Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

To paraphrase the Ramones, “DDC did a job on me.” Yes, it’s time for our latest Flushing Avenue update. As we reported in September, the transformation of Flushing Avenue from a terribly unsafe place for cyclists into an oasis with a two-way, fully protected bike lane, was supposed to be done by this month. Update: […]

That was fast. Roughly one day after New York State made history by setting up a congestion pricing cordon around Manhattan’s central business district, the backlash began. We mentioned it in our story about the coming carveout crisis, but the Daily News’s Clayton Guse devoted a whole story to a new Quinnipiac poll showing New […]

Our favorite story yesterday was the video of that cop using his squad car as a battering ram in Flushing. The Daily News also covered the story, adding nice details, including one person whose truck ended up bashed in what New York’s Hometown Paper definitively declared road rage (the NYPD said the cop become “disoriented.” […]

A lot of outlets treat April 1 like it’s a day to completely upend the basic tenet of journalism and instead run a bunch of stories that simply aren’t true. But here at Streetsblog, we’re dead serious about the truth, so we would obviously never stoop to printing fake stories on so-called April Fool’s Day […]