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Fixing Canal Street Means Rethinking the Manhattan Bridge Itself: Experts
Canal Street needs a fix, but the city must go straight to the source.
July 24, 2025
Lower East Side Panel Joins Growing Chorus Against Tisch’s E-Bike Criminalization
Another New York neighborhood is calling for an end to the “disproportionate consequences” that e-bike users face under the NYPD’s sweeping crackdown.
July 24, 2025
Eyes on the Street: UPS Blows Off DOT’s ‘Microhubs’ Delivery Pilot
"Microhub" parking zones reserved for e-commerce firms to offload parcels from trucks to cargo bikes and hand-carts routinely go unused.
July 23, 2025
E-Bike Battery Swap Hub Backed by Con Edison Opens At Ebbets Field Apartments
Hundreds of delivery workers who live at the Crown Heights apartment complex now have access to fully charged e-bike batteries right outside their building.
July 22, 2025
DOT’s Uptown Greenway Connector is ‘Ridiculous’ — And Forces Cyclists to Cross a Highway Ramp!
The Department of Transportation’s proposed path forces cyclists to cross a highway and traverse stairs just to access the Hudson River Greenway.
July 22, 2025
#StuckAtDOT: Canal Street Carnage Continues As Fixes Flounder
How many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died?
July 21, 2025
Cyclist Badly Hurt on Segment of McGuinness Blvd. That Mayor Adams Refused to Make Safe
As predicted, a cyclist was badly hurt along a portion of McGuinness Boulevard that was supposed to be made safer for biking — until the Adams administration watered down a plan to do just that.
July 20, 2025
Eyes on the Street: Meeker Avenue Bike Lane Is a Failure
The Department of Transportation still hasn't finished a critical bike lane under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that the agency has been stalling for over four years even after identifying the strip's danger and lack of proper signals.
July 18, 2025
Fixing Third Ave. Was Once ‘Top of List’ For Eric Adams — But as Mayor He Backed Off
Mayor Adams has delayed a redesign of Brooklyn's Third Avenue despite once saying safety fixes there should be "at the top of our list."
July 17, 2025
Uncle Sam Wants to Fence Off a Lower Manhattan Plaza
A federally-funded police gate will lockdown a pedestrian plaza huddled between two federal courthouses in Manhattan.
July 16, 2025
