Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bill de Blasio

Ashley Price speaking during rally. Photo: Fiifi Frimpong

The Mayor’s Time to Implement Bronx Bus Lanes is Running Out

By Fiifi Frimpong | Aug 5, 2021 | No Comments

Activists and politicians demanded on Wednesday that Mayor de Blasio fulfill his longstanding promise to begin work on multiple Bronx bus lane projects — and do so before students head back to school, an annual rite that leads to more traffic.

All these mayoral hopefuls (from left, Eric Adams, Kathryn Garcia, Scott Stringer, Maya Wiley and Andrew Yang) have signed the petition calling for a linear park on 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights. (Art Chang has also signed.)

Mayor Won’t Commit to Bold Plan for 34th Avenue that All His Would-Be Successors Support

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 16, 2021 | No Comments

The stall continues.

Mayor Bill de Blasio wears a blue suit and baseball cap and rides the F Train from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Wednesday, May 12, 2021.

De Blasio Relents On MTA’s Insatiable Demand For Cops — But It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way

By Christopher Robbins | May 18, 2021 | No Comments

Mayor de Blasio caved to the demands from the state-controlled MTA to send even more cops into the subway system — a decision that underscored how easily this mayor is cowed, but also paves the way for a new approach by whoever is sworn in next year.