Report: New York’s Essential Delivery Workers are Underpaid, Underappreciated, Victimized
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Low pay. Grueling hours. Long work weeks. Theft. Crashes. Discomfort. Disrespect. This is the life of the New York City delivery worker.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Organizations
Opinion: To Avoid a COVID Resurgence, Mayor de Blasio Must Create Open Streets for Schools
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Taking our schools outdoors should not be a revolutionary idea, after our year-long dining experiment. Yet the city has been sluggish at best about moving schools into outdoor space, let alone streets.
DOT Will Pull the Trigger on Navy Street Protected Bike Lane
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The Department of Transportation quietly announced on Tuesday that it was moving ahead with a protected bike lane on Navy Street, filling in a missing link connecting the Brooklyn waterfront to DUMBO and the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges.
Please Stay On The Grass: More Absorbent Streets Could Mean Less Catastrophically Flooded Subways
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Here’s what the city has to do now. Ripping up some asphalt is a start.
REST IN PEACE, SARAH: Dangerous Williamsburg Intersection Gets Overdue Fix
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It's a safety fix that one victim's family says should have come sooner.
Self-Driving Car Industry, Promising Safety, Pushes Back on DOT Plan to Regulate Testing
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The proposed rules would make NYC "inhospitable" to life-saving autonomous vehicle technology, reps for tech giants said at a hearing on Wednesday.