Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

Health Department: The Number of New Yorkers Who Bike Is on the Rise (AMNY) The Driver Who Killed 13-Year-Old Jazmine Marin Gets a Pass From NYPD (News, Post) Surely This State DOT Highway Expansion Will Fix Staten Island’s Traffic Problems (DNA) Passenger Exiting SUV Doors Northbound Cyclist on Jay Street By MetroTech (Bklyn Paper) Woodhaven SBS NIMBYs Also Detest Expansion […]

Second Ave Subway Phase 1 Nears Finish Line (NYT); Crews Had to Shave Down Tunnel Walls (News) Driver Kills 13-Year-Old Girl, Injures Another Girl Near Middle School in Ozone Park (Post, DNA) MTA Express Bus Driver Kills Woman in Lower Manhattan, Charged With Failure to Yield (News, NY1) Drunken Staten Island Drag Race Claims One Life, Injures Several […]

Second Witness Implicates Cuomo in Bridgegate Testimony (Politico, WSJ) DiNapoli Says the MTA Has More Cash on Hand Than Expected for 2019 (Crain’s) Families for Safe Streets Launches Safe Driver Pledge Site in Memory of Allison Liao (Gothamist) Voice: Women Need Safe Streets to Ride Bikes, Not Marketing Campaigns NYC Paid Willets Point Garages to Build a Bronx “Auto Mall.” It […]

Revised DOT Plan for 111th Street Keeps a Car Lane and Drops Crosswalks (DNA) Doored Cyclist Run Over by MTA Bus Driver in Williamsburg, in Critical Condition (DNA, News) StreetsPAC Petition Calls on NYPD to Update the Public on Matthew von Ohlen Investigation Nassau County Exec Ed Mangano Expected to Be Charged in Corruption Probe (WSJ, Post) Christie Will […]

De Blasio’s East Harlem Housing Plan Would Eliminate Parking Minimums, Integrate Transit (Politico) Trottenberg Will Ride New Sixth Avenue Bikeway Today to Mark Women’s Bike Month (AMNY) CB 6 Mad Because DOT Won’t Send Staff to Get Pummeled by Bike-Hating Cranks (Bklyn Paper) Cyclist Run Over by Trucker at Jay and Tillary Survived, and His Family Needs Help Gothamist Looks […]

NYPD Still Fails to Apprehend Most Hit-and-Run Killers (News) Slow Pace of Street Redesigns on Staten Island Isn’t Making a Dent in Traffic Deaths (Advance) Six of the 10 Deadliest Staten Island Intersections Are on Hylan Boulevard (Advance) Ken Thompson Deputy Eric Gonzalez Will Serve Remainder of Term as Brooklyn DA (Bklyn Paper) Danny Lin Gets Up […]