Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eric Adams

We Were Right: Mayor’s Management Report Confirms Streetsblog Reporting Previously Criticized by City Officials

By Gersh Kuntzman | Feb 2, 2023 | No Comments

A series of articles in Streetsblog last year that was highly criticized by City Hall because it outlined failures of the Department of Transportation to meet bus and bike lane mileage requirements due to staffing shortages and political waffling has just been confirmed — by City Hall.

What do we want? (Clockwise from top left) Summer Streets in Brooklyn and Queens, the City of Yes zoning, more open streets and a permanent open restaurant program.

What the Livable Streets Movement Wants from Thursday’s State of the City Address

By Chelsea Dowell | Jan 25, 2023 | No Comments

Mayor Adams’s State of the City address on Thursday will set the tone for the coming year — and you can learn a lot about a leader by what he or she chooses to highlight at such a public address.

Maybe Mayor Adams will do to the media what he sometimes does to defunct dining sheds.

Tuesday’s Headlines: Who Needs the Media Edition

By Streetsblog Editorial Board | Jan 24, 2023 | No Comments

The big story was Mayor Adams's announcement that he doesn't need reporters asking nosey questions because he's setting up his own newsletter! Plus other news.

Longtime food vendor M.D. Rahman was booted from the Brooklyn Bridge, but he was back last week. Photo: Kevin Duggan

‘The Mayor Wants This’: City Boots Vendors From Brooklyn Bridge — EXCLUSIVE

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 22, 2023 | No Comments

The city booted vendors from the Brooklyn Bridge walkway and has started deploying regular police patrols to stop them from setting back up on the busy pedestrian path — and the removal orders came straight from Mayor Adams, sellers told Streetsblog.

You will only be boarding the front of the bus for a while.

Transit Equity? Adams Budget Adds No New Funds for Fair Fares Discount Program

By Kevin Duggan | Jan 12, 2023 | No Comments

Mayor Adams's preliminary budget does not increase funding for Fair Fares, the city's half-price MetroCard program for very low-income transit riders — a program that only last year, Mayor Adams called "transformative."

Eric Adams in 2022: Big Words, Lots of Swagger, Modest Accomplishments — An Analysis

By Dave Colon | Dec 29, 2022 | No Comments

To paraphrase one of Mayor Adams's popular predecessors, how's he doin'?

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