The incoming mayor’s anti-crime ideas appear to conflict with a push to cut the jail population, clouding the future of plans to close the troubled complex.
New York’s appeals court shot down a lawsuit from activists opposed to Mayor de Blasio’s plans to demolish East River Park, cover it in about 8 feet of landfill and build a new green space on top of that.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority data released this week show the agency’s buses across the five boroughs averaged a speed of 8 mph last month, down from 8.2 mph in January 2015, the first month the MTA began publishing citywide bus speeds.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to keep the statue in front of the New York Stock Exchange for three more years, however, the future of Fearless Girl is in question as the artist tries to wrangle her work from State Street Global Advisors.