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UPDATE: Pedestrian Killed in Midtown
A pedestrian was struck and killed by a truck driver at a busy Midtown intersection on Thursday morning — and the NYPD said in its preliminary report that the dead man "walked in front" of a moving tractor trailer.
October 6, 2022
The Day I Was Hit By a Driver Changed My Life, And My City, Forever
October 5, 2022
Monday’s Headlines: What’s the Fix for Subway Murders? Edition
The punitive approach isn't going to work. Plus other news.
October 3, 2022
Business Grew After Controversial Bike Lane Installed, Data Show
September 30, 2022
Department of Education Kicks Streetsblog out of Media Event Instead of Answering Question on School Street Safety
The agency's months of silence on the dangers children face walking to and from school continued on Thursday, with the department actually kicking a Streetsblog reporter out of a media event after the reporter tried to ask the schools chancellor a question — a move that one parent said was "deplorable."
September 29, 2022
Thursday’s Headlines: The MTA Blows Its Congestion Pricing Analysis Edition
The authority finds ever-more-creative ways to blow holes in a good thing. Plus other news.
September 29, 2022
OPINION: To Defeat the New Electric Dodge Muscle Cars, Amp Up Sound Cameras
The Charger Daytona SRT Banshee is being pitched as a big, fat thumb in the eye of "authority." Well, authority needs to stick a thumb back.
September 28, 2022
Sanitation Dept’s ‘Clean Curbs’ Program Spreads to Staten Island
Brooklyn's Pitkin Avenue BID also gets a trash corral as the containerization effort moves into more locations.
September 27, 2022
New Report Shows Mayor Does Not ‘Get Stuff Done’ for Bus Riders, Cyclists
Maybe the mayor's motto should be "Get SOME stuff done," though DOT has disputed the findings.
September 26, 2022
Upper East Side Community Board Votes for Crosstown Bike Lanes
Carling Mott did not die in vain.
September 22, 2022
