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Monday’s Headlines: O Crashland, Where Art Thou? Edition
The city included the unbuilt block of the Ashland Place protected bike lane in a recent release — then took it down. Plus more news.
June 9, 2025
Friday’s Headlines: East Flatbush Car Death Tragedy Edition
As the NYPD cracks down on cyclists, drivers are still killing seniors. Plus other news (including our big award win!).
May 16, 2025
Can New York City Fix Its Deadly ‘Conduit’ to JFK Airport?
The extra-wide medians on Conduit could fit 46 football fields, which combined with extra-wide travel lanes makes the strip prone to speeding and crashes.
May 13, 2025
Anatomy of a Debacle: Business Owners Use False Fears, Mayor Adams Stalls Third Av. Safety Plan
It takes just a handful of opponents to derail street safety in Adams's New York.
April 16, 2025
Vision? Zero: Tragedy Underscores Shortcomings of Efforts to Make Ocean Parkway Safer
Road violence on Ocean Parkway is at its highest levels of the Vision Zero era — and despite millions of dollars of state safety improvements.
April 4, 2025
ESSAY: A Brush With Danger Made Me Exhibit A in My Fight for Better Bike Lanes in Brooklyn
I was cycling home on Henry Street in Brooklyn on Dec. 20 when I became Exhibit A in my campaign for protected bike lanes in Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens.
January 9, 2025
Mythbusting: Don’t Assume Orthodox Jews Only Drive — We Want Bike Lanes, Too
City planners too often choose not to put bike lanes in certain places based on the myth that Orthodox Jews don't use them.
October 30, 2024
Slaughter of the Innocents: Another Teen Cyclist Killed by Truck Driver on Dangerous Brooklyn Street
The 15th cyclist, and the 12 child, has been killed, this time along a notorious roadway that the city has failed to tame.
August 20, 2024
Brooklyn’s Fourth Ave. ‘Great Street’ Delayed … Again
Phase I of construction on Fourth Avenue's Great Street Capital Project, originally set to end in June 2024, has now been pushed back at least another year plus.
August 16, 2024
‘Driggs Passage’ Shows Possible Car-Free Future for Brooklyn’s McCarren Park
The street could join parcels of McCarren Park bifurcated by cars.
August 3, 2024
