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Deliveristas rally at City Hall Park for a package of City Hall bills that would regulate delivery apps. Photo: Dave Colon

RELIEF! Council Bill Would Let Delivery Riders Use Restaurant Bathrooms...

By Dave Colon | Apr 28, 2021 | No Comments

The City Council is stepping in to make sure that the city's delivery riders can use the bathrooms at restaurants when they pick up food orders through third-party apps.

Delivery workers are treated badly. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

... And Here's a Delivery Worker's Own Story

By Streetsblog | Apr 28, 2021 | No Comments

One delivery worker speaks out about basic human dignity that is denied him and his co-workers.

Pissing contest: Ken Coughlin, who presented the resolution, is second from left on the top row.

Supposedly Progressive Upper West Side Offers No Relief to Deliveristas

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 26, 2021 | No Comments

Community board members to bike delivery workers: Piss off!

Wednesday’s Headlines: A Truth-Telling Commission Edition

By Streetsblog | Mar 24, 2021 | No Comments

Mayor de Blasio creates a commission to address the city's racist past. We're all for it. Plus all the other news.

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This Year’s List of the Most Dangerous Cities for Walkers Is Unacceptably Familiar

By Kea Wilson | Mar 10, 2021 | No Comments

Every single state in America but one has gotten more dangerous for walkers in the last two years — and the only one that didn't only managed to maintain its abysmal rate of walking fatalities, rather than reducing it.

It could be a big one — but it could also end up as rain.

Monday’s Headlines: It’s Snow Day Off For Us Edition

By Streetsblog | Feb 1, 2021 | No Comments

Big storm coming. Curl up with today's headlines — special COVID scandal edition.

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