"In two months, they had frozen my account five or six times, so I knew they could freeze my account. So I said, 'OK, I’ll do some nearby deliveries, I couldn’t bike with it, so I had to walk it slowly on Third Avenue. Every time I tried to ride, I would slide and fall. I fell two or three times."
NEW: HungryPanda delivery workers share how the company hires dispatchers to pressure them into working during extreme and dangerous weather.
"We believe he's going to do the best things ... not only for delivery workers, but for all New Yorkers."
@sophlebo.bsky.social spoke to the delivery workers who broke their fast with @mayor.nyc.gov on Monday night. youtube.com/shorts/I2OcK...
Council Member Joann Ariola is holding an oversight hearing on the impact of her legislation requiring DOT to notify not only FDNY HQ but also the local firehouses for any street redesign/open street that is more than three blocks long
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New!!! The New York Cycle Club sued the city over the 15 mile per hour Central Park speed limit.
One Relay worker called the demise of Relay as "another sign of late-stage capitalism."
"Make as much money abusing labor for the sake of ‘disrupting’ until there's oversight stopping you then move on to the next unregulated loophole to screw over working class people,” said the worker Kae Cook.
NEW: Relay, a business to business delivery app, is shutting down operations in NYC, leaving all its workers without jobs starting April 1.
Catch @sophlebo.bsky.social and Neile Weissman break down the Central Park 15mph speed limit.
www.wnyc.org/story/slowin...
Listen to @sophlebo.bsky.social and Neile Weissman discuss the Central Park 15mph speed limit on the Brian Lehrer Show: www.wnyc.org
"Our streets are a public good, and when these app companies are using streets as a means to generate billions of dollars in profits ... I do think they certainly have a shared responsibility to make sure that the streets are safe," said Sam Levine, DCWP commissioner.
"These app companies are using streets as a means to generate ... profits, I think they certainly have a shared responsibility to make sure that the streets are safe and that they're not putting expectations on deliveristas that are forcing them to choose between their safety and their livelihood."
The NYPD continues to give criminal summonses to cyclists instead of regular traffic tickets and to set up stings at Delancey and Suffolk Street.
Mayor Mamdani and the City Council are blaming each other for failing to implement a 2024 state law that gave the city the power to lower speed limits — and in doing so are following a pattern of inaction set by their predecessors.
Don't forget this great job at Streetsblog: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Lyft is responsible for clearing snow from Citi Bike's infrastructure, according to its contract with the city. A city official said they were stunned that Lyft was doing such a bad job.
NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin says on WNYC this morning that there are "certain blocks that have over-saturation" of outdoor dining structures, and that she will meet with community groups next week to address those concerns.
Citi Bike sending "swag" to "winter warriors" as frustration mounts over unusable bikes.
New: An e-bike subsidy program for low income New Yorkers in transit-starved areas was denied state funding for implementation.
Stuff like fighting crash victims instead of insurance companies is why Kathy Hochul will never enter Transit Valhalla, as this great explainer from @kevinduggan.bsky.social shows nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/02/02/t...
New York's hottest club is the Bushwick Citi Bike Igloo
The administration is announcing this today at a food hall in Long Island City!
A new sociological study from Hunter College researchers found that delivery workers are more likely to ride safely, and that protected bike lanes make all cyclists more rule-abiding.
A Bushwick community board voted to call out the NYPD's ongoing criminal summons policy for cyclists — but now the board's longtime chair wants to toss the resolution for procedural reasons, but also slammed its supporters as newcomers who don't represent "the community."
In the aftermath of a winter storm that belted New York City with more than 10 inches of snow, officials said hundreds of bus shelters and stops were still snowed in, forcing commuters to scale slushy mounds Monday before going on their way.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/26/b...
New York has just 69 so-called "school streets," but Mayor Mamdani said on the campaign trail he wanted to close hundreds of streets to cars outside of school buildings citywide by changing the current program into an "opt-out" model.
The delivery people of NYC get the next cover of the New Yorker with cover art by Peter de Sève, “New York’s Finest”
Snow is nature's urban planner: It can show us what parts of the roadway drivers don't use — and what can be reclaimed for pedestrians.
Post your photos and videos of all the #sneckdowns you see and tag us and @mayor.nyc.gov so today's winter wonderland can inspire better streets year-round!
One state lawmaker suggested that in her district, more people are struck by e-bike riders than by car drivers. But according to crash data, there were just 24 involving e-bikes in her district in 2025 — meanwhile, there were 1,132 involving cars, trucks, SUVs and vans.
