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The Upper West Side of Manhattan won’t get bike share until June 2013. That’s according to New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, in testimony before the New York City Council Tuesday.

Each act had five minutes to convince the judges it merited the right to legitimately perform in the subway system under an MTA-approved banner. Help us discover the city's best underground music by snapping a shot or sending us a video clip of your favorite subway performance.

In Newark, roughly 500 pedestrians are struck by cars each year. It’s one of just two dozen cities across the country singled out by the federal government as a pedestrian safety focus city. Experts say that's not an anomaly: there's a statistical correlation between high-poverty neighborhoods and the likelihood of being hit by a car.

The head of the New York State Thruway Authority said Thursday that the road to funding the planned replacement of the Tappan Zee Bridge goes through toll-backed bonds — although a concrete financial plan may not come until August.

New York State had been hoping that a third of the cost of the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement would be funded through a low-interest loan. But the federal government has taken a pass — at least for this round.

A Senate committee hearing on the fairness of toll hikes devolved into a slugfest between Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)  and Bill Baroni, deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The New York City subway recorded 1.6 billion rides in 2011 — the system's highest number since 1950.

Washington D.C. may be famous for its cherry blossom trees — but Branch Brook Park in Newark, N.J. has more of the flowering pink trees that are the harbingers of spring. Check out a slideshow here.

Car wash workers are coming forward to protest their working conditions. Workers say they are underpaid and exposed to harsh conditions.

The president of New York City Transit said Thursday that removing trash cans at two subway stations to reduce the amount of garbage has been a success – but straphangers are trashing the idea.

New York state needs to slow the Tappan Zee Bridge process down, add transit and make sure there are strong design standards in place, according to Rockland County residents at the first public hearing on the bridge project Tuesday night.

NYPD brass defended the department’s record investigating bike and pedestrian deaths in 2-1/2 hours of often heated testimony before the New York City Council on Wednesday.

Delancey Street — a busy multi-lane street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side — will be getting a major safety overhaul.

Dozens of people gathered at the city's first bike share program planning workshop at in midtown Manhattan Tuesday night, poring over maps of Manhattan and carving out locations for some of the 600 share stations to be installed before the program begins this summer. 

Federal transportation officials have obtained a restraining order against a charter bus company that serves Chinatown.

The mother of a 24-year-old Brooklyn man killed by a subway train last November says the MTA should have done more to save her son.

Following on the heels of Staten Island, the Bronx will become the second of New York’s five boroughs to get real-time bus information.

Children under 18 account for 43 percent of car crash victims in Manhattan’s East Harlem neighborhood. But just a few blocks south, in the moneyed Upper East Side, the same age group accounts for less than 15 percent of neighborhood car crash victims.

The City Council passed three pieces of legislation Wednesday that would ease parking regulations — but Mayor Michael Bloomberg has indicated he will veto at least one of them: a bill that says traffic agents can cancel a ticket if shown a Muni-Meter receipt that’s less than five minutes old.

After sailing through two committee hearings, Joseph Lhota was unanimously confirmed by the New York State Senate to be chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday.