As both a pilot and safe streets advocate, the amount of effort put into ensuring the safety of air travel vs car travel is absolutely mind boggling.

Today in Placard Abuse: The 'Lieutenant’s Girlfriend' Who Parks Illegally - Streetsblog New York City Meet a driver who gets the gold medal for placard corruption.

Mayor Mamdani should move parking enforcement back to the Department of Transportation. (Giuliani moved it from DOT to the NYPD in 1996, so it's not as if this is some rule that was handed down from God to Moses.)

New York Public Library lion covered in snow.

If you're cold, they're cold... NYPL edition.

Secretary Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I’m calling on her to resign.

Gregory Bovino must also be fired.

No one, not an ICE agent, not a federal officer, not a president, is above the law.

I know that the November 2025 master plan for the cruise terminal includes installing (and mandating the use of) shore power for docked ships, which should help reduce the pollution a bit. Though I know that compliance with this at the Brooklyn terminal is spotty at best.

Yeah, I'm of a similar opinion, but it does appear that ship has sailed. Though I will note my concerns with the cruise terminal are less about whether or not cruise ships should dock there and more about how it's so hostile for users of the Greenway between 46th and 54th Streets.

I do wonder if the NYC EDC's plan to expand the Manhattan Cruise Terminal to accept even larger cruise ships at 54th Street will result in any new bridge having to be so high that the construction costs will be prohibitive (not to mention a pain to bike over for casual cyclists)

YouGov survey example showing Gwen Stefani with rating options red thumbs down, orange thumbs down, yellow neutral, light green thumbs up, dark green thumbs up, or Not heard of options.

The structure of this survey is they just show you things in a list and you give a thumbs up/down or not heard of answer. Not exactly the most rigorous investigation into people’s opinions of these characters.

Semi-regular reminder that my dad will frequently see Bill Belichick at the Nantucket town dump.

I think I got ~20 anti-Mamdani flyers in the mail just in the past 5 days.

Don't threaten me with a good time, John.

So I found lists of the players who have hit HRs into the River, Cove, and Pool (couldn't find a fountain list). Nobody has hit all three, but 9 people have hit 2 of the 3 and of those 9, 6 have also homered at Kauffman: D. Span, J. Burnitz, J. Pederson, J. Cruz, Jr., P. Goldschmidt, and S. Vogt

I'm not a hockey expert, but leaving Conner McDavid wide open in the high slot seems like a bad idea...

Wanted: A New Flight Plan For The Faa On June 18, Transportation Secretary Federico F. Pena asked Congress to do what critics have demanded for years: end the Federal Aviation Administration's dual--and at times conflicting--missions of p...

lol, going too fast. Here's a gift link (which would have been FAR simpler in retrospect)

Here you go!

Map of Center City Philadelphia with proposed congestion relief zone boundaries of Spring Garden Street to the north and South street to the south, with the Schuykill and Delaware Rivers as boundaries to the west and east, respectively.

Center City Philly is another good option (perhaps between Spring Garden and South Streets) but I worry that the regional rail component of SEPTA's operations isn't robust enough currently to be viable at present (classic chicken-egg problem).

Map of central Boston with proposed options for Congestion Relief Zone boundaries.

Boston is a bit trickier on the southwest side. I'd like to see Back Bay included in the zone, but including the South End is probably not necessary. So there are three options that I see. Dark blue as the most expansive, teal to include Back Bay, and pink as perhaps as phase 1 with room to grow.

For Chicago, I think the logical boundaries would be Roosevelt Road to the south and all of the river crossings to the West and North. I'd keep Lake Shore Drive untolled but if you turn off it anywhere between Roosevelt and the River, you're tolled (akin to the West Side Hwy in NYC).

I've been thinking a lot about what the most-logical next cities would be for congestion-relief pricing and I really think Chicago and Boston are the best options. Both have good metro and regional rail networks, clearly defined CBDs, and logical geographic boundaries.

I do truly think that a lot of this administration's decision-making is grounded in "what would make the Libs most upset."

I deeply, truly, passionately hate the Eagles, so I am choosing this moment to channel my anger at John Mara, Joe Schoen, and the entire NY Giants ownership and management team for squandering our time with Saquon.

Caught the open-gangway C train today. The four high school girls who got on with me are shook.

Er, just Morris (realized right after I sent it that Somerset was in that article)

Do you know if there's a listing of all of the municipalities in NJ somewhere? Would love to look at Morris and Somerset Counties, where I suspect the number of non-compliant towns will exceed 75%

QQ: is there a reason we're not targeting Menin, Ayala, and Salaam? Their districts have extensive transit options and I feel like it would be a great message to say that we have all of the Manhattan reps on board?

Got to pilot a small plane around Manhattan last Thursday night. It was incredible.

Can you spot the train station for a city of 2.3 million people?

Friendly neighborhood (recovering) cybersecurity consultant here: One of the easiest and best things you can do to reduce the risk of identity theft is to put freezes on all four (yes, four--don't forget Innovis) of your credit reports.

It's also worth noting that the security thing is obviously BS. Bloomberg rode the subway every day to city hall. If the billionaire mayor can do it, so can you.

I'm positive the councilmember one is because they don't want to be bugged about random issues by people on the trains.