Monday’s Headlines: A Weekend of Carnage Edition
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It was another weekend of carnage across the city thanks, in part, to hit-and-run drivers. Plus lots of transit news in the daily digest.
Gov. Hochul’s Penn Station Tax Giveaway Makes Less Sense Than Ever
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Emails show collaboration between the state's economic development agency and a real estate firm headed by a major donor to Gov. Hochul. Will taxpayers be holding the bag (again)?
Paging Kevin Roose! My Conversation with the Bing Chatbot Was Much Better than Yours!
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Here's a story about why we no longer fear artificial intelligence, and, indeed, hope it will someday be running the country.
THE POWER BROKERS: Brooklyn Machine Fights Smaller BQE at Closed-Door City Hall Meeting
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The Brooklyn Democratic machine wants a "superhighway in perpetuity," said one supporter of narrowing the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
MTA Boss: ‘Fingers Crossed’ Feds Will Soon Greenlight Congestion Pricing
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Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, Janno?
‘Citizen Reporting’ Bill Moves Forward, But Without the Bounty
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A long-stalled bill that would allow people to report drivers who block bike or bus lanes is about to move forward in the City Council, but without its central feature: people who make complaints will no longer receive 25 percent of the resulting ticket revenue.
Friday’s Headlines: We Have a Winner(s) Edition
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our colleagues at Open Plans held their first "Public Space Awards" to honor, well, the award-winning public spaces and, more important, the people who make them happen. Plus other news!
Analysis: Hochul Turns Her Back on Transit Riders With Her MTA Budget
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Gov. Hochul's budget not only asks city residents to cover the largest chunk of the MTA's budget gap, but does so in part by continuing long-running practices that essentially under-fund the MTA by millions of dollars each year.
City Hall: We Hear that People Want to Keep Three-Lane BQE (Really?!)
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Some elected officials and locals are telling City Hall that they want to keep three travel lanes in each direction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, a top city official said on Thursday — despite nearly two dozen area politicians who have called for no more than two lanes.
Streetsblog Gets Action: Battery ‘Buy-Back’ Program and Other Lithium-Ion Bills Advance in Council
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A Manhattan Council member introduced legislation on Thursday that would create a citywide "buy back" program for uncertified lithium-ion batteries that have sparked dozens of fires — a proposal that comes two weeks after Streetsblog proposed it (see inset).
Another Terror Attack on a Bike Lane — This Time in Prospect Park
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Someone wants to hurt cyclists.
Opinion: Council Needs to Make Battery Package Better
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Preventing battery fires is supporting delivery workers. Ensuring all e-bike batteries are safe is supporting delivery workers. We can have both: A city free of dangerous fires and a city that supports its delivery workers. We want legislation that puts safe batteries in the hands of the delivery workers who rely on them.