Reporting on transportation at The City Reporter (https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/) Previously at NY1, The New York Post, New York Daily News, The Journal News
Message or email me: JMartinez(at)TheCityReporter.NYC
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What a catch here by ace @THECITYNY photographer
📸 @fractenberg.bsky.social 📸
And you better believe that’s my new The City Reporter business card in cabbie Noureddine Bitat’s phone case. @thecity.nyc
“This has made me feel like I have another family here."
Cabbie whose taxi was trashed after Knicks Game Four win thanks New Yorkers who came to his aid after scare that has, for now, driven him out of his job.
NEW story in @thecity.nyc www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/17/k...
⭐️ SUBWAY CELEB SIGHTING ⭐️
Elevated subway *action* from the pedestrian path of the Queensboro Bridge.
Who else remembers when Diddy hung out the side of a car waving the key to the city given to him by Eric Adams — only to later return it. 🗝️🗝️🗝️🗝️🗝️🗝️🗝️🗝️🗝️🗝️🗝️🗝️
📸 @nypost.com & @theguardian.com 📸
You all know that @katiehonan.bsky.social is a key reporter at @thecity.nyc.
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Now she is THE key reporter. Check it out, check it out, check it out. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/17/m...
“It’s BIGG SAMM here and he’s on the mark!
Poking at ‘gazillionaires who run Central Park’
A horse is dead after munching on a plant
So BIGG SAMM’s letting it rip with a rant!
Why blame the worker when he was doing a job?
RIP Deniz, he made me sob!”
YEW’S TO BLAME! Union pins Central Park horse’s death on plant
Conservancy fires back that carriage driver should have kept Deniz from dining on shrubbery
NEW STORY in @thecity.nyc www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/16/c...
“He was not just a horse to us, he worked with us to help us earn our living, he had become part of our family.”
📸 FILE PHOTO of Deniz w/ owner Nurettin Kirbiyik courtesy @twulocal100.org 📸
A Central Park Conservancy rule sez horses are barred from causing “any damage to any tree, plant, flower, shrubbery or other vegetation under the jurisdiction of the Department.”
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Don't be this guy. Read our FIFA transit time trials to figure out how to get the FIFA World Cup games in New Jersey
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"This has made me feel like I have another family here,” the 59-year-old driver told reporters on Wednesday.
