Bikes on the Beat ™️ Press Conference Edition Ran into @elkue.bsky.social and his 1x4, friction-shifted Lemond. Reynolds 853 steel, Ultegra and DuraAce, swept-back bars and just four gears. Crazy light. Love it.
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NYC Council members are asking Gov. Hochul to block the DMV from issuing license plates to illegal tow trucks in the city after our reporting found the 'ghost fleet' has surged to more than 700 trucks gothamist.com/news/close-l...
Close loophole for illegal tow trucks on NYC streets, councilmember says
Republican City Councilmember Frank Morano has introduced a bill to address gaps in oversight of the industry highlighted in a Gothamist investigation.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to overhaul parts of Brooklyn’s Linden Boulevard, which has grown so dangerous that some lawmakers have deemed it the city’s "new Boulevard of Death.” gothamist.com/news/mamdani...
Check out my esteemed colleague @brigidbergin.bsky.social interviewing mayor Mamdani RIGHT NOW! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pu0...
Mamdani's First 100 Days: Lessons from La Guardia
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This morning on the show, @elkue.bsky.social unpacked Mayor Mamdani's announcement that Grand Army Plaza will be getting a makeover. Plus, we dug into why New Yorkers aren't composting as much as they used to. www.wnyc.org/story/a-pede...
A Pedestrian-Friendly Grand Army Plaza? | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC
Liam Quigley discusses the Mayor's plans for a redesign of Grand Army Plaza, and digs into the city-wide decline in composting.
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A Brooklyn tour bus company that has been caught idling by citizen bounty hunters who get a cut of the city's $350 fines is suing in federal court to end the program, which it calls unconstitutional. www.courtlistener.com/docket/73172...
Best Trails and Travel Corp. v. New York City, 1:26-cv-02944 - CourtListener.com
Docket for Best Trails and Travel Corp. v. New York City, 1:26-cv-02944 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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The NYPD warrant squad is using an unmarked van with its license plate illegally bent in half and a fake Doordash sticker on the door, as seen in downtown Brooklyn just now
NEW: Poop pool? NYC health honchos have concerns about plan to let people swim in a pool filled with water from the East River gothamist.com/news/nyc-hea...
NYC health department has questions about the floating pool set for the East River
The pool’s creators are adding an emergency chlorine dosing system as they await health department approvals.
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This guy wearing a Yankees cap with NYPD logos on it just blew a stop sign on Tillary street in Brooklyn, nearly hitting me as he raced into traffic coming off the BQE. Then he parked on the sidewalk at the 84th precinct and refused to give me his name or badge #
I wish anyone who likes riding bikes who comes to NJ to see the world cup lots of luck
NYC is finally rolling out its latest commercial waste zone. On Sunday, the death toll from private garbage truck crashes since the reforms were announced climbed to 10. gothamist.com/news/reforms...
Reforms to 'wild west' private trash industry come to Manhattan's Chinatown
The sanitation department has spent nearly seven years working to implement reforms to rein in the city's notoriously dangerous private waste haulers.
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ICE vehicle in Manhattan just now in the new livery that says “Defend the Homeland”
“You have to be very careful on Linden because the traffic is horrible,” she added. “They’re always speeding. They don't think about people.” NEW: gothamist.com/news/is-lind...
Is Linden Blvd NYC's new 'Boulevard of Death?' 9 dead in crashes on street since 2021.
The 6-mile stretch of Linden Boulevard between Flatbush and Ozone Park is one of the most dangerous in the city, data shows.
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Just saw this driver casually get out and put stickers over his license plates just before getting on the Manhattan Bridge to avoid congestion pricing
The security is super locked down at the nyc Wikipedia event because some genius brought a gun to the last one
I am planning a trip to Baltimore. Some have called it the greatest city in america
The strollers have crossed Flatbush Ave from park slope... nobody is safe. I can barely walk around any public venue now... only Dallas BBQ is safe
The HOS Ricante is at the Brooklyn Navy Yard this week. It can hold 119 people and is probably being used to support the Empire Wind project.
Just came across this old pic of Mamdani getting arrested protesting for taxi workers outside City Hall in 2021
Flashback to 2021 when Dallas BBQ teamed up with NYC to get people vaccinated against COVID
I'm BACK with a new investigation: A fleet of unlicensed tow trucks has been growing in NYC, racing through the streets with fatal consequences. I used data to reveal that there are at least 700 illegal trucks: gothamist.com/news/ghost-f...
Ghost fleet: How New York City lost control of the tow truck industry
The number of unlicensed tow trucks on city streets has increased, putting drivers and pedestrians at risk.
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My building always used to shake when trucks go by on the BQE but its been shaking a lot more recently and some of the doors in the apartment are closing on their own now
Encountered a functioning payphone for the first time in years at Kellog’s diner in Brooklyn
Wegman's is now collecting biometric data from anyone entering its two NYC locations gothamist.com/news/nyc-weg...
NYC Wegmans is storing biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces
The supermarket chain says it’s a move to ensure shopper safety. Surveillance experts warn of privacy risks.
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