Twitter Citizen Takes Automated Subway Service Alerts Into His Own Hands
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The MTA has left Twitter, but the platform may yet have a future for straphangers.
Sanitation: Trash Containerization Can Be Done With a Historic Reuse of Parking; Pilot to Start This Fall
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The city can containerize its trash — and it will start testing that theory in Upper Manhattan.
EXCLU: McGuinness Blvd. to Go On Road Diet for Protected Bike Lanes
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The city plans to install protected bike lanes on both sides of deadly McGuinness Boulevard and remove a car lane in each direction as part of a major redesign of the highway-like north Brooklyn road, Streetsblog has learned.
Parks Department Finally Agrees It’s ‘Inappropriate’ to Let Drivers Defile Black History Sculpture
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A top Parks Department official has admitted it's "inappropriate" that his agency has allowed drivers to defile a memorial to enslaved Africans by parking on the plaza in Foley Square — but the agency also said it is thinking about a fix, albeit with the NYPD.
Tuesday’s Headlines: The Ultimate Accessory Edition
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Tout le monde was talking about David Byrne's appearance at the Met Gala last night, where the Talking Heads frontman showed up with the ultimate fashion statement: his bike. Plus other news.
TEMP TAG TUESDAY: We Bought a Fake Plate for N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy!
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Yes, it's time for our series of open mockery of New Jersey's weak regulations that have allowed a black market in fraudulent license plates to flourish in New York City. This week, we bought a temp tag for Gov. Phil Murphy.
Advocates Urge Feds To Not Weaken Already-Weak Crash Reporting Guidelines
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A new set of federal crash reporting guidelines could actually encourage cities to collect less data about the systemic factors behind the national traffic violence epidemic by treating basic information about road design at crash sites as optional.
Say Cheese! State Budget Lets MTA Bus Cameras Zap Bus, Loading Zone and Bike Lane Blockers
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Picture day is coming for double parkers and bus and bike lane blockers — thanks to the budget deal in Albany.
Cyclists Statewide Agree: More Bike Lanes Means More People On Bikes
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Cyclists across New York said that better bike infrastructure is the key to unlocking more bike trips across the state, according to the newly released New York Cycling Census.
Monday’s Headlines: Another Weekend, and Quarter, of CARnage Edition
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Fifty-one people — including a record-high nine people on bikes — were killed on the roads in the first quarter of 2023. Plus other news.
In Wake of Death, Pols Want Mid-Block Crossings, Safer Atlantic Ave.
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"It is wrong how deadly this strip is," Council Member Lincoln Restler said of the portion of Atlantic Avenue that functions as a speedway for drivers between the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Barclays Center.
With ‘Sammy’s Law’ Not in the State Budget, It’s Up to the City Council to Push It
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Life-saving legislation that would allow New York City to set speed limits below 25 miles per hour failed to make it into this year's state budget, legislative leaders said — effectively kicking responsibility to the City Council.