NYC has a new 'Boulevard of Death'

Plus: 15 ways to celebrate Lunar New Year [View this email in a browser.]( Gothamist relies on your support to make local news available to all. Not yet a member? [Consider donating and join today.]( [After 10 years of Vision Zero, NYC has a new ‘Boulevard of Death’]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: ☁️ Cloudy today, with highs in the lower 30s. It's Thursday in New York City, where Atlantic Avenue is the new "Boulevard of Death." Now ten years into Vision Zero — the city's effort to eliminate traffic deaths — here's how Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn came to [replace Queens Boulevard as the city's most dangerous thoroughfare](. And here's what else is happening: - Amtrak [canceled more than a dozen trains]( along its Northeast Corridor today due to freezing temperatures. - City Hall has confirmed that pregnant migrants in their third trimester won’t face eviction from New York City shelters [until their babies turn 6 months old](. - A Long Island midwife is accused of [falsifying polio, chickenpox, measles, mumps and rubella vaccination records]( for more than 1,000 schoolchildren, most of whom are from the New York City metropolitan area. - A Manhattan judge on Wednesday [denied a request to dismiss criminal charges]( against Daniel Penny, the man accused of choking a Black homeless man to death on an uptown F train last year. - The lobby floor of an apartment building in Queens Village [partially collapsed]( yesterday, though no one was hurt, authorities said. - City and state officials are urging the federal government to improve conditions at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center after a federal judge wrote a scathing ruling earlier this month explaining why [he refused to send a defendant there](. - The ACLU and a national Catholic peace organization have [joined New Jersey's legal fight]( to shut down the last remaining immigrant detention center in the state. - A think tank has pitched a series of ideas to get extra funding for city parks, including [a 50-cent surcharge on Citi Field tickets](. - The MTA is [upgrading the locks]( on subway conductor cabs — and considering eventually installing biometric technology to keep out scofflaws like the teens who recently took a subway for a joyride in a Queens train yard. - Hell Gate identified a family of real estate tycoons that keeps trying to make big political donations — including two recent donations to Mayor Eric Adams' legal defense fund — but [keeps getting their money returned]( because they're trying to do business with the city, and thus not allowed to give to politicians. - Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman endorsed New Jersey Rep. Andy Kim to take over Bob Menendez's Senate seat, pointing out that New Jersey First Lady Tammy Murphy — who also wants the Democratic nomination — [was, until recently, a Republican](. - A Lower East Side funeral home owner is joining a lawsuit to block congestion pricing, arguing that [it'll make his hearse trips in and out of the congestion zone too expensive](. - CNN's new CEO is concerned that the network has [no "swagger" anymore](. - The BBC is also reportedly [swagless](. - A private spacecraft that was supposed to land on the moon had issues with some kind of "leak" and is now [going to have to blow up in the air](. - Have some time for a game? [Play]( our mini local news crossword. - Sign up for reminders when we publish new games [here](. [“You're talking about a project that's going to take … more than a dozen elected officials, a ton of community boards, a ton of public pressure ... I just really feel that its completion is going to come down to whether or not Mayor Eric Adams cares about this.”]( - Brooklyn borough president antonio reynoso on [REDESIGNING A 10-MILE STRETCH OF ATLANTIC AVENUE]( to improve safety More from Gothamist [second image]( [15 ideas to celebrate Lunar New Year in New York City]( The Year of the Dragon is upon us — starting Feb. 10, we bid adieu to the Year of the Rabbit as the Lunar New Year arrives. [G Whiz: MTA proposes partial 6-week shutdown of G train this summer]( The plan would allow the agency to revamp the signal operating system during three major shutdowns of the G train from June through Labor Day. [We Rely On Your Support]( [Most New Yorkers try to avoid rats. NYC’s 'rat daddy' goes looking for them.]( After finishing his cashier shift at a Queens pizzeria on a recent Thursday night, Kenny Bollwerk, who goes by "Rat Daddy" on TikTok, did what he does several times a week: donned a reflective safety vest, headlamp and gloves, and made his way to Grand Central to film rats for his thousands of followers. [Green Day plays NYC subway with Jimmy Fallon: 'One of my coolest Rock Center moments']( The acclaimed rock band made an appearance at the Rockefeller Center station in Midtown on Tuesday night, performing hits like "American Idiot" and "Basket Case" after entering the subway in disguise. [Instagram]( [Instagram]( [Facebook]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Twitter]( [New York Public Radio] [WNYC]( | [WQXR]( | [NJPR]( | [GOTHAMIST]( [WNYC STUDIOS]( | [THE GREENE SPACE]( Copyright © New York Public Radio. All rights reserved. 160 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013 [TERMS OF USE]( You can update your [PREFERENCES]( or [UNSUBSCRIBE]( from this list.