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WEBSep 13, 2024 · ‘A Very Dangerous Job’: Dozens of NYC School Crossing Guards Injured by Drivers Since 2012, Records Show. As thousands of guards returned to street corners across the city last week for the reopening of public schools, records obtained by Streetsblog reveal the dangers that guards face on the job.
Five Takeaways From the NYPD ‘Goon Squad’ Guidebook
WEBApr 13, 2021 · The notoriously aggressive NYPD officers who used their bikes as weapons to violently stop peaceful protesters last year were merely following their own handbook, according to a new bombshell report from The Intercept.. In January, Attorney General Letitia James filed a federal lawsuit against the NYPD for its use of excessive force during months of summer protests that began after the police ...
Brooklyn Bridge Cycling is Soaring Thanks to New Lane
WEBNov 8, 2021 · Cycling is skyrocketing on the Brooklyn Bridge since the city built a new bike-only path on the historically dangerously overcrowded span, with the number of trips up 88 percent this October compared to the same time last year, the Department of Transportation said on Monday. The new eight-foot two-way bike path on the roadbed of the bridge’s ...
Report: 70 Percent of City Drivers are Speeding (Maybe Even Right …
WEBJun 3, 2021 · Seventy percent of New York City drivers were spotted exceeding the posted speed limit — some by more than double — according to a new report that will be issued today by Transportation Alternatives, which hopes the study will create more momentum behind a package of bills in Albany to rein in New York’s reckless drivers. First, the …
Report: Racial and Economic Inequities in Transit Affect …
WEBJun 18, 2021 · Black and Brown New Yorkers are more likely to rely on public transit to get to work in the New York City area, but on average have far less access to jobs as their car-driving neighbors, who are often wealthier, whiter, and live in the 'burbs, according to a new study that highlights the city and state’s transit inequities and its effects on jobs attainability.
The New York of 2016 Needs the Wide, Generous Sidewalks of 1906
WEBJul 1, 2016 · The Times ran a feature on the pedestrian crush in New York City today, and as good as the photos are, they don't do the situation justice. To get a sense of just how inadequate the sidewalks are in Midtown, you need to go there -- or failing that, watch this Streetfilm from 2009 with narration by Streetsblog publisher Mark Gorton. Believe it or not, these scenes of people overflowing off the ...
Analysis: De Blasio’s Open Streets Program Has Failed
WEBOct 12, 2021 · 34th Avenue Open Street. Analysis: De Blasio’s Open Streets Program Has Failed. By Dave Colon. 5:00 AM EDT on October 12, 2021. When open streets work, New Yorkers love them. Photos: Gersh Kuntzman. The de Blasio Administration's open streets program is a Tale of Two Cities, with a majority of streets already reclaimed by …
EXCLUSIVE: City Takes Major Steps to Get Garbage off the Sidewalk
WEBMar 11, 2020 · Bad news for city rats is great news for city residents. The Department of Sanitation will announce on Thursday two major initiatives to get filthy bags of seeping garbage out of the way of pedestrians and into on-street containers where they belong — the result of a year-long process to stop a decades-old city blight.. The first proposal calls for a new city rule requiring all new 300-plus ...
Your Unanswered Questions on the Interborough Express, Answered
WEBJan 24, 2023 · It's full speed ahead on the Interborough Express, Gov. Hochul and the MTA's planned project to provide a new transit connection between Brooklyn to Queens.The transit project — which will use an existing right of way between Bay Ridge and Jackson Heights that runs through Flatbush, Brownsville, East New York and Maspeth, is currently only used by freight rail — is slated to be part of the ...
Streetsblog New York City – Covering the fight for sustainable cities
WEBJun 8, 2023 · Because people are dying and being maimed on New York's most-dangerous 25-mile-per-hour streets. The bill does not mandate lower speed limits, but would only allow New York City to reduce some — and the city Department of Transportation would likely start on the streets with the most crashes, many of …
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