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OPINION: Canal Street — Not The Vendors — Is the Problem
If Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor — and is true to his vision for a fair, livable city — he will have to take on this long-ignored corridor. Here's how.
October 24, 2025
Friday’s Headlines: Today’s the Day Edition
Mayor Adams's new 15 mph speed limit is officially goes into effect today. Plus more news.
October 24, 2025
Cough, Cough: DEP Considers Largest Ever Exemption Request to City’s Anti-Idling Law
Academy Bus claims no technological alternatives exist for heating and cooling buses without idling. Advocates warn an exemption would "gut" the city's 50-year-old idling ban.
October 23, 2025
Truckers to US DOT: Busways Are Good for Us!
The federal government has obviously lost its trucking mind.
October 23, 2025
Vision Zero Cities: Fund Transit — Or Lose It
Got a transit vision? Check out how several cities struggled and then rebounded.
Nicholas Dagen Bloom
October 23, 2025
Thursday’s Headlines: Protect The Election Edition
How to be a bike monitor at election sites. Plus other news.
October 23, 2025
HEAVY TRAFFIC: Driving Continues to Rise, Undermining Literally Every Effort to Make the City Better
The trend of increased vehicle miles traveled undermines safety initiatives, pollution reduction efforts and the traffic mitigation of congestion pricing, a new report makes clear.
October 22, 2025
Redesign for Brooklyn’s Fifth Ave. Shopping Strip Puts Customers First
"The core takeaway from the small business community on this strip is that they want a pedestrian- and transit-priority street," said the architect.
October 22, 2025
Chinatown Plaza Redesign A Good First Step, But City Must Go Bigger
Almost everyone walks through Kimlau Square – even though most of the space is for cars.
October 22, 2025
The ‘Problem’ With E-Bikes? The Super Fast Illegal Ones
New Yorkers are riding illegal vehicles marketed as e-bikes with little to no-consequences, and it's a safety problem.
October 21, 2025
