Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

Daily News: Better Use of de Blasio’s Ferry Subsidies Would Be Discount MetroCards for Low-Income New Yorkers Turning Commuter Van Driver Strikes and Kills Khavir Ahmed, 84, in Jamaica (News) Hit-and-Run Driver Inflicts Head Trauma on Cyclist in Bay Ridge (News) DOT Makes No Promises for Deadly 43rd Ave, Will “Study” Safety Improvements (DNA, News) NYPD Has […]

Kelly Hurley, 31, Struck By Truck Driver on 1st Ave Last Week, Has Died From the Injuries (News, DNA) Will Broadway in Midtown Go Car-Free More Than Six Hours a Year? (AMNY) Starting in September, Boarding the Staten Island Ferry Won’t Feel Like Such a Crush (DNA, Post) NY Waterway Will Make Its Hoboken-Midtown Service Permanent (Post) David […]

Albany’s Final Budget Includes Cuomo’s $65 Million MTA Funding Cut (AMNY, News) Watch the Failure of Federal and State Transport Policy Play Out Before Your Eyes (MTR) Gateway Builders Look to Get Hudson Transit Tunnel Done With Private Finance (Politico, WNYC) NJ Lawmakers Come Out Swinging Against Cuomo’s Port Authority Power Grab (Politico) Turning Driver Strikes Cyclist at Same Sunnyside […]

New York’s Budget Deal Hands Cuomo a Cudgel to Bludgeon the Port Authority (Politico) Cuomo and Christie Want in on Amtrak’s Penn Station Inspection (AMNY, Post, NY1) NY/NJ Senators Warn of a World Without Federal Transit Funding (NYT) The Times and Nicole Gelinas Call Out Trump’s Incoherence on Infrastructure Truck Driver Backs Over and Kills Hou Li, 63, in Williamsburg Parking […]

Albany Reaches a Budget Deal That Empowers Cuomo in Future Budget Talks (Politico) Speeding Driver Kills 21-Year-Old Man, Injures 5 Others in Brownsville (Gothamist, Post 1, 2, 3) Elderly SUV Driver Veers Onto Astoria Sidewalk, Injures Man and Smashes Into a Building (Post) Stoned Unlicensed Box Truck Driver Critically Injures Girl in Williamsburg (DNA) The Times Delves […]

Penn Station Wasn’t Fixed in Time for This Morning’s Commute (AMNY, Post, NY1, AP) Derailment Caused by Known Track Flaw Amtrak Failed to Fix (NYT, Politico) Penn Dysfunction Has Transit Experts Pining for Gateway (Politico, WNYC, MTR) Astoria Ferry Launch Date Pegged for August (DNA) Advance Maps Thousands of Staten Island “Accidents” CB 3 Begs DOT for Relief […]