Samuel Santaella

Get ready for an action-packed March! QueensLink will be out and about spreading the word about #RailsandTrails 🚉🌳 Hope to see you there! #BuildtheQueensLink

A list of locations: • Mott Playground (Concourse) • Fountain of Youth Playground (Mott Haven / Longwood) • Morris Mesa Playground (Mount Hope) • Van Dyke Playground (Brownsville) • Roebling Playground (South Williamsburg) • Elizabeth Stroud Playground (Bedford-Stuyvesant) • Vladeck Park (Lower East Side) • St. Nicholas Park 133rd St. Playground (Harlem) • Corona Health Sanctuary (Corona) Kaltenmeier Playground (Rosebank / Shore Acres)

Spring is coming, and so is $50 million for parks!

We’re investing in parks in historically underfunded neighborhoods across all five boroughs starting with:

Looking to raise billions of dollars? Try parking reform:

"'We should be looking at all those things,' Fuleihan had said, referring to the questioner's specific mention of dynamic parking fees or other ways to get revenue from one of the city's untapped public resources."

Free parking in NYC is a give away to the rich

that meme: I can confirm

State Senate Majority Leader Wants Answers on Insurance - Streetsblog Empire State The growing chorus of state lawmakers who want clarity on how the governor's auto insurance helps real New Yorkers now includes Stewart-Cousins, the second-most-powerful woman in state government.

I'm so proud of my reporters @kevinduggan.bsky.social and Austin C. Jefferson for their continued coverage of Gov. Hochul's attempt to lower the cost of driving by lowering compensation to victims of crashes. The latest:

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Cars really mess with people's brains

Six seven?

How about seventy-six: That's the % of New Yorkers who support modernizing environmental review to deliver the housing we need.

Just 7% oppose, per a new Siena poll. That's as uncontroversial as it gets.

Surprise, surprise: the #1 worst super speeder in 2024 also topped the list in 2025, receiving 259 tickets in the five boroughs and paying over $60,000 in fines last year.

Since this Audi was purchased in mid-2023, it has received over 1,000 speed camera tickets in total.

All of these used to be exclusively for cars. They are now for micromobility, and that is better for everyone.

Somehow people manage to just tune car crashes out and factor them in as the cost of doing business

Vickie Paladino being in the preview frame of that video tells me everything I need to know

Brooklyn Bridgeway > QueensWay

woah, a million units?

Amtrak ends plans for new bi-level cars - Trains WASHINGTON — Amtrak is scrapping plans for a new generation of bi-level passenger equipment to replace its aging Superliner fleet, announcing that it will instead move ahead with developing a single-l...

“This new approach will deliver a more consistent and accessible customer experience across the Amtrak network while maintaining our commitment to introduce the first new long-distance cars in the early 2030s,”

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Photo of a lush green urban courtyard in downtown Vancouver next to Rogers Arena.

Even in the densest parts of North America, well-designed courtyards can create serenity and respite. That’s a key part of urban livability. #Vancouver

based 🤣

MTA blasts 75-decibel ads in subways in latest disruption for NYC commuters — and agency barely makes money off them Sounds like another subway nuisance! Straphangers already struggling to hear service updates over the roar of the subway will soon have to put up with paid commercials blaring through the same spea…

This is inappropriate and unacceptable.

The subway is already too loud, with unnecessary announcements. They make navigation harder for those who rely on them, cause riders to tune out, and make riding a chore.

Advertising is never an appropriate use for transit PAs.

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New York has hundreds of miles of protected bike lanes. But they don’t connect.

A bike lane shouldn’t just… end. But too often it does — dumping riders into traffic, whether it’s for a block or an entire neighborhood.

A car-free day is a must, to make up for the shitty air quality that fireworks will bring.

Maybe this time the bridges will actually be open to people walking and rolling, too.

A couple waiting for a train on the subway, the man is wearing a backpack with a small dog peeking out looking around nervously

Timeline cleanse

Took a decade lol

(yes, it's already been a decade since the first buses with that livery went into service on the Q10)

Lifestyles of the Rich & Reckless 💰️🛞

Photo of a man wearing an Amazon Teamsters hat and a hi-vis jacket next to this quote: “This bill is very important to me. My son, who’s 17, has a mental disability. I have guardianship. He called me at work saying he was going to commit suicide. I left work and stayed the night with him at the hospital. The next day at work, they said I didn’t have enough time accrued to go to the hospital. I had to fight to get my time back to just zero so I wouldn’t get fired.” Michael Lebron Amazon Labor Union-IBT Local 1

Photo of a man in a hoodie and hi-vis jacket in a deli next to this quote: “This bill should have passed years ago. I hurt my foot on the job and they told me to take 2 ibuprofen and keep going. The next day a doctor confirmed my foot was broken, but when I brought the doctor’s note to work, they said I was lying. A bill like this will hold them accountable. But then again, the accountability really has to be enforced. Because Amazon has enough money to continue to do what they’re doing.” Anthonie Sparrow Amazon Labor Union-IBT Local 1

Photo of a woman with a cane wearing an Amazon Teamsters shirt next to this quote: “This bill makes me hopeful. I fell leaving my shift and had to take unpaid leave to recover. And now, in bad weather I have to take unpaid leave because it slows me down. This bill makes us feel like we have a voice, and hopeful that other people are thinking of us while these big corporations are crushing us down.“ Joelle Jean Amazon Labor Union-IBT Local 1

Photo of a man wearing a beanie and white hoodie jacket next to this quote: “It’s about time. We walked out in 2020 [and demanded] 2-weeks leave, and [Amazon] refused. I was injured and my wife was in a high-risk pregnancy. We struggled. For a lot of these workers, English is their second language, and their leave isn’t explained to them well. I think this bill will help a lot.” Wajdy Bzezi Amazon Labor Union-IBT Local 1

Millions of working New Yorkers now have more sick leave & time off. We spoke to 5 Amazon employees about what Local Law 145 means for them.

In addition to expanding NYC’s Protected Time Off, we’re launching proactive employer compliance checks with the Department of Consumer & Worker Protection.

Accessibility at Broadway Junction is something I'm trying to follow closely because it really is a whole complex with no extra space to take advantage of in its current layout. So I'm fascinated by the plan they have for this

If all else fails, blame Reagan

wait, Bitcoin is crashing?

POV: Today was the day that your neighbors got to be kids again.

also noise pollution in the U.S. is almost entirely from cars and it’s literally giving people heart attacks

I wrote an article about it because it’s so absurd

De-Icing the Third Rail: Vintage Redbirds Among MTA’s Arsenal to Prep for Storm New York City Transit’s fleet for snow and emergency response includes 55 diesel locomotives, 39 crew transport train cars and 10 snow-thrower units.

Ahead of the blizzard in NYC, here is a story from last month on how the MTA keeps the system moving during heavy snow.

From 1/23 in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/23/m...