{"id":232380,"date":"2026-05-15T04:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232380\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T04:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:10:04","slug":"fridays-headlines-lexington-avenue-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232380\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday’s Headlines: Lexington Avenue Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, the Department of Transportation will begin installing bus lane upgrades on Lexington Avenue from E. 60th Street to E. 52nd Street, the Mamdani administration will announce later today, Streetsblog has learned.<\/p>\n

Those eight blocks of existing curbside bus lanes will shift and become an \u201coffset\u201d bus lane under DOT\u2019s redesign plan<\/a>, which was unveiled under the previous mayor last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cOffset bus lanes work because they keep lanes clear and buses moving. This\u00a0is exactly the kind of small-but-mighty-fix that\u00a0makes life better for working people across\u00a0our city,\u201d the mayor said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The corridor carries 71,000 bus trips per day, including local buses and express bus routes from the Bronx and Staten Island. <\/p>\n

DOT made similar changed on Lexington Avenue from E. 96th Street to E. 60th Street back in 2019. The changes sped up buses by 26 percent and cut pedestrian injuries by 35 percent, the agency said.<\/p>\n

\"\"A rendering of DOT\u2019s redesign of the eight-block stretch.<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/p>\n

The clock tolls at midnight for the potential LIRR strike \u2014 and everyone from Montauk to Brooklyn is worried. (The City<\/a>, NY1<\/a>, News 12 Brooklyn<\/a>, ABC7NY<\/a>)<\/p>\n

What does Mayor Mamdani\u2019s mass engagement team mean for City Hall\u2019s relationship with community boards? (Politico<\/a>)<\/p>\n

An FDNY driver struck and injured a cyclist at Myrtle and Franklin avenues in Brooklyn. (Williamsburg 365<\/a>)<\/p>\n

There\u2019s lots of fun stuff happening at the Brooklyn Army Terminal this summer. (Brooklyn Paper<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The New Jersey man who drove a car into Chabad headquarters faces jail time after pleading guilty to damaging religious property. (Brooklyn Eagle<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su is Mamdani\u2019s liaison to big business. (City & State<\/a>)<\/p>\n

City traffic enforcement agents want peace officer status so anyone who assaults them faces stiffer legal penalties. (amNY<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A fire under the East River snarled Amtrak and LIRR service out of Penn Station. (Gothamist<\/a>, Daily News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Parks wants your feedback on potential upgrades to the Tompkins Square Park playground. (EV Grieve<\/a>)<\/p>\n

An MTA rent-a-guard tasked with stopping fare evasion got caught selling swipes for cash at the subway emergency gates. (NY Post<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Everyone\u2019s asking: will the mayor stand up to NYPD? (City & State<\/a>, The Drift<\/a>)<\/p>\n

See it: American TV reporters\u2019 disregard for parking rules met Chinese parking enforcement when Bret Baier\u2019s Fox News crew got a ticket for illegal parking \u201cfor just two minutes\u201d in Beijing:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, the Department of Transportation will begin installing bus lane upgrades on Lexington Avenue from E. 60th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-232380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}