Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about DOT

Monday’s Headlines: How Do You Sleep Edition

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 18, 2021 | No Comments

The death of Jose Ramos in East New York sends our editor back to his old Russian dictionary to get the perfect idiom to express our outrage about the city's failure. Plus other news.

Canal Street. File photo: Joseph Tedeschi

Report: 85,000 More Damn Cars will Enter Manhattan’s Core Daily in 2023

By Dave Colon | Oct 18, 2021 | No Comments

This is the dawning of the age of Carpocalypse.

Police employee-owned vehicles fill the bike lane on Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

BAD COP, BAD COP: NYPD Threatens Tipster for Filing 311 Complaints About Illegal Parking

By Julianne Cuba | Oct 18, 2021 | No Comments

Members of the NYPD harassed a cyclist after he reported the cops for illegally parking, according to the complainant — and now the matter is under investigation by the Civilian Complaint Review Board.

Jose Ramos (inset) was killed on a strip of roadway that the DOT beautified, but did not make safer. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

SAFETY THIRD: Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Deaf Man on Notorious Speedway that DOT Failed to Fix

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 16, 2021 | No Comments

A Brooklyn man was killed by a hit-and-run driver on a notoriously dangerous stretch of Atlantic Avenue in East New York on Friday night — a fatal crash that presents real-time evidence of the incompetence and apathy of city officials in keeping its most vulnerable residents safe.

Bridges 4 People volunteers paraded across the Brooklyn Bridge in September in celebration of the new bike path. Photo: Rose Uscianowski

OPINION: Brooklyn Bridge Bike Lane Is Only the Beginning of ‘Bridges 4 People’

By Liz Denys, Diane Martins and Katherine Willis | Oct 15, 2021 | No Comments

The city needs even more safety infrastructure for cyclists, say leaders of the successful campaign.

A memorial for baby Apolline at the corner of Vanderbilt and Gates avenues. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Reckless Driver Pleads Not Guilty for Wrong-Way Crash that Killed Baby Apolline

By Julianne Cuba | Oct 14, 2021 | No Comments

The recidivist reckless driver now facing assault and manslaughter charges for killing a 3-month-old baby at a Brooklyn intersection last month pleaded not guilty on Thursday — even though he confessed and apologized for the crime when cops finally collared him after a frenzied and violent attempt to flee, prosecutors said.

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