Although it’s mostly Dominican folks in Upstate Manhattan — This walkable vitality is my neighborhood Swap sugarcane w seasonal tobacco plants growing in tree wells& three sisters Dominos on the corner, blinged out nails, music on the street, uptown ❤️ Just need some kids playing in hydrants

My bike and transit advocacy apparently needs some work.

The hearings reveal that the mayor's promise to end criminal summonsing against cyclists has not been kept.

New York City's curbside outdoor dining will return to being year-round, Council Speaker Julie Menin announced on Wednesday.

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

If you have been thinking about joining your Community Board, now is the moment. Deadlines are coming up, and we pulled key reminders in this week’s newsletter. Get the latest updates: www.beta.nyc/newsletter-2...

🥶STAY WARM, NYC!🥶 NYC Emergency Management has issued an Extreme Cold Warning, in effect now through 1PM Sunday. Real-feel temperatures are already below zero and wind chills will likely hit -20° to -30° tonight. Stay inside if you can, check on your neighbors, and bundle up if you must go out.

Today in Richmond Hill, 75+ neighbors showed up to march and rally for a permanently car-free Freedom Dr. in Forest Park. Locals families, kids, older adults, runners, cyclists, and disability justice leaders shared why they need people-first park roads. @ny4p.bsky.social was happy to support.

Wow. While neighbors marched for safety, CM Joann Ariola chose to drive on Freedom Dr through the rally. Her message to families in the area and kids who attend school 2 blocks away? Their safety matters less than a 0.3 mile shortcut for a few. 🎥: Safer Streets Richmond Hilll

If you know this area— Kingsbridge near the proposed start of a new subway 12 line - you’ve seen the endless lines of people queuing up for the Bx9 and Bx12 bus. It has to traverse clogged streets with cars making it go walking speed or slower. 🙏 Fast transit Bus speed visualizer from @jehiah.cz

Hard to fathom why new DOT leadership isn't weeding out these regressive Adams-era decisions

Protesters arrested after staging Columbia 'sanctuary campus' against ICE

Columbia is a community, but it is failing to ensure its students and neighbors feel safe. I refuse to accept a university that creates a climate of fear. It is time to protect our international students. ICE out of Columbia. ICE out of our homes.

Low Traffic Neighborhoods! Low Traffic Neighborhoods! All in one mega blog post is a huge resource containing the most popular films, photos, diagrams & links on LTN's. Bookmark. Share. Link to it. Host a screening. Advocate. @talyaschwartz.bsky.social @solomonge.bsky.social @openplans.org

My lukewarm take is that anyone who was in the Epstein Files should be drummed out of polite society.

Our office has clients whose injuries were so severe that their treatment dramatically exceeded the $50k no fault limit, and were forced to go into medical debt to treat themselves. As @kevinduggan.bsky.social points out, had that amount tracked inflation, it'd now be $329k.

Our A Better Billion report is up on our site. It’s a great site. @27a01.bsky.social, @eensari.bsky.social, @vanshnookenraggen.com, and @alonlevy.bsky.social did a great job: transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...

This is interesting news & good argument. I had no idea the Newburgh-Beacon boat had been kiboshed @streetsblognys.bsky.social

On this day in 1653, the town of New Amsterdam planted the seeds for our legislative body— and thus, the Council was born. 🥳 373 years young and still showing up for New Yorkers every day. Happy birthday to us!

To the cranks & ignorant electeds who claim that #sneckdowns are evidence of nothing...check out this MASSIVE truck easily and carefully make this turn 4 days after 🌨️❄️ stopped. We could easily put 5-foot curb extensions/ #daylighting to make this street safer.… #Urbanism @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Bx12 bus is THE vital east west link for The Bronx-its slow. ESP at its western terminus in Inwood—so half Bx12 (FordhamRd/207st) Buses don’t connect thus don’t link the 1/A to the Bronx. Bx9 (KingsbridgeRd/225st) are slow& over crowded and@end at GrandConcourse- A subway expansion here would be 🧑‍🍳💋

When it’s 2026 and you still have to fight for basic rights at work. #GroundhogDay

Congratulations @fpappenberger.bsky.social!!!

NASA has a 24 hour live stream setup for the Artemis II launch site.

Getting east to west in The Bronx is hard. Really there is only Fordham road that goes through (and the highway). And the legit BIG hills make it a tough place to bike east west as well. Such a line would be transformative

Citylab and @benschneider.bsky.social covered A Better Billion, too. They also had the wisdom to include the killer gif @27a01.bsky.social made showing how the system expands over time. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

More great video from yesterday’s unity ride in Minneapolis, from Recovery Bike Shop. This one has a clip of our city council president, @elliottpayne.org , corking an intersection to keep other riders safe. Minneapolis is a special place. 🚲 ❤️

The Citi Bike rate is too damn high.

For anyone interested in digging through the new Epstein Files release our Discord community are going through the files at the moment Thread - discord.com/channels/709... Invite link for newbies - discord.com/invite/belli...

Indeed it is!

These MN peeps peddle with their hearts on their ‘vests’. And sometimes their literal 3 meter realizations.

Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks. They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

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Some photos from the Chicago memorial ride for Alex Pretti, where lots of folks came out in solidarity with similar rides across the country. Organized by @babski.bsky.social and @bikegridnow.org, with remarks from Kyle Lucas from @betterstreetschicago.org

Alex Pretti ride, Milwaukee I've been riding a bike since I was 5 (almost 40 years). I've been on more group rides than I can count. This is the biggest group ride I've ever participated in. If you said it was 1000 people, I'd believe you.

#nyc ❤️ Minnesota = 🇺🇸

Didn’t get great pics bc I can’t bike with one hand but the NYC ride for Alex Pretti was huge—this is the back! My favorite part was biking through another protest and all of us cheering for each other

If you live in New York and you see someone in a camp, on a sidewalk, under an underpass, in a subway station: Call 311, and you'll likely be referred to 911 because of the temps outside. Get them help. This weather is dangerous. By law*, the city will provide them with a bed inside. *Settlements

💚Mpls

Justice for Alex Pretti. ICE off our streets. #criticalmass 📍 Boston, MA

I ❤️ Minneapolis This ride was incredible, especially our interactions with folks at the memorials and with neighbors cheering on from their windows/porches. ICE out, now.

NEWS: @mayor.nyc.gov names @alisterfmartin.bsky.social as the next commissioner of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Martin is an ER doctor known for spearheading a national campaign, "Vot-ER," to register patients to vote. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

College coders built a simple tool for DMV staff and administrators to identify repeat dangerous speeding behavior.

New York joins the nationwide group ride for Alex Pretti.

We've posted the video to YouTube. Thanks @isoclive.bsky.social for the edits and post-production. youtu.be/TjSS_qp1D3Y?...

At the start of the Unity Ride in Minneapolis in memory of Alex Pretti. There are hundreds if not thousands of bikers here ✊🏼

The group bike ride for Alex Pretti is about to depart in Minneapolis, stopping at his memorial, then Renee Good’s, and finishing at the VFW. If you can join, hop on anywhere. It’s a warm 17° & sunny! I’ve never seen this many cyclists for a group ride. ⚡️✊🏽⚡️🚲⚡️✊🏽⚡️ #RIPPretti

Great ride to remember a life stolen to soon. Rest in power, Alex. With @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social and @eschneider.bsky.social .

TODAY. FOLEY SQUARE. 2 P.M.