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Traffic on Third Avenue in Manhattan.

Gridlock alert: UN General Assembly starts next week. Here’s how to commute in the midst of heavy traffic

Posted on September 16, 2025

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Opinion

Op-Ed | Cut-through traffic is clogging residential streets; here’s what we can do about it

Posted on September 3, 2025

an intersection in Queens during the day

E-bike rider from Queens fatally struck in collision involving SUV

Posted on August 3, 2025

An express bus operating on a rainy street on Staten Island

MTA touts big congestion pricing benefits for Staten Island bus riders

Posted on July 28, 2025

child holding sign at street safety rally

Brooklyn Paper

After fatal hit-and-run, local pols and street safety advocates slam delay of Third Avenue safety plan

a parked moped on a NYC street

NYC moped deaths spike, e-bike collisions continue upward trend, NYPD stats show

Posted on July 23, 2025

Cars pass under the toll gantries at the Manhattan Bridge amid congestion pricing in New York on Jan. 7, 2025.

Congestion Pricing

Real road relief: Latest congestion pricing research shows fewer traffic jams and delays across NYC metro area

Posted on June 18, 2025

City improves safety at over 1,000 intersections in 2022

‘Daylighting’ savings time in NYC: DOT to redesign intersections to limit vehicle parking and improve cyclist safety

Posted on June 11, 2025

An express bus operating on a rainy street on Staten Island

Staten Island commuters endure ‘painful’ waits, crowded express buses after depot closure

Posted on May 14, 2025

Uber and Lyft drivers in Lower Manhattan.

NYC taxi commission and drivers’ union reach agreement on ride-share permitting and electric vehicles

Posted on April 24, 2025

Congestion pricing toll gantries Williamsburg Bridge

MTA, feds reach compromise to keep congestion pricing in NYC going through October

Posted on April 8, 2025

Buses going by shelter on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn

No easy ride: Brooklyn commuters say now is the time to move forward with a plan to improve Flatbush Avenue bus speed

Posted on March 26, 2025

slow zone speed limit in dumbo

Brooklyn Paper

Speed limit in Dumbo to be lowered to 20 mph as nabe becomes Brooklyn’s first ‘Regional Slow Zone’

people sitting at a table looking at papers regarding the Cross Bronx Expressway

Transit officials complete federally funded study on Cross Bronx Expressway redesign

Posted on March 10, 2025

three people outside a house on Staten Island

Staten Island residents rally against speed cameras as street safety program faces reauthorization in Albany

Posted on March 2, 2025

MTA subway riders depart train

Congestion pricing: New Yorkers react to Trump’s move to end congestion pricing

Posted on February 19, 2025

People walking through a snowy Times Square

Midtown Manhattan

Bright highlights: Broadway seeing more foot traffic, bigger audiences thus far in congestion pricing era

Posted on February 19, 2025

Cars exiting the Manhattan Bridge amid congestion pricing in New York on Jan. 7, 2025.

Congestion Pricing: Manhattan traffic ticks upward, but slightly, as program enters second month

Posted on February 18, 2025

Traffic on Manhattan's 5th Avenue on Dec. 8, 2024.

Report: Speed cameras in NYC cut major crashes; spark debate as Albany weighs renewal

Posted on January 23, 2025

coney island casino hearing

Brooklyn Paper

Coney Island casino’s future a crapshoot after community board committee votes ‘no’

“It sucks, take them down!” a driver yelled as he passed under the congestion pricing cameras by the Queens Borough bridge.

Upper East Side

Congestion pricing: New Yorkers react to first day of Manhattan tolls with anger, angst and faint hope of change

Posted on January 5, 2025

truck loading and making deliveries in NYC

NYC DOT adds 500 new loading zones for delivery trucks to help curb double parking

Posted on November 25, 2024

mcguinness boulevard

Brooklyn Paper

Work begins on McGuinness Boulevard redesign, ‘substantial completion’ expected by the end of the year

BQE Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

Brooklyn Paper

City to close one lane of Staten Island-bound BQE for next 2 weekends to install weigh-in-motion tech

A sign noting the entrance to the Queens-Midtown Tunnel.

Queens Midtown Tunnel partially reopens after flooding caused by construction accident

Posted on September 4, 2024

sign shows speed limit and warns of traffic camera enforcement in between traffic

Bronx Times

DOT re-launches safe driving campaign at Yankee Stadium

the corner where a sunset park man was struck by a moped rider

Brooklyn Paper

Family seeks justice for Brooklyn man killed by allegedly unlicensed moped rider

A taxi cab

Editorial | Let New York prove whether congestion pricing is right or wrong

Posted on June 17, 2024

motorcycle accident

News

Harley rider killed after colliding with tractor trailer in Bronx hit-and-run

Posted on June 7, 2024

NYPD barnacle placed on windshield of truck

Is the ‘Barnacle’ the NYPD’s answer to stopping parking scofflaws in their tracks?

Posted on April 9, 2024

Brooklyn-Queens Expressway traffic

Brooklyn Paper

Section of Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to close for needed repairs April 13-15

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Brooklyn Paper

Cyclist dies after losing control of e-bike in Brooklyn: NYPD

Brooklyn pols call for backup traffic plan when Verrazzano Bridge closes due to high winds or heavy rain.

Brooklyn Paper

Bay Ridge pols call for help with traffic build-up caused by Verrazzano Bridge closures

Verrazzano Bridge

CAR CITY: MTA and Port Authority data shows record traffic on NYC crossings as congestion pricing nears

Posted on December 28, 2023

Flushing

QNS

Flushing community mourns loss off toddler killed by hit-and-run driver

dump truck in Midwood

Brooklyn Paper

Dump truck driver strikes and kills 77-year-old pedestrian in Midwood

Cops say the school bus driver was attempting to make a turn onto 86th Street in Ozone Park, Queens when they fatally struck Maria Rodriguez in the crosswalk.

Cops cuff school bus driver for fatally striking 73-year-old in Queens

Posted on November 11, 2023

cars and trucks on brooklyn-queens expressway

Brooklyn

Brooklyn-Queens Expressway triple cantilever to partially close for repairs next month

Posted on September 18, 2023

truck after striking woman and child in bath beach

Brooklyn Paper

66-year-old woman dead after she and 2-year-old grandchild hit by truck in Bath Beach: NYPD

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Bronx Times

Bruckner Boulevard, Tremont Avenue see greatest impact from 24/7 speed camera enforcement

Bus traffic

Op-Ed

Op-ed | New York has a problem at the curb. Here’s how we fix it.

Posted on August 23, 2023

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Brooklyn Paper

Relief in Greenpoint as compromise reached on McGuinness Boulevard redesign

NYPD Transportation Bureau Deputy Chief Michael Pilecki

New York

NYPD honcho tells council that it faces obstacles in fight against ‘ghost plates’

Posted on June 27, 2023

Children next to a car walking through pedestrian crossing to the school

Op-Ed

Op-Ed | We must keep NYC kids safe from speeding cars with a statewide passage of Sammy’s Law

Posted on June 26, 2023

The Sheriff’s Office joined the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission, along with several other agencies on April 24 to perform a joint checkpoint operation at the Queens Midtown Tunnel.

Queens

EXCLUSIVE | Sheriff’s Office seizes vehicles at Queens Midtown Tunnel for scofflaw violations

Posted on April 24, 2023

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Traffic deaths underwent a slight decline across the U.S. in 2022 but still a ‘crisis’

Posted on April 22, 2023

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Brooklyn Paper

Driver kills woman crossing Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn Heights

NYPD Police

Queens

Queens traffic agent struck by hit-and-run driver in Forest Hills: NYPD

Posted on March 20, 2023

More from around NYC

Power Women of the Bronx to celebrate trailblazing leaders at Villa Barone

metropolitan park

Metropolitan Park submits supplemental application, forecasts $33B in tax revenue over 30 years

coney island man sentenced

Coney Island man sentenced to prison for 2019 murder of construction worker

"Fight Back" takes place at The LGBT Community Center on Oct. 30 at 7 p.m.

‘Fight Back’ turns theatergoers into 1980s ACT UP activists