Few better feelings on a Friday evening in the spring

Fantastic, and incredible to remember how much worse it was before the 2010 fix up.

Please come out to upcoming Grand Army Plaza workshops later this month. Learn more here: www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm...

Let’s go! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/n...

Faster buses are coming to Flatbush Avenue! The Mamdani administration announced today construction will resume at the end of the month to deliver protected, center-running bus lanes from Livingston Street to Grand Army Plaza. This will be a transformative upgrade for the corridor.

This is our 2017 NYC DOT softball championship hat. It’s a great honor.

Ernie Anastos gets a NYT sendoff. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/n...

Bike lanes and public seating are good for business! It's common sense: when you create streets that are calm and welcoming, people like to spend time there. www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...

Iftar, Day 19

The 14th Street busway has been an unmitigated success: bus speeds + ridership are 📈, crashes are 📉. But the street itself hasn't changed much. NYC DOT is planning world-class upgrades supporting fast buses & public spaces. Weigh in online or in person, 3/25. More here: www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm...

“XL Italian bread,” MTB for scale.

Quality over quantity.

NYC looked good today in white and blue.

Spent my whole life thinking “fakakta” was actually Italian American slang.

NYC DOT has brought pedestrian fatalities to their lowest levels. We are aware that our pedestrian model is based on a simple formula, which is why the agency worked with MIT on this study. We'll be continuing to work with MIT to build a more comprehensive model for predicting pedestrian activity.

Says a lot about society

Front-page news.

A strange but true finding about NYC congestion pricing: Drivers’ time savings have overwhelmingly gone to those traveling *outside* the toll zone (i.e., driving from Brooklyn to Queens or within NJ) – not those headed into Manhattan. Me, in Bloomberg 🧵

A look at the K Bridge bike/ped path if you’re thinking about 🚲🚶🏼‍♂️

DSNY 🙌

What bliss, what joy @nycsanitation.bsky.social #bikenyc

Mamdani's DOT commissioner wants NYC to be more like Paris, Bogotá, Tokyo gothamist.com/news/mamdani...

Mamdani Said He’d Make Buses Faster and Free. Now It’s This Guy’s Job to Do It. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/n...

Keith Haring’s massive FDR Drive mural from 1984 is on display now in Chinatown. It was endearing seeing all the tags made over the work.

Speed governors are part of a true safe systems approach. We’ve seen the most dangerous drivers continue driving—even after licenses are suspended. This tool isn’t focused on punishment, but simply preventing these drivers from speeding in the first place. empire.streetsblog.org/state-of-the...

🎵We are the (NBA Cup) champions, We are the (NBA Cup) champions, ...of the world🎵

Happy snow day from Court Street.

Did just this when I was last in NYC with some conference friends, and it was glorious. Chicago could use these too!

Worth underscoring: DOT expects a level of undercounting at these sensors due to bikes missing them, sensitivity of sensors, or other interferences. All but one location included in the study had smaller levels of undercounting.

Cannot wait to see this work continue down to Grand Army Plaza next year with the block-long, concrete bus boarding islands, which will really make Flatbush feel much calmer and help pedestrians cross more easily.

The Christmas shopping event of the season is over, just like that—but if you missed out, don't worry: The Municipal Archives and Library are rocking all year long.

💎 (via @marinasam.bsky.social)

One cool thing about this bike lane is that it is reducing crossing distance on my corner and making it safer for me to cross Court Street, which I do approximately a million and one times every day.

The new street design for Court Street in Brooklyn, where I live, continues to be finished. Today, painting new lane. It’s GREAT! ✅ no more speeders ✅ car & bike traffic moves smoothly ✅ bikes in lane, not intermixed into cars & vice versa ✅ no double parkers ✅ looks nicer

BEFORE AND AFTER. New York City is taking good streets and making them better.

As part of NYC DOT's quarterly Vision Zero update, we highlighted a few recent street redesigns that brought major safety gains. On Schermerhorn St, pedestrian injuries dropped 31% while bike ridership grew 30%. As we've seen all over, bike lanes make streets safer for pedestrians, too.

Protected bike lane markings are coming in on Court Street. 👍🏻

Starting a weekly boxball training school.

NYC DOT has unveiled a proposal for safety and public space upgrades along Canal Street. See the block-by-block proposal here: www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm... And either come to one of the in-person meetings or fill out the online survey with your feedback.

The Court Street bike lane (being implemented now) plus the greenway over the Gowanus Canal/under the expressway adds a nice protected corridor to Brooklyn's #bikenyc network

Court Street 👀

Dramatically improved, ADA compliant curb and sidewalk upgrades are now open linking DUMBO, and the Sands Street, Jay Street, and Manhattan Bridge PBLs 🚲 👍🏻

"Making speedy deliveries...means workers have to choose between stopping at red lights or making deliveries on time. This dangerous choice is exploitative and forces workers to risk their safety, and everyone on our street, just to earn a living." www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/13/d...

Pro tip for Summer Streets, now running the length of Manhattan, this weekend. hellgatenyc.com/elsa-la-rein...

I’m not sure about this monstrosity but spaghetti pie—or frittata di Spaghetti—is real and a pretty common street food in southern Italy. My mom made it occasionally when I was a kid. It’s great for when you have lots of leftover pasta!

years of going to new york and this week was the first time i got a photo of the brooklyn bridge

amNY can mislead its readers for whatever agenda it may have, but the facts are that the city has experienced a record low number of fatalities through the first half of the year and continues to see downward fatality trends across *every single mode* year to date.

Monday night’s one hour rainfall in NYC ranked 2nd…Only behind Ida. That this happened without a tropical system is significant and shows our new reality. The top 3 wettest one hour rainfalls for NYC in the past 156 years have all happened in the past four years.