Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

We started yesterday’s headlines file with a mild concern about the NYPD’s plan to stop responding to minor fender-benders or crashes without injuries in Staten Island. We fretted that if cops aren’t there to log crashes, the total number of reported crashes will fall — which will give all of us a false sense of […]

Um, what could possibly go wrong? Apparently, cops in Staten Island will no longer respond to routine fender-benders because they take up too much manpower, NY1 reported. But Myles Miller’s scoop suggested that such collisions may not be reported anymore — which raises questions about whether our “data-driven” Department of Transportation will know which intersections are […]

We’ll cap off our week of investigations into the horrendous driving records of NYPD officers with a 6:30 a.m. spot on NY1’s “Mornings on 1” show today — hopefully Pat Kiernan will share a banquette with our editor Gersh Kuntzman instead of the cold anchor desk. But we’re just pleased that the affable Canadian has […]

We spent most of the week writing about cops who drive recklessly in their personal cars when they’re off-duty. We found that roughly 40 percent of cops have multiple speeding or red light tickets. And we found one recidivist assigned to the 23rd Precinct in Manhattan with 41 of those serious moving violations. And later […]

We checked out the gala preview of the Museum of the City of New York’s “Cycling in the City” exhibit last night, “partying” with Friends of Streetsblog Jon Orcutt, Charles Komanoff, Helen Ho, Do Lee, Ken Podziba and many other safe streets legends. During the wine-and-cheese hour, someone called Streetfilms auteur Clarence Eckerson Jr. “the […]

Have you been loving how we have been bashing Mayor de Blasio for four straight days? It all started when the mayor came up with this crazy plan to curb placard abuse by building more free parking for cops, which we thought was dumb because we all know that free parking dramatically increases the chance that […]