SPECIAL REPORT: Driven to the Brink
Our reporters examine how E-hail companies upended the NYC taxi business – exacting a rising human and economic toll.
Topic: Transportation
SPECIAL REPORT: Failure to Yield
Four years into Vision Zero, New York City has achieved a historic low in pedestrian traffic deaths. But how many more people will die in crashes that safe-streets advocates argue are preventable?
via Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Delivery Workers Jolted by City’s E-Bike Plan
This city wants to exempt high-end pedal-controlled electric bicycles from its ban on battery-powered two-wheelers – angering delivery workers, whose cheaper models would remain illegal.
via BKLYNER
Lane Switch Plan Sparks Street Fight
A proposal to overhaul 86th Street between Shore Road and 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn's Bay Ridge spurred community ire.
via City Limits
Getting Back to School in the Bronx
Across the borough, cops, parents, merchants and – above all, kids – brace for the inevitable: the end of summer.
via Brooklyn Based
Bike Repair Classes Turn a Corner
Mechanical Gardens‘ W/T/F Bicycle Repair and Maintenance Intensive classes are open to women, trans persons and non-binary individuals.
via Latino USA
LEGO NASA Set Snubs Latina Space Pioneer
The new LEGO Women of NASA sets excludes Ellen Ochoa, the first Latina in space.
Innovation City
From virtual therapy to a green underground lab, New Yorkers are tapping technology and creativity. But change sometimes comes with growing pains.