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DOT Unveils New Bus Lane on Battery Place, Improving the Staten Island Bus Commute
The Department of Transportation has fixed one of the notorious snarls for the Staten Island-bound bus commuter. We hope Tom Wrobleski is watching!
June 10, 2021
Bushwick Candidate: Here’s My Plan for Reducing Car Use in NYC
Scott Murphy takes a second stab at the livable streets vote.
June 10, 2021
Upper West Side Panel Sees E-Bikes as the Threat — But de Blasio Disagrees
Members of an Upper West Side community board again put the safety of delivery cyclists secondary in passing a resolution on Tuesday night demanding that they be banned from protected bike lanes — a notion that was quickly sent into the dustbin of history by Mayor de Blasio.
June 9, 2021
Council Candidate: Hells Kitchen Needs Another 7 Train Station
Erik Bottcher calls for the revival of the unbuilt station at 41st Street and Tenth Avenue.
June 8, 2021
Park Slope BID Asks NYPD For ‘Help’ with Delivery Cyclists Then Quickly Regrets It
A business improvement district that had asked the NYPD to get delivery cyclists to slow down on a popular restaurant open street now says it will not invite the cops back after they spent much of Saturday ticketing the mostly immigrant and low-income workers trying to do their job.
June 7, 2021
ANALYSIS: City’s Most Car-Centric Neighborhoods are Supporting Eric Adams
In the 50 ZIP codes with the highest car ownership, Adams has received more campaign contributions than any other Democratic candidate, according to a Streetsblog analysis of campaign finance data and census estimates.
June 7, 2021
DOT Has Not Revealed a Plan to Calm Deadly McGuinness Blvd. — And the Neighborhood is Impatient
Locals are frustrated that the only thing moving since the death of Matthew Jensen on May 18 are the hands of the clock that is counting off the last hours of de Blasio's tenure.
June 4, 2021
UPDATE: West Side Pedestrian Struck and Killed by Driver, Who is Uncharged
A driver struck and killed a 44-year-old man in a notoriously dangerous section of Hells Kitchen early Tuesday morning, but was not initially charged, police said.
June 1, 2021
UPDATE: Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Brooklyn Senior on Speedway Atlantic Avenue
A Brooklyn man was struck and left for dead by a driver late on Monday night a few feet from his home on Atlantic Avenue, a wide roadway that becomes a speedway in the wee hours.
June 1, 2021
Queens Senior Killed After Being Hit By Driver of a 4,700-Pound SUV
A Bayside senior who was struck by a car driver near her home earlier this week has died — and the driver who killed her remains uncharged.
May 28, 2021
