{"id":77629,"date":"2025-12-22T05:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/77629\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T05:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:11:08","slug":"mondays-headlines-turn-spiked-edition-streetsblog-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/77629\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday’s Headlines: Turn-SPIKED! Edition – Streetsblog New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Down goes Murphy!<\/p>\n

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s plans to widen the New Jersey Turnpike died a quiet death on Friday when the outgoing chief executive put the kibosh on plans to add new travel lanes east of Exit 14A.<\/p>\n

Garden State officials still plan to replace and widen the Newark Bay Bridge, but the additional “travel lane in each direction between Interchanges 14A and 14C … will no longer be built,” Murphy’s office said in a stateme<\/a>nt<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Instead, the state will build new ramps connecting Exit 14A to the ports of Bayonne and Jersey City, the release said.<\/p>\n

Local politicians praised the “compromise” move, but highway widening opponents aren’t celebrating: The Turnpike Trap Coalition\u00a0condemned the continued plans to widen the bridge. <\/p>\n

“The increased traffic … will cause even more cars to cut through local Jersey City streets to reach the Holland Tunnel worsening Jersey City\u2019s already bad traffic and air,” the group said in a statement.<\/p>\n

NJ Advance Media had the story<\/a>, which no one else appeared to cover.<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/p>\n

Big ups to our latest round of end-of-year donors: Thanks, Bill! Thanks, Adam! Thanks, Nicolle! Thanks, Isaac! Thanks, Daniel! Thanks Peter! And, without naming names, one of these benefactors (you know who you are) qualified for our special gift this year. Want one?\u00a0You know what to do<\/a>.Among Vital City<\/a>‘s ideas for Mayor Mamdani: “rein in placard abuse” and “curb curbside chaos.”Meanwhile, our editor took it a step further, telling Hell Gate<\/a> that Mamdani should “eliminate placards altogether.”The city did a terrible job clearing ice from bus stops, parks and schools after last week’s tiny little snowstorm. (NY Post<\/a>)Joe Biden’s former (acting) Labor Secretary Julie Su will oversee labor and consumer regulation as the city’s first ever “Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice.” (NY Times<\/a>)An 88-year-old Upper East Sider died two weeks after a driver struck him in Yorkville. (Upper East Site<\/a>)Bad idea alert: Staten Island pols want to widen a segment of Arthur Kill Road … (S.I. Advance<\/a>)… while their local paper whined<\/a> on behalf of reckless drivers.The city will bar cars on several blocks of Broadway outside City Hall for Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration\/block party. (NY Post<\/a>, amNY<\/a>, Gothamist<\/a>)Council Member Vickie Paladino is under investigation by the Council Ethic Committee after calling for the “expulsion of Muslims from western nations.” (City & State<\/a>)So long, Elise Stefanik. We hardly knew ye! (NY Times<\/a>)The City Council passed a bill requiring the NYPD to figure out a way for journalists to access its radio feeds, while Gov. Hochul vetoed legislation to require feeds be made public statewide. (amNY<\/a>, Jason Beeferman via X<\/a>)Mayor Adams’s EDC chief Andrew Kimball isn’t sticking around for the Mamdani administration. (Crain’s<\/a>)Say goodbye to the Port Authority Bus Terminal’s rooftop parking lot. (W42ST<\/a>)The MTA’s latest anti-fare evasion turnstile redesign is off to a “bumpy” start, the Times<\/a> and amNY<\/a> reported \u2014 while The Post panned<\/a> the new turnstile “fins.”Also on the fare evasion beat: LIRR and Metro-North riders will soon be charged $2 for buying tickets they don’t immediately activate. (PIX11<\/a>)Federal Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s pregnant daughter called for the TSA to be abolished. To make a long story short: she declined to go through the body scanners … and then complained that “passive-aggressive” TSA agents took too long to pat her down. (NY Times<\/a>)Perfect headline, no notes: “Another day, another empty threat from the Trump administration over transit funding.” (Gothamist<\/a>)Mamdani endorsed Diana Moreno to succeed him in the State Assembly. (Queens Eagle<\/a>)The Brown University shooter used a fake license plate to hide his tracks. (NY Times<\/a>)Miles Taylor and Jeremy Zorek rode from Putnam County to Suffolk County using only a Metrocard. (NY1<\/a>)Related: The Transit Museum has a new exhibit honoring the MetroCard in the run-up to the outgoing fare payment system’s official demise. (NY Post<\/a>)And, finally, we don\u2019t usually do this \u2014 especially during\u00a0our own December Donation Drive<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 but if you\u2019re looking for one last Christmas present, we recommend \u201cFlaco\u201d (Blurring Books<\/a>) the coffee table book about the liberated owl whose year-long quest for freedom captivated the world. We\u2019d be remiss if we didn\u2019t mention our interest: Also mentioned in the book is that other great owl, albeit a barred owl, Barry, who was killed by a truck driver inside Central Park,\u00a0as Streetsblog vigorously reported<\/a>. But Barry is just a side actor here \u2014 Jonathan Hollingsworth\u2019s \u201cFlaco\u201d features gorgeous photos of the main attraction: the owl whose life was indeed a metaphor for freedom itself. Buy it at your favorite bookstore (not Amazon).\"\"Brooklynite Jonathan Hollingsworth is the creator of the ultimate Flaco coffee table book.Main photo: Gersh Kuntzman\/Barry the Owl inset: David Barrett<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Please donate.Click here to donate. 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