Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

Mayor’s Report Card: Fewer Fatalities, and Fewer Bike Lanes, Plazas, Bus Lanes, Citi Bike Users (Politico) De Blasio Says He Won’t Hand Over MTA Capital Funding Without Guarantees From Cuomo (News 1, 2) MTA Bus Driver Strikes, Kills Sick Person Exiting Cab (Post, DNA, WCBS, WPIX, WNBC) 24th Precinct Claims Its Spike in Cyclist Tickets Have Reduced […]

Coalition Led by Times Sq Alliance Releases Report: Keep the Plazas, Curb the Street Performers (NYT) TWU Pays for Ads Backing Team Cuomo’s Line on Capital Program Funding (News) Voters Don’t Like Cuomo-De Blasio Wars, But Cuomo Comes Out Ahead of Mayor (Politico, News) What Truce? Uber Hires More Political Operatives, Prepares Its Own Report to Rebut City Hall (WSJ) […]

Bill Bratton, Political Free Agent, Says He Intentionally Kicked Up Fuss Over Times Square Plazas (WSJ) Times Square Task Force Members Still Waiting for Their First Meeting (WNBC) NYPD Hands Out Jaywalking Tickets If the Precinct Commander Feels Like It (Village Voice) Most Peds Killed in Southern Bklyn Are Old, So NYPD Hands Out Ped-Blaming Flyers (DNA) More […]

Alexa Cioffi, 21, Killed While Bicycling After Boat Trailer Detaches, Strikes Her (Advance, News, Post) Turning Van Driver Critically Injures Flatiron Pedestrian; No Charges (News, Post) The News Isn’t Having Any of Cuomo’s Spin: He’s to Blame for MTA’s Maintenance Failings Up to 10,000 NYC Cars to Be Equipped in US DOT “Smart Vehicle” Pilot […]

It Really Happened: 7 Service Launches at Hudson Yards (NYT, WSJ, 2nd Ave Sagas, Gothamist, Crain’s) Cuomo Surrogate Tom Prendergast Clumsily Blames de Blasio for G Train Derailment (Politico, Gothamist) …Which Made for Some Awkward Moments at the 7 Extension Presser (Politico, WNYC, News, Post) Doctoroff: Value Capture Could Pay for 7 Station at 42nd and 10th (News) NYPD Officer Files […]

Barry Grodenchik Wins Primary to Replace Mark Weprin in Council (NY1, News, Observer, Politico) Times Square Alliance Backs Plan From Electeds to Keep Plazas and Deal With Desnudas (News) Queens CB 10 (Q Chron) and Rockaway Rail Advocates (TL) Afraid of Bus Lanes on Woodhaven Officer Who Arrested James Blake Also Has Aggressive Sidewalk Biking […]