Kids
This is the sixth installment in our ongoing series of opinion pieces in favor of converting 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights and Corona into a linear park, which is the subject of a new petition drive...
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Friday’s Headlines: The Office Edition
There was so little news going on yesterday that our old man editor bought us all lunch to celebrate our return to our office at 377 Broadway for the first time since early March. We’re happy to have...
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Tuesday’s Headlines: Set Your Calendar Edition
The Daily News loves a parade. It was a very slow news day on the streets beat, but one thing stands out: The city will throw a ticker-tape parade for COVID first responders on July 7, a symbol of New...
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DOT Finally Presents its ‘Bike Boulevard’ Vision for 39th Ave. in Sunnyside
How Streetsblog covered the story. The key to the Department of Transportation’s “bike boulevard” design — for 39th Avenue in Queens and, perhaps, for others — is a significant disruption of how...
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CARNAGE CONTINUES: Bloody Year on NYC Streets on Pace for Worst Ever Under...
The summer fireworks aren’t only in the air. At least 120 people have been killed so far this year on New York City roads — 61 of them pedestrians — a total death toll that is close to 50 percent...
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De Blasio to 34th Avenue Open Streets Opponents: Stop Parking in Children’s...
Kids, not cars! Mayor de Blasio ordered the immediate towing of a dozen or so cars left illegally in Fresh Air Fund play zones on the 34th Avenue open street because the behavior of drivers is selfish,...
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First Salvos Fired as de Blasio’s ‘Permanent’ Dining Sheds Begin the...
The community boards are poised to take a bite out of Mayor de Blasio’s COVID streeteries. The city’s outdoor dining program, which the mayor says is permanent, kicked off months of community board...
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De Blasio to MTA: 16-Month Congestion Pricing Environmental Review Is...
Expedite this! Mayor de Blasio took aim at the supposed 16-month timeline for the MTA’s environmental assessment of congestion pricing, repeatedly saying that it was “ridiculous” to suggest that was a...
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Eyes on the Street: The East Side Crosstown Bike Lanes Re-Emerge
Our heroes are getting their crosstown bike lanes — finally. Many months after they first appeared as temporary lanes during the height of COVID — and years after the community began requesting them —...
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