Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

BQX May Require New Bridges Over Newtown Creek, Gowanus Canal (NYT, Bklyn Paper) More From City Hall’s Streetcar Briefing With the Press (WNYC) MTA Wants $66M to Accelerate Work on 2nd Ave Subway, Meet December Deadline (2nd Ave Sagas) When the 2nd Ave Subway Starts Running, W Service Will Return to Astoria (2nd Ave Sagas, […]

Hit a Cop With Your Car, You’re Getting Arrested (News, Post); Strike and Kill a Civilian? Meh Donovan Richards to DOT: Put a Speed Camera Where Van Driver Killed 16-Year-Old Alexa Smith (TL) Manhattan CB 4 Wants to See All the Local Police Reports for Crashes That Injured Pedestrians (DNA) Meanwhile, Brooklyn CB 4 Remains Stuck in the […]

Driver Charged With Manslaughter for Killing SI Cyclist Stanley Marshall (Gothamist, News, Advance) Think the Port Authority Is Hopeless? Read This: Record Staten Island Electeds Call Out de Blasio for Prioritizing BQX Over West Shore Light Rail (Advance) Stringer Says City Is Sitting on Hundreds of Vacant Lots That Could Be Used for Housing (NYT) Queens […]

Still More Streetcar Questions Than Answers (Politico, Post, Bklyn Paper) More on de Blasio’s BQX Pep Rally: Gothamist, AMNY, NY1, DNA Driver Critically Injures Staten Island Cyclist (Advance 1, 2) Crain’s Speculates on How Mayor and City Council May Come to Terms on Rezonings Staten Island Officials Pin Economic Hopes on Cuomo-Subsidized Mall (Politico) Citi Bike Riders Took […]

Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Led to a Building Boom. Can Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar Do the Same? (NYT) Politico Dives Deep Into Cuomo’s Subsidies for the New Staten Island Outlet Mall/Ferris Wheel After Uber Cut Fares, Trips Surged in Every Borough (Post) Train Riders Got a Feel for What Grand Central Will Look Like After the Apocalypse (DNA, Post, News) DOT to […]

Turning Truck Driver Kills Elise Lachowyn, 44, By Javits Center; Victim Blamed for Wearing Hood (Post) DOT to Widen Sidewalk Where Tenzin Drudak Was Killed, Shrink Sidewalk on Other Side of Street (DNA) Con-Ed, National Grid Want MTA to Pay for Relocating Utilities for Second Ave Subway (Post) Calatrava: $4 Billion WTC PATH Station a “Message of […]