EYES ON THE STREET: Hochul’s Plan for LaGuardia-Bound Buses Will Need Lots of Help
Gov. Hochul's proposed bus to LaGuardia Airport has the chance to work — if planners get cars out of the way.
March 15, 2023
EXCLU: Many MTA Board Members Barely Use Their Free MetroCards
Whatever happened to first-hand knowledge?
March 14, 2023
March (Parking) Madness: Another First Round Battle in the Bronx
The Bronx brawl moves to a pair of north-eastern precincts where cops deposit their personal vehicles in green spaces and footpaths outside their station houses, and drive with reckless abandon around the Boogie Down and beyond.
March 13, 2023
State Pols Call on DOTs to Counter E-Bike ‘Demonization’
Inaction by the two agencies could give state lawmakers or local municipalities a political opening to ban e-bike and e-scooter use completely on safety grounds, the group of state senators warned.
March 10, 2023
March (Parking) Madness: The Battle for the Boogie Down Starts in the East Bronx
These two precincts each have their fair share of parking and driving abuse their officers have wrought on their neighbors in two blue-collar sections of the East Bronx.
March 9, 2023
HE WALKS: Postal Service Driver Dodges Jail Time Despite Killing Cyclist
Jeffrey Williamson's family was distraught at the jurist's decision.
March 7, 2023
City Hall: We Hear that People Want to Keep Three-Lane BQE (Really?!)
Some elected officials and locals are telling City Hall that they want to keep three travel lanes in each direction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, a top city official said on Thursday — despite nearly two dozen area politicians who have called for no more than two lanes.
March 3, 2023
Workers, City Coffers Will Lose Out if Council Ditches Year-Round Street Dining, Experts Say
Yet the Council has not analyzed the economic harm that its bill could cause to one of New York's signature industries.
March 1, 2023
Restaurateurs, Advocates Beg Council To Keep All-Year Outdoor Dining
"If we have to take it down in the winter there’s no putting that stuff back up," said Donna Drakes, owner of the Caribbean restaurant Brooklyn Beso in Bedford-Stuyvesant. "I think that’s just a way for them to get rid of it."
February 28, 2023
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 month, Council sources told Streetsblog.
February 27, 2023
