After passing both the Assembly and the Senate, Governor Cuomo is poised to sign a bill requiring large trucks to affix a "crossover" mirror that eliminates blind spots in front of the vehicle. The bill, sponsored by state senator Martin Golden of Brooklyn, was spurred on by the death of 4-year-old Moses Englender, who was killed by a truck in May as he was riding a tricycle because the driver couldn't see him. Cuomo's office told the Daily News that the law was a "necessary step" to "reduce the number of injuries and deaths that have been the result of a drivers' inability to see pedestrians that pass in front of their vehicles." more ›

Some Bay Ridgers are shouting NIMBY, claiming truckers are turning the corner of Seventh Avenue and 92nd Street into a motor lodge. Cops say they are ticketing 'em, but that isn't necessarily prohibitive since its still cheaper than parking and staying in a hotel (a ticket for parking a commercial vehicle over three hours runs $65 and parking overnight starts at $265 and goes up to $515). We suspect the bad press will nudge the NYPD to ticket a bit harder, but in the meantime we don't really know what we'd do if trucks were settling in on our block. Passive-agressive notes? more ›

A 28-truck convoy was transporting 500 tons of steel beams from the World Trade Center when two of the trucks collided in Pennsylvania traffic this morning. The convoy was carrying the beams from JFK airport to Coatesville, PA, the Philadelphia suburb where they were made more than 40 years ago. The crash occurred on Route 209, near Stroudsburg, PA, when a truck driven by Manual Carro rear-ended another one, sending one beam through the engine of the front car. Very sadly, Carro said his heart was broken over the crash. He called the beam, “the load of a lifetime.” You can see a video of the convoy below. more ›

The head of the Port Authority implied yesterday there would be new price hikes on commuters soon, in order to fix crumbling city infrastructures. PA executive director Christopher Ward spoke to New York Building Congress yesterday, outlining the need for more money: "We need to find new creative pricing schemes that pull wealth out of that economy and reinvest in the infrastructure that we know we need today...The public does embrace the idea of paying for something. They just need to tangibly see it get built." There were no specifics about what might increase for commuters, though one possible proposal is for drivers to pay a premium to use fast lanes on bridges and in tunnels. more ›

Your fifteen minutes are over, gourmet food vendor truck vendors. NYC's crowded streets couldn't stop you, the Halal mafia couldn't scare you off, but the fancy food vending trend—which gave us everything from gay ice cream to, uh, Eurotrash—has finally screeched to a halt, now that Tyra Banks has stepped in. more ›