Oh, boy, now we're never going to hear the end of this. Fresh across the transom yesterday, our increasingly feebled old editor Gersh Kuntzman found out he was named to the City & State "Brooklyn Power 100" list. No reason was cited — perhaps it's obvious? — but City & State said inclusion on the list meant our editor is one of the borough's "most influential people in government, business, real estate, art and culture, education and nonprofits."
In a statement to Streetsblog, Kuntzman said he was "proud, honored, humbled and looking forward to a night of drinking with my 99 equally powerful new best friends."
Until then, here's the news from a busy Wednesday:
- First, just let's recap all the stories we posted on Streetsblog itself yesterday:
- Transportation Alternatives has a new leader!
- Council Speaker Corey Johnson called for the NYPD to do a better job of keeping bike lanes clear — and then the NYPD said it would!
- We crunched the numbers on Citi Bike's equity. Guess what? It's not bad!
- No charges for a truck driver who killed a West Village artist.
- Scott Stringer used our pages to call for more thought to be put into the MTA reorganization (which the MTA board later rubber-stamped, as the Daily News, amNY, NY Post and Politico reported). David Meyer had a good insight.
- Technology is killing our neighborhoods, as apps like Waze re-route drivers out of congestion (caused by themselves and other drivers, by the way) onto quieter residential streets. There oughta be a law! (NY1)
- A Daily News op-ed argues that the city's app-based taxi regulations are already making Uber and Lyft better — and may provide an example for other cities.
- And, finally, is anyone going to tow away that abandoned truck on the West Street bike lane? (Twitter)
