1+ hour, 33+ min ago  (646+ words) New York City's delivery minimum wage more than doubled worker earnings without any adverse impact on industry revenues, according to a new report by a tech-aligned think-tank that nonetheless chides policymakers for messing with the industry's "gig-based" employment model. The…...

7+ hour, 32+ min ago  (375+ words) Two big stories over the weekend reminded anew of Streetsblog's important place in an ecosystem of outrage and lies. First, on Friday night, a driver going way too fast smashed his Mercedes into parked cars and then onto the sidewalk,…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (791+ words) This is every day on Broadway just south of Canal Street: police sirens cut through the normal chaos and people run chaotically across the street and through the intersections, dragging large laundry bins overflowing with handbags, tee-shirts and jewelry." On…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (597+ words) Cyclists are voting with their feet, but the politicians are sitting on their hands. A pair of Manhattan elected officials want a bike lane between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Hudson River Greenway " but not on Chambers Street, the crosstown…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (156+ words) On Friday, the Department of Transportation will begin installing bus lane upgrades on Lexington Avenue from E. 60th Street to E. 52nd Street, the Mamdani administration will announce later today, Streetsblog has learned. Those eight blocks of existing curbside bus lanes will shift and…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (830+ words) Nearly 1, 000 restaurants are still waiting for their outdoor dining permits under the failed program devised by the last mayor and City Council, according to Comptroller Mark Levine, who called on the Mamdani administration to unclog the backlog. The city's fiscal…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (455+ words) Go south, young Mam. Central Brooklyn businesses hope Mayor Mamdani will make it his business to extend Flatbush Avenue's new bus lanes south of Prospect Park. Martinez, who works for real estate firm and BID member United American Land, made…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (530+ words) The NYPD will double the number of officers on foot posts this summer " 3, 800 car-free beat cops across 40 precincts "evidence that NYPD leadership increasingly sees that putting cops on the beat is more effective than having them driving around. The strategy…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (269+ words) Streetsblog New York City Thursday's Headlines: Award Season Begins Edition Forgive us if we get right to the news today, but tonight is a big night for all of us at Streetsblog: We're finalists for a Deadline Club Award, thanks…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (376+ words) Mayor Mamdani will extend the 31st Avenue bike boulevard in his old Astoria neighborhood beyond Steinway Street all the way to 51st Street in Woodside, officials said on Wednesday. The Department of Transportation's bike boulevard designs maintain local car access, but dramatically…...