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Billionaire Mets Owner Gets His Casino Land — Will Flushing Get Its ‘Skypark’?
The state Senate is OK with the Citi Field parking lot becoming a casino, but Mets owner Steve Cohen is now on the hook to build a park to replace it.
May 28, 2025
Hochul Vetoes Bill To Expand Eastern Queens Greenway
The bill passed the legislature unanimously, but the governor vetoed it, saying that it mandated a study that was not funded in the budget. Whatevs.
November 20, 2023
ALBANY NOTEBOOK: Mayor Treks Upstate, But Speed Cameras are Still at Risk of Expiring
Mayor Adams made another trip up to Albany on Tuesday, but barely, if at all, pushed legislators to support a bill that would renew and expand speed cameras — a self-proclaimed priority of his own administration.
May 18, 2022
Mayor Voices ‘Concern’ Over Insurance Rules that Hurt City Residents Injured by Uber, Lyft
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday expressed "concern" about a disparity in insurance requirements for Uber and Lyft taxis that shortchanges the city's crash victims, promising to review the issue further. His comments followed a Streetsblog investigation into the issue.
September 2, 2021
State Senators Admit They Don’t Understand The MTA’s Enormous Deficit
Legislators, including State Senator John Liu, displayed a stunning lack of insight into where the MTA's money comes from and the long-term financial state of the hobbled transit agency.
August 26, 2020
Bloodied State Senator: I Will Not Stop Biking … But It Needs to be Safer
State Senator John Liu is bloodied — but unbowed.
December 31, 2019
City to State: ‘Distracted Pedestrians’ is Not a Thing
In fact, the opposite it true: only 0.2 percent of pedestrian fatality reports blamed "electronic distraction," according to a new city report that was quietly issued late on Friday.
September 2, 2019
Whew! Sen. John Liu’s Bill to Criminalize Walking Is Likely DOA
An upstate lawmaker appears ready to stop a bill that no real New Yorker would ever have introduced — Queens Senator John Liu's absurd bill to empower the NYPD to write tickets to "distracted" pedestrians.
May 20, 2019
Liu’s Office Outlines Benefits of Investigating All Serious NYC Traffic Crashes
John Liu's office recently published a brief analysis of the newly-expanded NYPD Collision Investigation Squad. Liu has already proposed increasing the number of NYPD crash investigators, and now Doug Giuliano, senior policy analyst for the comptroller's office, has put up some more numbers that illustrate how woefully inadequate CIS staffing is.
July 11, 2013
At Forum, Mayoral Candidates Back Bus Lanes, Shy Away From Funding
At a mayoral forum on transportation this morning, the first since a February event hosted by Transport Workers Union Local 100, eight candidates offered ideas on how they would improve the city's road and transit network. For the most part, the candidates were eager to support buses, quick to get agitated about bike lanes, and short on realistic ideas for how to fund their plans.
June 19, 2013