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Reporter @StreetsblogNYC . Previously covered transit @amNewYork and many things @BrooklynPaper .

New York, NY
Joined September 2016
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@kduggan16
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17 days
"I'd say there's a 100% correlation between people who are afraid of taking the subway and people who don't take it often."
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18 days
Haha the London Sunday Times had someone ride the NYC subway for 24 hours to assess how dangerous it is.
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Cobble Hill
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1 year
Car-free Sunday on Fifth Ave going strong on week three
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3 months
INBOX: City of Hoboken reaches new Vision Zero milestone: seven consecutive years without a traffic death
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2 years
NEW: The Red Hook nativity scene cats are back
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1 year
“There are now 1,500 miles of bike lanes. 400,000 people ride a bike in New York City daily, triple the number of vehicles that use the BQE”
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1 year
DSNY collects its first bags of residential garbage from curbside containers as part of a pilot program that kicks off today on W45th between 9th and 10th
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8 months
We’re live from West Harlem where DSNY is piloting automated and containerized garbage collection
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3 months
It’s 53 degrees in early February, but next year this setup won’t be allowed and will have to make way for car parking
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2 months
The one piece of info most riders want — when’s my next train — is inexplicably never on some of these
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3 years
Here’s the first LIRR test train carrying passengers, including @GovKathyHochul , into Grand Central Terminal’s East Side Access this morning
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11 months
Greenpointers march near an intersection where a 73-year-old cyclist was recently fatally hit by an SUV driver. It’s on what used to be the Driggs Ave Open Street but that was dismantled by opponents two years ago. More here:
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8 months
Activists opposed to the McGuinness redesign have instituted an impromptu road diet by parking their cars in the outer lane. Traffic is still moving nevertheless
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2 years
"No I'm not," Hochul says when asked about whether she'll reconsider congestion pricing, at an unrelated press conference on Long Island. "We're not going backwards," she adds
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2 years
The steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall, where safe street advocates have set up pots with a label for each New Yorker killed by drivers since Mayor Bill de Blasio’s took office in 2014. It’s for an event marking the World Day of Remembrance, commemorating traffic victims
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3 years
Five boro bike tour heading down the Carroll Gardens BQE trench
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3 years
NEWS: After nearly 3 years at @brooklynpaper I am moving to @amNewYork to cover transit and state government. Brooklyn Paper was my first job in the US and its journalists made me the reporter I am today. While the new beat is intimidating, I can't wait. Oh, and send tips!
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NEW: Crashes on the BQE's triple-cantilever section dropped after de Blasio nixed a lane in each direction. Collisions continued to decrease there through 2022, even as they began to tick back up elsewhere on the BQE
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11 months
NY State Dems move to deny NYC the right to set its own speed limits at 20 mph
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CM Jen Gutiérrez
11 months
Unbelievable. I'm incredibly disappointed that the State Assembly ( @NYSA_Majority ) is refusing to bring #SammysLaw up for a vote after the @NYCCouncil *and* @NYCMayor showed our support for the law through a super majority. Families across the city deserve this vote.
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This outdoor dining shed has turned into covered bike parking for the restaurant’s delivery workers. Next winter it’ll legally have to revert to space for max two cars under the Council’s permanent outdoor dining program
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5 months
DOT will daylight 1,000 intersections a year, in addition to 1,000 other intersections safety redesigns, DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez announces at City Hall this morning
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1 year
A hit-and-run driver fatally struck a teenage cyclist in Queens last night — severing his electric Citi Bike virtually in half. The death marks the 11th person killed on a bike in NYC so far this year
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1 year
Mayor Adams is about to announce a Bronx expansion of the Harlem River Greenway at the High Bridge this morning
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1 year
NEW: Restaurateurs, advocates beg Council to keep all-year roadside dining. "If we have to take it down in the winter, there’s no putting that stuff back up," one restaurant owner told me. "I think that’s just a way for them to get rid of it."
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2 years
Still taken aback by how big these guys are
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1 year
We’re gonna need another lane
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5 months
City officials are about to open the new East River Greenway section between 53rd-61st streets
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No cars means you can hear the birds on Eastern Parkway
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3 years
The affected vendor, Diana Hernandez, estimates she lost $10,000-worth of produce from the crackdown last week
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2 years
Professional news: Today was my last day at @amNewYork . I have loved covering transit over the last year and change and I can’t wait to continue reporting on this great town. I will have more news to share soon, but for now, I will try to take a bit of a Twitter break!
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3 months
NEW: Brooklyn accessibility advocates have for years tried to keep an Access-A-Ride spot outside their office clear of placard/cop cars. However, even the mayor's own Office for People with Disabilities can't keep the spots outside *its own building* clear
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1 year
A presidential indictment is all it took to get rid of cars parked on the Centre Street bike lane
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Morgan McKay
1 year
The scene right now outside Manhattan Criminal Court - throngs of media and some Trump supporters. Former President Donald Trump should be arriving in the next few hours
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8 months
"Out of the 100 largest US metropolitan statistical areas, New York City led the pack with 97% growth in bike trips from 2019 to 2022, reflecting a lasting shift towards cycling by commuters who previously relied on subways" via @citylab
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Streetsblog New York
1 year
New from @Julcuba : @BAM_Brooklyn has come out against a city plan to put a protected bike lane outside outside its campus on Ashland Place.
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2 years
Adams also told me at the gaggle in Brooklyn just now that he wants his upcoming nominees for the MTA board to be riders of the system, not car commuters
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1 year
Bring it back
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Cool Bike Art
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DeKalb Avenue trolley, Brooklyn, 1898
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2 years
SCOOP: Larry Schwartz is officially off the MTA board. He was a no-show during the Monday committee meetings and will not be at tomorrow's full board. Story TK
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8 months
Protestors with Extinction Rebellion are picketing the W. 30th St “V.I.P. Heliport”, calling for an end to luxury emissions
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3 months
None of the sidewalks are cleared
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Mayor Eric Adams
3 months
On the ground in Queens keeping an eye on snow removal operations. @NYCSanitation plows are hitting the streets. If you don’t need to travel, stay off the roads and help "New York’s Strongest" get us through this storm.
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3 years
Re Congestion Pricing, Hochul wants to see "how do we reduce the timeframe"
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3 years
Sarah Meyer, chief customer officer at NYC Transit, asks MTA PD, NYPD to *please* wear their mask in the subways
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2 years
The Gowanus claimed a small boat yesterday evening
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1 year
NEW: The city didn’t adopt key recommendations by its own appointed experts to curb congestion near the BQE after reducing it from six to four lanes — and the Adams administration is now using that same congestion to justify rebuilding a wider highway
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3 months
At a press conference for congestion pricing at Smith/9th station, and cops and news cars are blocking the bike lane and bus stop
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2 months
Even the corners that get some physical daylighting are no match for cops and court officials parking illegally downtown
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3 years
Sara Clugage, of Brooklyn, who got a car during the pandemic due to an injury wants to be charged so that MTA can build more elevators and increase service and bring back former riders like herself. "Please take my money," she says
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9 months
MTA's OMNY tap system is finally available on the Roosevelt Island Tram. Next up is the AirTrain, says MTA chief Janno Lieber
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5 years
Police released the 18-year-old driver behind the deadly crash in Midwood that killed 52-year-old Park Slope cyclist Jose Alzorriz on Sunday without pressing charges or even giving him a summons, despite running a red light at high speed. Story to come.
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3 years
Ghost strollers line City Hall after the deadly crash that killed a 3-month old baby and injured her mom critically in Brooklyn over the weekend
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3 years
Didn’t take long for the new Amazon facility in Red Hook to get tagged
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3 years
Bk dems boss deleting her twitter and the @bkdems going private. Probably nothing
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3 months
New garbage truck
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2 years
SCOOP: The MTA will phase in reopening its subway station bathrooms in January after shuttering the facilities for nearly three years amid the pandemic
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WORLD EXCLU: @kduggan16 breaks the news today that @MTA is going to start reopening subway bathrooms in January, starting with eight:
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3 years
I think the Eastern Parkway ATV scene survived de Blasio’s bulldozer presser pretty wrll
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2 months
The Park Row bike lane has been clear of NYPD cars all day today following our story earlier, and as the city is set to present its plans for the corridor at a meeting next door tonight. Will be interesting to see if it remains free of the illegal parking
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3 years
It seems to me that most people, regardless of their mental wellbeing, would rather use a toilet than a train or elevator
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3 years
But Feinberg claims NYCT doesn’t see a correlation between soiled train cars/elevators and whether restrooms being open at station. "It tends to be mental illness issue,” she says
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2 months
Weep for the bus lane and bus stops on Broadway just steps from City Hall. Every parked car has a government placard or paraphernalia in the dash
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7 months
How many times is this exact spot gonna flood without the city fixing it?
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New York City emergency officials have issued a travel advisory as heavy rain and flooding hits
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2 months
Port Authority approves a $160m street connection to EWR's rail and AirTrain station, offering a direct link for Newark and Elizabeth residents to Amtrak/NJ Transit/AirTrain. A commute to NY Penn will take just seven minutes instead of the 40 minutes by bus today
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3 years
BREAKING: MTA unveils the proposed development to replace its Greenpoint warehouse at 40 Quay Street. Its dubbed Monitor Point and have nearly 900 apartments and a museum dedicated to the Monitor Civil War-era ship. Story TK
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2 years
MTA found 37 subway stations that don’t have bike parking nearby and they’re partnering with the city to install bike racks at all those stations
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2 years
@ydanis The incoming commish commits to replacing 50% of plastic-protected bike lanes with sturdier structures within first 100 days
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5 months
City Hall giving real Brooklyn Borough Hall vibes today
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8 months
Schools in the area also have recycling and compost bins
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2 years
This individual is still on the loose, this person is dangerous, says Governor Kathy Hochul. This is an active shooter situation right now in the City of New York, she adds.
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8 months
There are 17 pf the containers on this block, in pods of 2-4 bins taking up what used to be about 1-2 parking spots a pod
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5 months
New Midtown Greenway looking nice
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New OMNY vending machines on display at MTA HQ this morning
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2 years
New York City is back: Jay Street busway edition
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9 months
At a public hearing about outdoor dining this morning, Jim Morrison, owner of the Exley in Brooklyn (not the Doors frontman), says many biz can’t afford rebuilding roadside dining each year, tells the mayor he would be willing to pay higher fees to keep his shed up year-round
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2 years
Quite the response from @TishJames to Cuomo's Brooklyn church speech
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3 years
Here's some of the new marketing campaigns MTA is launching to get people back on mass transit
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1 year
At $12 billion spent on Grand Central Madison, that's about $231,000 per rider
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1 year
Weekday ridership at Grand Central Madison is now at about 52,000, according to MTA officials. LIRR ridership to Manhattan still split roughly 66-34 percent between Penn Station and GCM
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3 years
When's the last time a president visited Queens?
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1 year
The MTA is focusing on improving its 29 worst-performing routes with high ridership. These make up 10% of routes but account for one fifth of bus ridership
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2 months
Just 1,500 subway and 700 bus workers out of 40k employees commute into the tolling zone — just 5.5% of the workforce, all of whom can ride transit for free, according to the MTA. And only a tiny fraction of those workers commute by car -- via @dahvnyc
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Doesn't he raise another country's flag in Bowling Green like every other week?
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Jeff Coltin
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“It’s despicable that schools would allow another country’s flag to fly in our country,” Mayor Adams says - a shocking message from someone who raises other country’s flags over Bowling Green to honor their people ALL THE TIME.
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Happy five-year anniversary to my arrival in the US. Since I got off that J train with a suitcase and without a job it’s been a true privilege and pleasure to live here and report for this city
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8 months
BREAKING: The Adams administration will conduct more "analysis" before finalizing its redesign of McGuinness Boulevard, according to a late Friday announcement. This latest wrinkle once again calls into question the mayor's plans for the deadly corridor
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9 months
NYC Transit prez Rich Davey says congestion pricing is about “faster buses, cleaner air, safer streets. If you’re against that I don’t know what to tell ya”
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2 months
Top Google review of the Robert Moses Building on Randall's Island
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4 months
DOT released its final rule for the bridge vending ban today, taking effect immediately and without lead-in time due to "the threat presented by the presence of uncontrolled vendors on the pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge."
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3 years
The Brooklyn Eagle barely staffs its newsroom but still has the money for this
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8 months
"The mayor's realized that supporting this won't help his cause, because the people who want this aren't necessarily his supporters and backers, whereas the people who don't want this are the people who are going to finance his reelection."
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Kevin Duggan
3 years
Looks like MTA will open secure bike parking at Grand Central Terminal. @ooneepod is that you?
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11 months
Protesters outside demand to be let in
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11 months
Supporters of the city’s McGuinness Boulevard redesign are rallying at the intersection where Matthew Jensen was killed by a hit-and-run driver two years ago
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9 months
At a rally for congestion pricing at City Hall, Fordham senior Abby calls on Mayor Adams to implement the bus lane to speed up her commute
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Kevin Duggan
2 years
At this rate, all 40,000 intersections in the city would be 40-60% safer for older residents within 800 years, but Commissioner Rodriguez countered that this approach was driven by “data”
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Kevin Duggan
2 years
DOT will install 50 turn calming treatments a year near areas with many older adults, to address the disproportionate traffic deaths of senior citizens, commissioner @ydanis announces outside a Washington Heights senior center
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Kevin Duggan
2 years
. @VendorPower responds to Mayor Adams's remarks, saying arrested subway fruit vendor Maria actually has a license to sell and has passed Health Dept. courses, but can't get a permit to hawk the goods because those have been capped in the city for decades
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