MUST-WATCH: ‘Delivery Guys are Not Trash’ — They’re Heroes
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If you watch nothing else today, please watch this four-minute video by producers Jon Hsu and Law Chen featuring New York's hard-working delivery cyclists.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Equity
Mayor Has No Citi Bike Expansion Plan Despite Tweet Offering Citi Bike Expansion
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It turns out that a promise on Twitter is an empty promise.
Two Queens Op-Eds: Keep MTA Buses Fare-Free After the Pandemic…
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For one candidate, an emergency measure for social distancing presents an opportunity for improving air quality and social equity.
Meet the Democratic Insurgents Who Want Transit to be Free
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And all are running against incumbents for the state Assembly or Congress this year.
STREETSBLOG GETS ACTION: Council Will Probe NYPD’s Biased ‘Jaywalking’ Enforcement
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The City Council will investigate whether the NYPD is conducting racially biased harassment of blacks and Latinos, who received 90 percent of all "jaywalking" tickets issued by cops last year.
‘Jaywalking While Black’: Final 2019 Numbers Show Race-Based NYPD Crackdown Continues
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The NYPD said it simply writes tickets when cops see something dangerous (unless it's done by white people, apparently).