The tools exist to fix dangerous conditions outside school streets. Virtually overnight, we can: - Reduce speed limits outside schools - Make universal daylighting the law All eyes on you @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social

Advocates asked Cuomo to sign the pledge to Make McGuinness Safe before the primary, which is more than enough time to "review the plan." These are not the words of a candidate that is serious about street safety. www.brooklynpaper.com/demand-mcgui...

Montreal has done incredible work iterating and expanding pedestrianization programs that were born out of the pandemic, now making them permanent. Sadly, NYC has done the opposite — our pedestrianization programs are a glimmer of what they were in 2021. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is really a surreal, insane thing to see. Advocates put so much into trying to make McGuinness safe, and tolerated condescension and self-righteousness from Eric Adams and Ingrid Lewis-Martin at every turn. Turns out, they were being bribed the whole time!

This kind of treatment can be a model for New York — to create permeable surfaces, reduce flooding and combined sewer overflow, and ultimately make our waterways clean and swimmable. But we need to secure the space on our streets to do it!

This crash in Astoria this morning killed 3, including 2 pedestrians. Everyone can agree, the status quo on our streets is unacceptable. We need to embrace real systemic and structural changes to keep pedestrians safe. @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social what will you do? abc7ny.com/post/astoria...

Because @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ran a people-powered campaign/is not beholden to special interests, he can truly advance policy and infra solutions that make streets safe and improve transit — this is a generational opportunity to transform our urban landscape nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/06/26/h...

A judge has issued a temporary restraining order preventing Mayor Adams and Ydanis Rodriguez from ripping up a piece of the protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...

The NY Times non-endorsement and its “eh, Brad’s fine but not super awesome and tough like the big ol’ sex pest” take looks worse with each passing moment.

Absolutely horrifying how many human lives our mayor is willing to put at risk to score political points.

Something a lot of people who don't cover transportation politics don't know is that there's a small number of deeply unwell guys who show up to aggressively heckle at transit/safe streets events and make content of it. It's breaking containment now, which is uh, cool

I'm not sure that Citizens Union can continue to call itself a good government group.

Kudos to @dmey.bsky.social for jumping in the Open Streets beat to report Cuomo and @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social don't know if they support Open Streets. The official position of mayoral candidates shouldn't be "I don't know." Not indicative of good leadership. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/07/e...

This is an outrageous policy change. Also, if you’re gonna do this then you gotta do it for drivers, too right? Given those are obviously far far more dangerous vehicles. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...

Lincoln Square Road Closure and Accompanying Comments From The Local Facebook Page (April 2025)

I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm one of the people other bicyclists ask questions to now. Bike Brooklyn! is a zine I made that touches on everything I wish I knew when I started biking in Brooklyn: lizdenys.com/bikebk/

Testimony from @ammorano.bsky.social, co-chair of @tabk.bsky.social:

For the record, Council Member Chris Banks just said the words that "we all want safety, but parking is more important."

A week or so ago this number was only $10k. What changed? This is an obvious political lie by the agency to kneecap Intro 1138.

NYC DOT: "While every modern city in the world can do this, we simply can't because it is impossible."

Really shameful shilling against safety by our DOT. These staffers should be ashamed.

Blocked hydrants are a major problem on NYC's streets, with the FDNY having gone as far as blaming the phenomenon for the recent death of a man in Brooklyn. So why does the DOT see hydrant zones as a suitable stand-in for universal daylighting?

Sign up to testify in support of Intro 1138 (universal daylighting) at Monday's City Council hearing here: council.nyc.gov/testify/ Select "Mon, April 21, 2025 @ 10:00 AM - Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure" for the meeting. You're probably testifying for "self"! See you there!

"It’s possible DOT is daunted by such a large city-wide policy change. ... universal daylighting represents a considerable shift. However, as leading street safety experts have said, this change makes it easier to improve safety." new from @ammorano.bsky.social: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/04/18/o...

To kick off our Car-Free Earth Day programming, we are organizing a community cleanup! We will start at Underhill Plaza on Saturday, April 26 at 10am, and spread out over the neighborhood. We will provide trash bags and gloves. Feel free to bring your own trash picker, broom, or other tools.

As the hearing for @cmjuliewon.bsky.social's Intro 1138 approaches, I'm reflecting on why street safety matters. Like too many NYers, I have a parent who was seriously injured in a crash — a crash that could've been prevented with just a little effort. We need universal daylighting in NYC!

We're getting ready for Monday's City Council hearing on universal daylighting! ✅ Signs made ✅ Testimony prepared @cmjuliewon.bsky.social Intro 1138 will make our streets safer, and we need your help to pass it...

We are exactly one week out from the City Council hearing for CM Won's universal daylighting bill, Intro 1138! I'm proud that my Council Member, CM Rita Joseph, is co-sponsoring this important bill. Council District 40 and the entire city need universal daylighting!

We're just a week away from @council.nyc.gov's hearing on Intro 1138 to make universal daylighting the law in NYC. Thank you council member @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social for sponsoring this bill — NYC needs universal daylighting!

A bike ride with Brad Lander is in the books, and that can mean only one thing: The Dave Colon Open Challenge is officially live. Mayoral candidates, if you want some, come get some

The hearing for @cmjuliewon.bsky.social's Intro 1138 to make universal daylighting the law in NYC is one week away! I'm thrilled that my representative CM Hudson sponsors this bill — and I look forward to seeing her fight to get it across the finish line. NYC needs universal daylighting!

I mentioned this is Stephen's replies, but the reasoning is the parochial nature of NYC politics and the top-down control the mayor exerts over the bureaucracy. DOT has a plan to redesign Grand Army Plaza while making many pedestrian-focused changes to Vanderbilt permanent.

Big huge streets news: The federal pandemic relief money that funded open streets has run out, and it is unclear if City Hall is going to replace it in the upcoming budget nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/04/03/o...

The $5M a year needed to support Open Streets, play streets, free on-street programs, bike boulevards and generally high quality public spaces is peanuts in the scope of the City budget — yet Mayor Adams is refusing to provide this funding. Shame on you! nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/04/03/o...

Brooklyn! If you support open streets and want to see them continue and even expand, please fill out this survey about the one on 5th Ave. Thank you!

“We don’t need more space for pedestrians - Prospect Park is RIGHT THERE!”

This was an inevitability, not an accident.

Hey New York Times and Mayor Adams: in what world is a speeding driver with a suspended license killing three people an ACCIDENT? It's not an "accident," it's a result of terrible choices made by her and the political system that allows her to keep driving: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/n...

@nyc-dot.bsky.social must commit to true streetscape improvements on Atlantic Ave as @chiosse.bsky.social and CM Hudson insisted at this week's Council hearing! @sophlebo.bsky.social continues her great coverage of AAMUP in @nyc.streetsblog.org: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/03/28/c...

It is not an exaggeration that the city’s open street program is on the brink. We need to invest more in this if it’s going to survive, let alone flourish and grow: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/03/14/o...

I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.

A clarifying update: Vanderbilt Open Streets will be one day PER WEEK (instead of 2.5 days per week) this year and only for a few months, ending in September this year. The fake restaurant owned by people with significant real estate holdings throughout Brooklyn hoodwinked a bunch of people.

Eric Adams is using the last months of his dying mayoralty to repeat debunked lies circulating in the truly depraved depths of right wing media. Telling that these pro car groups of people who hate NYC and urban life still think he’s useful.

The pro-pedestrian death group responsible for Vanderbilt Open Streets being only one day this year and who continue to agitate against a modest redesign of Underhill finally had their secret meeting with Eric Adams, if you’d like to know the quality of people still keeping company with Adams.

ICYMI, the Vanderbilt Open Street will only run on Saturdays this year. This is a completely volunteer-led program, and needless to say, it is a challenge to run. We need your help to ensure the program is the best it can be this year and is sustainable for years to come. Links below!

Mayor Adams's famous unreleased door-to-door survey about the Underhill Avenue bike boulevard found overwhelming support for the traffic redesign, which explains why the mayor wasn't eager to share the results!

And if this upsets you/you want more open streets in your life, please make a contribution. Under a new mayor, hopefully a lot of these problems will be solved, but we need to get there first: www.gofundme.com/f/vanderbilt...

Under @mayor.nyc.gov programs like open streets that actually open public space to the public have been getting chipped away at every year. If we don’t invest in these programs, they won’t survive: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/28/v...

We’re thrilled that Vanderbilt Open Street will be back for 2025! Unfortunately, we've had to make some adjustments this year, and the season will run on an abbreviated schedule: Saturdays only from 12pm-10pm from May through September. Follow us here for updates and info about the program!

Sadly, opponents still have Underhill in their sites and are pushing the community board to ask for its removal. Please take a minute to fill out this survey to express you support: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...