It’s a personnel failure. The city’s main independent overseer of the NYPD is operating with less than one-third of its workforce — and might even have more interns than staffers right now — the la
A Brooklyn man who sold fake temporary license plates that allowed reckless drivers to avoid accountability for speeding and other infractions has avoided jail time or a fine in a plea deal with state
Mayor Mamdani must reduce truck traffic and enforce rules banning big rig haulers on most streets as his administration moves forward with a plan to add new truck routes, according to a fellow Democra
The Department of Transportation has found the trick to getting cyclists to obey traffic signals — timing those signals to the actual speed of cyclists. By timing the signals on Third Avenue in Man
An MTA superintendent crafted homemade placards to regularly park his two out-of-state cars all over the city — until he was caught, demoted and effectively drummed out of the agency, the MTA’s watchd
Speeders beware. Gov. Hochul’s version of the long-stalled “Stop Super Speeders” bill will be included in the final budget, allowing New York City to require repeat reckless drivers to install devices
Chambers of horrors, no more. The MTA is preparing to finally refurbish the Chambers Street J/Z subway station, possibly the most-notorious example of the decades of disinvestment in the city’s tra
Green-Wood? Green-Way! The folks behind Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery want the city to install a two-way bike path along a “no man’s land” strip of tractor-trailer parking and illegal dumping on t
It’s worse than we even knew. As you might recall, Streetsblog has been consistently exposing super speeders who endanger our children by driving recklessly through school zones. The goal, of cours
The Mamdani administration will transform two crucial east-west roadways in Brooklyn to bike boulevards, the administration announced on Wednesday. Bergen and Dean streets, which run parallel and p
Legislative leaders have reached a broad agreement on car insurance reforms that strip some crash victims of their legal rights to compensation after crashes while only asking insurance companies to m
Half-priced fares, full service results. Expanding the Fair Fares program, the city’s 50-percent-off transit subsidy for low-income residents, to cover another three-quarters-of-a-million people wo
How about a plan to put the “park” back in the plan to put the “park” back in Park Avenue? The city Department of Transportation has largely earned praise for two design concepts that it put forwar
Nassau County legislators want to explicitly legalize e-bikes after the police department under Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman used old, confusing rules for ATVs to impound them. The legis
How bad is the bikelash right now? Perhaps this story will illuminate the current place of cyclists in this city’s transportation ecosystem. I was biking northbound on Jay Street on Tuesday morning
MADRID — Take that, Adams administration apologists! Mayor Carlos Fernando Galán of Bogotá, Colombia. Haters lost their minds earlier this year when Mayor Mamdani’s new Department of Transporta
Mayor Mamdani must fulfill his campaign promise to redesign dangerous Third Avenue in Sunset Park, one of many street safety projects that former Mayor Eric Adams stalled at the behest of special inte
A supermajority of City Council members, including Speaker Julie Menin, implored New York’s two most powerful state legislators to include Gov. Hochul’s “Stop Super Speeder” proposal in the state budg
Here’s one theory why politicians are so unconcerned about super speeders: They know a hell of a lot of them! Thanks to all sorts of “driver protection” laws passed by politicians at all levels of
Bike parking? Lots. The Mamdani administration is taking the next step to bring secure bike parking to the Big Apple, with a new website inviting New Yorkers to weigh in on where they want the city
NYPD officers gave out thousands of criminal summonses to cyclists and e-bike riders this year, until Mayor Mamdani finally fulfilled his campaign promise to call off the Adams-era crackdown nearly th
Fourth time’s the charm? The Department of Transportation once again says it will change city rules to allow cyclists to legally make right turns on red lights and also pass through stop lights at
It’s going to be a busy week for the livable streets movement, so set your calendars: Tonight at 7 p.m., Manhattan Community Board 6 will discuss — virtually — the city Department of Transportatio
A hit-and-run school bus driver struck and killed a 9-year-old boy in the Hasidic section of South Williamsburg on Friday morning, police said. The 49-year-old driver was turning left from southbou
They can go their own way. The MTA is exploring alternatives to federal funding for the $5.5 billion proposed Interborough Express light rail line between Brooklyn and Queens to circumvent Presiden
Last Saturday, it took my kids and me two hours to ride eight miles roundtrip to see my grandma at the end of the Bx7 bus line. On the way home, in the back of a crowded bus stuck at 225th Street
The lasting effects of Robert Moses’s Brooklyn–Queens Expressway can best be understood by going back in time to what the thriving outer-borough neighborhoods looked like before the infamous power bro
The New York Times got in on the Stop Super Speeders action on Thursday, giving much-needed attention to the campaign to get speed-limiter technology installed on vehicles with 16 or more speed camera
New York City should expand its limited e-scooter share program to better connect more neighborhoods to public transit, according to a new report commissioned by e-scooter provider Lime that shows New
We were happy to see that the increasingly nationally focused New York Times devoted a great deal of space to paper’s namesake city with two very interesting stories yesterday. First, the Paper of
How do you solve a problem like James Giovansanti? Cops, former cops, officials at the highest levels of NYPD brass, and the mayor himself, are trying to figure out what should happen to the Staten
Amtrak’s Andy Byford is standing by his refusal to release a key document guiding the federal railroad’s selection of a “master developer” for President Trump’s Penn Station project — drawing the ire
Was this a ground-breaking or a reputation-breaking? The big news on Tuesday was the formal beginning of construction on the Department of Transportation’s transformative bus rapid transit (lite!)
State governments are stepping up efforts to attract new riders to intercity bus services, using catchy names, rolling out new apps and websites, and touting the ride’s enjoyment — all to shake the pe
Is this consumer protection — or a protection racket? Gov. Hochul claims that the state’s “excess profits” law will prevent auto insurance companies from pocketing the savings from her Uber-backed
“I want to be the mayor of hyperproximity,” said newly elected Paris Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire, differentiating himself from the mainstream urban planning mindset of hypermobility. He’s also providing a
You know that feeling when you’re biking along all safe and sound in a protected bike lane — and then suddenly, the protection ends, usually at the most-dangerous clusterfuck of an intersection? We
The “Bus Mayor” finally has his bus czar. Elizabeth Adams — bus czar. The Mamdani administration has tapped a former top executive at Transportation Alternatives to spearhead the mayor’s effort
Residents of The Rock are fed up with public enemy #1. NYPD Officer James Giovansanti’s pickup truck has been caught on camera 547 times in Staten Island since 2022 — including 187 camera-issue
Gov. Hochul says her auto insurance proposals wouldn’t have shut me out of court. I was able to bring my case because of New York’s serious injury standard, specifically the 90/180 worker protection,
Pressure is growing on Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to abandon his objection to the “Stop Super Speeders” bill, which he blocked last year and is continuing to block even after Gov. Hochul said she w
Three pre-teens — two on foot, one on a kick scooter — were injured in separate crashes within a four-hour period in South Williamsburg on Friday at the approach of the Jewish sabbath, a frenetic peri
Red card! The Department of Transportation’s plans to host outdoor World Cup watch parties on existing open streets was scrubbed due to concerns by the NYPD, Streetsblog has learned. The move came
Reset. See the bottom note at this story. Mayor Mamdani condemned Staten Island NYPD officer James Giovansanti’s 547 speed- and red-light camera tickets as “unacceptable” on Friday, but stopped sho
Slow the man down! Advocates stepped up their demand for state-level action to rein in the worst recidivist speeders while the city’s political elite completely ignored the stupefying news that an
Sometimes, the YouTube algorithm gods give us so many great videos on the Streetsblog beat in a single week that we can’t pick just one. So this week, we’re encouraging you to have yourself a mini urb
Safer street design is the best way to mitigate rising-but-still-rare injuries stemming from the increase in biking and electric micromobility use, according to a new analysis of emergency room data t
City Council Speaker Julie Menin wants you to know she’s serious about bringing back year-round outdoor dining. “I’m deeply committed to fixing the broken dining program that was passed by the last
Is this public enemy #1? James Giovansanti lives and works on Staten Island. Since 2022, traffic cameras have caught his pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 5
NY1 statehouse reporter Bernadette Hogan sent shockwaves through the Empire State — and both of Streetsblog’s insurance-obsessed newsrooms — with a late afternoon tweet that suggested, dare we say it,