Few better feelings on a Friday evening in the spring

Fantastic, and incredible to remember how much worse it was before the 2010 fix up.

Raised & parking protected.

Please come out to upcoming Grand Army Plaza workshops later this month. Learn more here: www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm...

Current design showing four lanes of traffic splitting the Grand Army Plaza arch from Prospect Park.

The future design showing a unified pedestrian space and cycling upgrades between Prospect Park and the arch in Grand Army Plaza.

The current (L) and future (R) designs for Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn.

Let’s go! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/n...

Can This Chaotic Brooklyn Plaza Be Car-Free? Mamdani Says Yes.

On it. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/n...

Faster buses are coming to Flatbush Avenue! The Mamdani administration announced today construction will resume at the end of the month to deliver protected, center-running bus lanes from Livingston Street to Grand Army Plaza. This will be a transformative upgrade for the corridor.

Today is Trans Day of Visibility. Trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people have always been here — from the hijra of India to the Diné nádleehi to the leaders who built the modern LGBTQIA+ movement here in New York. Your existence is not up for debate. Your lives are not a political issue. We're fighting for a city where every trans New Yorker can live openly, safely, and with joy.

This is our 2017 NYC DOT softball championship hat. It’s a great honor.

Ernie Anastos, New York’s Everyman Newscaster, Dies at 82

Ernie Anastos gets a NYT sendoff. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/n...

Hudson Street storefront vacancies plunge following $13M streetscape revamp Last year, the neighborhood’s storefront vacancy rate dropped to 17.2%, down nearly 10% from the 26.9% it was at a decade ago.

Bike lanes and public seating are good for business! It's common sense: when you create streets that are calm and welcoming, people like to spend time there.
www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...

For Mahmoud Khalll, this past year has been marked by profound hardship-and by profound courage. A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine. And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child. Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together. Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.

In a dining room, five people eat, chat and smile around a table of food.

Iftar, Day 19

The 14th Street busway has been an unmitigated success: bus speeds + ridership are 📈, crashes are 📉. But the street itself hasn't changed much. NYC DOT is planning world-class upgrades supporting fast buses & public spaces. Weigh in online or in person, 3/25. More here: www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm...

Fixed today

A very large Italian bread sits sheathed in a white paper bag atop a basket of a mountain bike leaning up against a storefront.

“XL Italian bread,” MTB for scale.

Quality over quantity.

NYC looked good today in white and blue.

Spent my whole life thinking “fakakta” was actually Italian American slang.

Just needlessly hostile framing for a study that DOT worked on with MIT.

NYC DOT has brought pedestrian fatalities to their lowest levels. We are aware that our pedestrian model is based on a simple formula, which is why the agency worked with MIT on this study. We'll be continuing to work with MIT to build a more comprehensive model for predicting pedestrian activity.

Says a lot about society

They’re free! They’re circulated in some bike shops and at larger group rides.

Front-page news.

Congestion Pricing’s Unexpected Winners: Suburban Drivers NYC’s controversial toll program hasn’t just sped up trips inside Manhattan, a new paper finds. It’s easing traffic in outer boroughs and neighboring counties.

A strange but true finding about NYC congestion pricing:

Drivers’ time savings have overwhelmingly gone to those traveling *outside* the toll zone (i.e., driving from Brooklyn to Queens or within NJ) – not those headed into Manhattan.

Me, in Bloomberg 🧵

JCD has cleared 96% of sheltered stops as of this morning. They will keep going back to make sure these stops remain cleared.

A look at the K Bridge bike/ped path if you’re thinking about 🚲🚶🏼‍♂️

This is a DSNY-plowed segment of the greenway.

DSNY 🙌

What bliss, what joy @nycsanitation.bsky.social #bikenyc