Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Eric Adams

Citi Bike Raises Fees as Advocates Urge Mayor Adams to Keep His Promise of Public Funding

By Gersh Kuntzman | Dec 29, 2022 | No Comments

Citi Bike told its 215,000 members the bad news: Annual memberships will rise to $205 from the current $185. And electric bikes will cost 17 cents per minute instead of 15 cents per minute.

Just walking onto the bus: Cheaper than you might have thought? Photo: Kevin Duggan

EXCLUSIVE: Fair Fares to Roll Out on OMNY Next Year But Enrollment Still Lags

By Kevin Duggan | Oct 26, 2022 | No Comments

The city's Fair Fares program providing half-priced MetroCards to low-income New Yorkers will transition to the MTA's OMNY payment system next year, Streetsblog has learned.

Mayor Adams stood next to a selection of Sanitation compost bins at the recent announcement that universal composting pickup will start in Queens. Photo: Mayor's Office

Queens Composting Overtakes Old Opt-in Program, But Still Has a Long Way to Go

By Kevin Duggan | Oct 24, 2022 | No Comments

Queens is getting its crap together.

Mayor Adams (with a laughing Council Member Marjorie Velázquez and other council members on February 6, 2022. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office

Mayor Adams: Keep DOT in Charge of Open Restaurants

By Kevin Duggan | Oct 20, 2022 | No Comments

Mayor Adams is pushing the City Council to keep the Department of Transportation in charge of outdoor dining, rather than move it to the much smaller Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, a move that advocates fear would sabotage the popular al-fresco "streeteries."

‘A NIMBY City Hall’: Adams Appointees Thwart Key Bike and Bus Projects

By Jesse Coburn | Oct 17, 2022 | No Comments

As the city seeks to redesign its streets to better serve transit riders, pedestrians and cyclists, interference is emerging from an unlikely place: City Hall itself. And one division of City Hall in particular.

On Jan. 19, Mayor Adams journeyed to Coney Island Avenue to promise to fix 1,000 intersections. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Update: ‘Get Stuff Done’ Mayor Far Behind on his Vow to Fix 1,000 Intersections

By Gersh Kuntzman | Sep 21, 2022 | No Comments

The mayor isn't even halfway towards reaching his promise to "make design improvements" at 1,000 intersections this year — and the promised redesigns have overwhelmingly been merely changing the timing of traffic lights.

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