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Friday’s Headlines: Just the News Edition

We've got one more workday before we can hit the beach. Plus the news.

We've got one more workday before we can hit the beach.

So let's get right to the headlines:

  • Former DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg is the new dean of NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School. (Press release via NYU)
  • John Surico checked in on the Upper West Side's new delivery microhubs. (Curbed)
  • A Gateway Tunnel construction detour is coming for the West Side greenway. (Gothamist)
  • Proposals coming out of the mayor's Charter Revision Commission are "City of Yes on steroids," Council Member Bob Holden charges. (QNS)
  • A 90-year-old was killed by a moped rider in Homecrest. (CBS New York)
  • NYPD will sack 31 rookie cops who it says were not qualified to be hired. (amNY, Gothamist)
  • Environmental advocates are warning about debris from Gov. Hochul's Cross-Bronx highway expansion spilling into the Bronx river. (amNY)
  • PCAC survey finds widespread negative experiences with OMNY. (NY Times)
  • NYCHA wants to turn some of its parking lots into public EV charging hubs. (Crain's)
  • Some super hilarious Staten Islander painted "TRUMP" on a speed bump. (S.I. Advance)
  • DOT is selling "limited edition" signs that say "Welcome to Queens." (QNS)
  • A British guy here for 17 days is trying to map all five boroughs. (The City)
  • The Trump administration is holding up funding for the National Guard troops that patrol the subway. (NY Times)
  • Reddit is the place to be if you want to live in N-Y-C. (NY Groove)
  • EPA workers and their supporters rallied in Foley Square in support of 139 agency staffers put on leave by Administrator Lee Zeldin. (Gothamist)
  • Is this the only legitimate reason to block a bike lane? (@pair_up_ via Instagram)

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