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BREAKING: A judge intervened to stop Mayor Adams's bid to remove a three-block stretch of the Bedford Avenue protected bike lane, just hours before the city was set to begin the demolition process on Tuesday evening. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/15/app…
Everyone who’s riding an e-bike should have access to a safe battery that's not going to catch fire. Hundreds of Crown Heights delivery workers will now have exactly this! Today in @StreetsblogNYC:
At the Ebbets Field Apartments, where tenants say residents live in fear of e-bike battery fires, PopWheels, a battery swap startup, has opened a swap location which will have seven charging cabinets. The company is aiming to get workers who live in the building to sign up.
Big news for Brooklyn commuters! The @MTA Capital Plan includes elevators at 3⃣ more stations in our district (Franklin Ave-Medgar Evers, Grand Army Plaza and Botanic Garden). Congestion pricing revenue is making these investments possible- while reducing traffic + pollution!
NEW: @MTA announces 12 additional stations getting elevators: 53 St R; 63 Dr-Rego Park; 190 St A; Bedford-Nostrand Av G Botanic Garden; Cathedral Pkwy; Eastchester-Dyre; Fordham Rd BD Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College Grand Army Plaza 23 Grand Av-Newtown Woodlawn 4 #NBC4NY
Hundreds of delivery workers live at the sprawling Ebbets Field complex, which has seen at least two e-bike battery fires in recent years. PopWheels is trying to make this safer for everyone by charging batteries in fire-safe cabinets outdoors. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/22/e-b…
Because locals complained about losing parking, Uptown cyclists will now have to cross a highway on-ramp and take a flight of stairs to get to the Hudson River Greenway. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/22/dot…
Mayor Adams should know how dangerous the area at Canal St. at the base of the Manhattan Bridge: He rallied there as a NY State Senator in 2007 after a cyclist was killed by a driver. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/21/stu…
Come for the analysis of last week's dustup between Rep. Jerry Nadler and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, but stay for Justin Fox's expert analysis on why the car-brained federal government is just dead wrong on the actual risks faced by commuters. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/22/tue…
🚨A NEW DELIVERISTA FIGHT BEGINS! We’re launching a campaign to win Just Cause & deactivation protections for 80,000 deliveristas across NYC. 🙏🏽Thank you @JustinBrannan, Deliverista Champion, for introducing this bill. We’re ready to win. 📰Read more👇🏾 nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/18/new…
We installed that ghostbike in 2007 - its still a death trap. Rest in peace Sam Hindy ghostbikes.org/ghostbikes.org…
There was once a ghost bike at this exact location. But it kept being destroyed by cars. We replaced it more times than any other ghost bike in the city before giving up. nbcnewyork.com/news/local/cyc…
We need the road diet in the north *now*
What happened was exactly what advocates predicted would happen when Mayor Adams watered down a plan to make cyclists safer on McGuinness Blvd in Greenpoint. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/20/cyc…
There's a silver lining to Mayor Adams's interference and shortcomings: Many very promising projects will require little or no work to become reality — giving a fresh-faced, bereted or graying newcomer easy wins ... if he wants them. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/21/the…
As happened on Third Avenue in Brooklyn, as will happen if Bedford Avenue's protected bike lane is removed. @NYCMayor's corrupt politics, bowing to donors and groups whose votes he wants in November, is killing people. He has blood on his hands.
What happened was exactly what advocates predicted would happen when Mayor Adams watered down a plan to make cyclists safer on McGuinness Blvd in Greenpoint. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/20/cyc…
What happened was exactly what advocates predicted would happen when Mayor Adams watered down a plan to make cyclists safer on McGuinness Blvd in Greenpoint. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/20/cyc…
The pattern is clear-@NYC_DOT develops a plan to make a known dangerous street safer, implements or prepares to implement the plan, politically influential people object directly to the @NYCMayor & he delays or nixes the plans. Politics are hurting & killing people on our streets
A cyclist was injured on a stretch of McGuinness Blvd. that was supposed to have been made safer ... until Mayor Adams intervened on behalf of campaign donors: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/20/cyc…
When the same crash recurs at a location many times, it is bc of street design that is fundamentally unsafe. If streets are designed to be safe, there are no crashes. This is a choice.
Two destructive crashes happened at the same intersection of Canal St. and the Bowery less than 24 hours apart over the weekend. One of them killed a pedestrian sitting on a bench, and a cyclist. Does anyone at City Hall care? nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/21/mon…
I went to Canal and Bowery off the Manhattan Bridge to take photos of the crash site for work on Sunday morning, and found this banged-up white Infiniti instead of the Chevy Malibu that I'd seen pictures of in other news reports. It was a separate crash, in the exact same place.
Two destructive crashes happened at the same intersection of Canal St. and the Bowery less than 24 hours apart over the weekend. One of them killed a pedestrian sitting on a bench, and a cyclist. Does anyone at City Hall care? nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/21/mon…
Two destructive crashes happened at the same intersection of Canal St. and the Bowery less than 24 hours apart over the weekend. One of them killed a pedestrian sitting on a bench, and a cyclist. Does anyone at City Hall care? nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/21/mon…
