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Opinion: To Avoid a COVID Resurgence, Mayor de Blasio Must Create Open Streets for Schools
Taking our schools outdoors should not be a revolutionary idea, after our year-long dining experiment. Yet the city has been sluggish at best about moving schools into outdoor space, let alone streets.
September 9, 2021
DOT Will Pull the Trigger on Navy Street Protected Bike Lane
The Department of Transportation quietly announced on Tuesday that it was moving ahead with a protected bike lane on Navy Street, filling in a missing link connecting the Brooklyn waterfront to DUMBO and the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges.
September 7, 2021
Please Stay On The Grass: More Absorbent Streets Could Mean Less Catastrophically Flooded Subways
Here’s what the city has to do now. Ripping up some asphalt is a start.
September 3, 2021
REST IN PEACE, SARAH: Dangerous Williamsburg Intersection Gets Overdue Fix
It's a safety fix that one victim's family says should have come sooner.
September 2, 2021
Self-Driving Car Industry, Promising Safety, Pushes Back on DOT Plan to Regulate Testing
The proposed rules would make NYC "inhospitable" to life-saving autonomous vehicle technology, reps for tech giants said at a hearing on Wednesday.
September 1, 2021
De Blasio’s Deadliest Year: A Senior is Killed By Driver in Bensonhurst
A Bensonhurst woman is dead after she was run over by the driver of a pickup truck on Friday morning — just days after a six-year-old girl was killed while crossing the street with her mom not far from the scene of Friday's fatal crash.
August 27, 2021
Pedestrians Will Get More Space on Cramped Lexington Avenue … In 2024
The city's ongoing systemic discrimination against pedestrians is slowly being remedied. Up next: A key Midtown corridor where walkers outnumber drivers more than four to one.
August 27, 2021
Watered Down Fifth Avenue ‘Busway’ Inches Forward
Community Board 5 supports "busway lite."
August 24, 2021
End Parking Minimums Now! Analysis: Zoning Rule is Choking the City With Cars
The mandatory parking minimum law is the demon child of car culture and NIMBYism — but it is finally being attacked by progressive leaders. Where will Mayor Adams stand? He isn't saying.
August 18, 2021
MTA Drops Bike-Permit Requirement for Suburban Railroads
It's the first step in a long battle to make the traditionally anti-cycling agency more bike friendly.
August 12, 2021
