Thursday’s Headlines: Just the News Edition
Things are slowing down for summer, but not entirely. Here's the news.
By
David Meyer
12:01 AM EDT on July 3, 2025
Streetsblog Editor-in-Chief Gersh Kuntzman is away, it’s hot and humid, tomorrow’s a holiday and there’s plenty of news for you to read on Streetsblog this morning — from a horrific and confusing incident in Central Park to the latest “Vision Zero” data spin out of City Hall.
So let’s get right to the headlines:
- DMV examiners allegedly gave out licenses for cash bribes. (amNY, Daily News)
- State legislators last month passed a bill requiring two-person subway operation, a major win for labor. Will Gov. Hochul sign? (Crain’s)
- Former amNY transit scribe Ben Brachfeld talked free buses with skeptical bus riders for Curbed.
- The Times dove into the American love affair with tiny Japanese cars.
- A “multi-bus” crash temporarily closed the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Wednesday. (NBC New York, NY Post)
- The media largely covered Monday’s Central Park crash as a crime-by-cyclist, despite murky details (West Side Rag, Daily News)
- A top aide to Gov. Hochul has been suspended for sexual harassment. (NY Times)
- Two new elevators opened at the 66th Street-Lincoln Center 1 train station. (West Side Rag)
- Transportation companies drove outside spending in this year’s City Council primaries. (The City)
- The rezoning of Midtown South is almost a done deal. (The City)
- Someone is still polling Andrew Cuomo for mayor. (NY Post)
David was Streetsblog's do-it-all New York City beat reporter from 2015 to 2019. He returned as an editor in 2023 after a three-year stint at the New York Post.
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