Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

Got those taxes done? No? Well, you can be forgiven if you need to download this 1040 form right now and get those unreimbursed business expenses added up on Schedule C. But if you’ve filed your taxes, why not check out the news from the weekend: We were the first out of the gate with our report […]

Good morning! The L train repairs won’t start for a few more weeks, but the MTA is going to suspend weeknight service from April 15-26, amNY reported. Not so good morning. Here’s the rest of the news from a slow day yesterday: Congestion pricing is going to really hurt the parking industry, according to the […]

We were very sorry to hear that a 4-year-old was reportedly hit by a cyclist in Riverside Park on Monday. The West Side Rag suggested that cyclists are a rogue element in Riverside Park, but the website also revealed that there have been only two prior reported crashes in the 20th Precinct portion of the park […]

Yesterday was the slowest transportation news day in months. It was so slow that we’re going to lead this page with our news-free exchange with a clearly uninspired Mayor de Blasio yesterday over congestion pricing exemptions: Streetsblog: So, yesterday in the Daily News, PBA President Pat Lynch wrote an op-ed, urging that [the state] to […]

Mayor de Blasio shook up his senior communications staff on Monday (Politico, NYDN, NY Post), which is what you do when you’re running for president — which the Post editorial board thinks is the most laughable thing it has ever heard. The internet, of course, long ago started acting like de Blasio isn’t even mayor anymore. […]

We want to start by thanking volunteers and Transportation Alternatives for Sunday’s memorial ride to mark the second anniversary of the death of Gelacio Reyes, the father of three and delivery worker who was killed on then-unprotected 43rd Avenue in Queens in 2017. Reyes’s death remains an open wound for his friends and family, but […]