Not even the NYPD can stop the NYPD from illegal parking. Cops in the 44th Precinct in the Highbridge section of the Bronx routinely clog up the public roadway in front of the the E. 169 Street sta
There’s a new definition of a New York Minute. Ambulance response times dropped by 63 to 70 seconds after the introduction of congestion pricing, a drop of close to 6 percent in an arena where just
The Parks Department is sticking with an “end of July” timeline to open the Red Hook pool for the season — and will update the struggling community later this week about why it has failed to maintain
For years, New Yorkers including Mayor Mamdani himself have theorized that a residential parking permit system could put a price on free curb space and relieve the crushing demand for parking in the B
It didn’t get any easier or harder to find parking after New York implemented congestion pricing tolls on trips into Manhattan below 60th Street — including in areas just outside the toll zone where s
UPDATED, TUES. JULY 7, 12:05 p.m. — A police driver allegedly struck a cyclist late Saturday night in Chinatown and then left the scene, according to video posted on X by former cop Sal Greco that has
A year after the city abruptly closed an uptown highway ramp for repairs, residents are urging officials to preserve the space as extra public space for pedestrians and cyclists. Exit 12N, which pr
Every year since I’ve been old enough to pedal a bicycle on the streets of New York, a sort of amnesia falls upon me as the heat of the summer sun rises, and I set off on my Cannondale to catch the wa
Let’s talk trash: People who criticize the effort to containerize residential trash in shared bins are full of garbage when they complain that the so-called Empire Bins will remove “parking” spaces.
Nothing reveals the law enforcement community’s obsession with muscle cars and trucks like Squad Car Porn. And no outfit is better at providing it than the American Association of State Troopers, w
Mayor Mamdani’s charter revision commission will look into ways to change a 17-year-old provision added to the city charter by anti-bike politicians to slow down the installation of life-saving street
Sharing is caring. The city will allow smaller buildings to share curbside trash containers rather than rely on wheelie bins clogging up the sidewalk, marking a small but promising policy change t
Mayor Mamdani knows you’re hot (and not just because it’s 105 out!), so he’s been urging adults to go to the closest firehouse and ask for those special sprinkler caps that used to be impossible to ge
These bridge repairs are nearly old enough to vote! The city still has no schedule to replace a small-but-crucial pedestrian and bike bridge on the Hudson River Greenway in northern Manhattan – 17
Manhattan’s Lower East Side is one of the densest, most-walkable neighborhoods in New York City. Yet the design of its streets does not support its residents’ needs. More than 80 percent of Lower East
You do the crime, you deal with slime. The Department of Sanitation will bring back those once-familiar “shame stickers” that get slapped on the cars of people who don’t move their vehicle for alte
Fair Fares is getting a little more fair. Mayor Mamdani and the City Council will expand the city’s half-priced transit fare program, but eligible riders will still need to apply for the subsidy on
Our day started, like so many days start, with a bizarre, minute-long Reddit post of a cyclist being chased by a road-raging psychotic Jersey driver: Crazy dude chasing me in the bike lane byu/Fol
Talk about a long hot summer. For the second straight year, the Parks Department has failed to open the Red Hook Pool on schedule, citing, for the second straight year, an equipment failure that wa
This story by journalist Sophia Lebowitz led the Streetsblog Editorial Board to reset the meter. Why has Mayor Mamdani not restored Bedford Avenue’s protected bike lane yet? As a candidate, and
The Penn Station mess is arriving right on time. The latest effort to renovate the transit hub is being dogged by turf wars, questions over funding and obscure secret documents, which will soun
With almost six months in City Hall under his belt, Mayor Mamdani has yet to restore the three blocks of the Bedford Avenue protected bike lane his predecessor ripped up — defying his campaign pledge
The NYPD has barred a repeatedly reckless officer from getting behind the wheel of police vehicles — and has launched an internal affairs investigation — after Streetsblog revealed the Staten Island c
Top Fire Department leaders are trying to kill a Harlem River greenway segment of protected bike lanes in the Bronx as part of an ongoing effort by agency chiefs to extinguish decades of city street s
Have you lost the thread on what the Department of Transportation is planning for Grand Army Plaza in the heart of Brooklyn? Let Stephen Landy of Third Place News — with a huge assist from Streetsblog
Mayor Mamdani’s crusade for faster buses will take another big step this summer when the Department of Transportation puts bus lanes in both directions on E. 116th Street in East Harlem, where buses t
“Thousands” of self-described victims of e-bike crashes sued Mayor Mamdani on Thursday for ending the criminal crackdown on cyclists that Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch started last year under then
The next phase of the city’s raised bike lane on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx will feature a curb that’s more difficult for drivers to abuse — a change from the initial and much-criticized “mounta
Nobody knows what to do about the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway’s triple cantilever. The decaying structure, which carries highway traffic beneath the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, has outlived its 50-year
People are always asking me, “What’s the state of local journalism?” Usually, I say, “How should I know? Go ask editors at outlets that are struggling to connect their readers with vibrant local ne
Mo Brown, mo’ street safety? Assembly Member and DoorDash-backed Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Magnarelli (D-Geddes) appears to have lost his re-election bid to Onondaga County Legislator
Mayor Mamdani wants to ban the “scam” food delivery platform Motoclick after it admitted to paying workers less than a quarter of New York City’s required delivery worker minimum wage, city officials
Elections have consequences … or so we hope! In last night’s primaries, candidates who embrace the livable streets movement pretty much trounced those who did not. The single biggest example? Da
President Trump has spent much of his second term canceling transportation grants authorized by Congress and now a group of Democratic Party senators wants legislative guardrails to stop him before l
A single unmarked car an NYPD unit linked to the agency’s history of aggressive police chases has been nabbed by city speeding cameras hundreds of times over the past three years — but the reckless dr
Fake friend alert. MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber accused Amtrak special adviser Andy Byford of disingenuously offering to partner with the federal Penn Station renovation because Byford first s
It’s an online bizarre. City law enforcement officials have made strides towards stopping the sale of illegal electric scooters and bike-style e-motos from brick-and-mortar locations, but online sa
Electric bus or electric bust? The MTA is falling behind on bus electrification as the U.S. bus industry collapses under pressure from inflation, supply chain challenges and technological shortcomi
Last week, we ran a blockbuster story about how lawmakers at all levels of government are trying to undermine New York City’s citizen enforcement program against idling trucks — a decade-old program t
Bar the cars to fill the bars. Lower Manhattan’s congested Financial District has a lot of foot traffic, but a lot of storefront vacancies — and area businesses hope limiting or banning private veh
More than 40,000 people were killed on American roads in 2023 alone — a toll equivalent to a regional passenger-filled airplane crashing nearly every day for a year. Since the automobile was invented,
Is it really bliss? One year ago, Streetsblog said the bike lanes in Blissville, in the southwesternmost corner of Queens, earned our “chef’s kiss,” but now we’re not so sure. A decade-long figh
Another blocked bike lane, another hit-and-run, another dead cyclist. A driver struck and killed a 32-year-old cyclist before fleeing the scene at around 9:45 p.m. on Friday in the Hamilton Heights
Lower Manhattan was a joyful place yesterday, thanks to the New York Knicks — but also thanks to the Mamdani administration’s decision to properly honor the team’s championship by making the area sout
On May 19, I walked down to Pier 42, a former industrial pier on the Lower East Side that the city transformed into an eight-acre waterfront park. New York was entering a heat wave, and I wanted to me
We were cheering “Tow New York, tow New York, tow!” as Lower Manhattan was supposed to go car-free for the Knicks ticker-tape parade late on Wednesday night. Lower Manhattan was poised to be a chao
Tow, NY, tow NY, tow! The Knicks championship was always a dream, but city officials appear to be prolonging their REM sleep to keep the fantasy going: According to the NYPD, starting at 7 p.m. on
Idle (enforce) no more. New Yorkers would no longer be able to collect a portion of the fine paid by violators of the city’s half-century-old anti-idling law under legislation proposed by U.S. Reps
It’s basic math. Mayor Mamdani campaigned on a pledge to implement “universal” car-free “school streets” outside every school in the city — and now advocates are calling out his proposed budget for
We’ll have all day on Thursday to use our greatest public space — Broadway — to celebrate the New York Knickerbockers, but in between the buzzer that sounded the end of Game 5 and Thursday’s Key to th