#mayor-adams

#mayor-adams

The Department of Transportaiton announced on Friday that workers will "begin installing" center-running bus lanes on Brooklyn's diagonal spine between Livingston Street and Fourth Avenue - but buses won't start moving faster on the stretch north of Grand Army Plaza until the fall of 2026, more than full four years after the city first did outreach for the project. The full plan which includes pedestrian bump-outs and bus boarding islands will have to wait until the spring, officials said.

"Everything has to be assessed on its merits, and the merit that we are measuring these projects by is whether or not they deliver for working class New Yorkers who are currently taking the slowest buses in the country."

The mayor is expected to veto a Council bill that would expand the restaurant delivery worker minimum wage to grocery delivery workers. This bill aims to achieve the goal championed by the mayor in a 2022 report.

Officials reported an average of 14 illegal guns seized per day over seven months, marking a significant milestone in reducing crime.

"I had a heart attack and a stroke, I'm unable to bike a regular bicycle without having to stop. The Citi Bike electric bikes have been a godsend," Burke told Streetsblog. "I'm probably gonna get an electric bike on my own because I'm not gonna put myself in danger."

The horse they're going to back is Eric Adams," grocery store billionaire Jon Catsimatidis stated, indicating a strategic move by business leaders to unify support against Mamdani.

Advocates are appalled that Mayor Adams, who always calls himself a cyclist, would lean so heavily into the bikelash.

E-bike riders, are people that deliver food to our homes, and they have families as well. ... Had we done that collaboration together, we might have come up with a different solution other than 15 miles [per hour], which I believe is a penalty.

"A lot of our focus on Vision Zero ... enforcement has solely focused on cars, that's been our primary focus, going after the four wheels."

"The first person that brought that to me about ... ICE on Rikers was Councilman Holden," Adams said during his weekly "off-topic" press conference.