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Come join me to discuss @ryangoldberg.bsky.social's great new book Bird City on March 21 in Washington Heights!
Next Saturday, on the first full day of spring, I'll be discussing my book Bird City with @kevinduggan.bsky.social at The Fountain Bookshop in upper Manhattan, followed by a bird walk in nearby Fort Tryon Park. Come join us!
State legislators cut Gov. Hochul's controversial auto insurance deregulation from their budget proposals. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/10/b...
In the absence of the City Council implementing the nearly two-year-old citywide speed limit reduction to 20 mph allowed under Sammy's Law, community boards are now pushing DOT to lower speeds district by district. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/09/c...
The vastness of the Rockaway Pkwy/Linden Blvd intersection is difficult to do justice to with a camera
A revealing look into Gov. Hochul's maneuvers to boost her push to deregulate auto insurance.
Parker waited over half-an-hour for the Bx36 bus on Tremont Avenue, one of the slowest buses in the country.
Mayor Mamdani is hoping to revive a busway project that was shelved by the Adams administration — so long as the federal government doesn't get in his way. youtube.com/shorts/Ft_24...
Another day, another NYPD bike sting near the Zohramp nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/05/t...
Rather than chipping away at crash victims’ rights in order to lower car insurance costs, Gov. Hochul should push pay-as-you-drive auto insurance, which would reduce costs while also cutting driving, crashes and pollution. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/05/s...
I'm so proud of my reporters @kevinduggan.bsky.social and Austin C. Jefferson for their continued coverage of Gov. Hochul's attempt to lower the cost of driving by lowering compensation to victims of crashes. The latest:
empire.streetsblog.org/state-senate...
Damn where’d you guys meet her nygroove.nyc/garbage-clea...
The FDNY must get with DOT's life-saving program of rolling out protected bike lanes, @cmrestler.bsky.social wrote in a letter to Mayor Mamdani's Fire Commissioner Bonsignore, following a disastrous Council hearing where Fire brass railed against the paths. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/04/l...
The new mayor said he wants "streets that are the envy of the world" — yet his Department of Transportation continues its predecessor's flawed policy on daylighting. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/03/n...
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The city will rebuild a section of Broadway north of the Flatiron, replacing painted plazas and shared streets with concrete. But the six-block buildout will take until 2031 and cost more than $150 million. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/02/27/b...
Meanwhile on Fifth Avenue, the "pedestrian first" plan still includes three lanes of through traffic. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/12/03/o...
FDNY brass fanned the flames of a bikelash City Council hearing, calling the safety of protected bike lanes into question without any data to back that up, and contradicting DOT officials sitting right next to them. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/02/26/m...
I say claims, because DOT keeps a clear lane wide enough for FDNY access, as seen here bsky.app/profile/kevi...
Chief Woods claims that the FDNY doesn't use protected bike lanes for emergency vehicle access.
“We don’t use the bike lanes because we’re concerned that we could actually hit a bicyclist in that bike lane," he says.
“We don’t use a bike lane and we don’t stress our members to use a bike lane."
Per DOT's website: “It is illegal to park within 15 feet of either side of a fire hydrant, including on floating parking lanes (next to protected bike lanes).” www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm...
Kevin Woods, Chief of Fire Operations at FDNY, walks back an earlier comment that FD opposes protected bike lanes.
"We’re not against protected bike lanes, we’re against the complexity that it brings on and we’re willing to work with DOT," Chief Woods says.
Chief Woods says they need more than the standard 30 feet clearance for a hydrant when there's a protected bike lane.
The DOT official sitting right next to him says this is the first time he's hearing that FDNY needs more clearance.
CM Ariola is now showing a slideshow of locations she claims are more dangerous, like this section of Court Street, which recently got a road diet and a protected bike lane.
Worth noting that the area's CM @cmrestler.bsky.social opposes her law for firehouse consultation
Now CM Simcha Felder says he doesn't trust the city's safety stats of bike lanes.
Notes he's an accountant by training, claiming you can get any numbers you want.
Ariola and Restler get into a back and forth, with Ariola saying DOT is moving forward without consultation from FDNY, while Restler says he's never encountered a project in his district where that consultation hasn't happened.
Restler says he's disappointed that the FDNY leadership on the panel are calling into question the safety of protected bike lanes.
He backs the mayor's evidence-based approach to making streets safer.
Restler urges FDNY to put timelines on its firehouse reviews, so DOT doesn't get zero feedback and projects linger forever.
From what I understand, DOT doesn't have to wait for the firehouse feedback to proceed.
CM Restler, who voted against the legislation, says he did so because he worries it will gum up the works and notes that it has been used in lawsuits to do just that.
A good example is in Astoria, where a judge has ordered DOT to rip out a half-done bike lane nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/12/05/q...
“DOT you’ve gone wild on our streets of New York," says CM Paladino.
Calls it "insane" that the agency has "put bike riders, bus lanes, and bike racks over fire fighters."
Woods says the city should repurpose parking for "cut-outs" on some busy single-lane streets.
Nobody wants to lose their real estate or their parking spots but we need cut outs for drivers to pull into so trucks can get past, the chief says.
