Thursday’s Headlines: All About Us Edition

Yesterday was a slow news day … for the mainstream media, but we were bringing you the news you need. So instead of a long lead-in to today’s headlines, let’s just focus on some of our great stories you might have missed:

• We introduced you to the owners of the King Souvlaki truck, who now support the bike lane they once opposed.
• We gave you a bike’s-eye view of the new bike exit and entrance ramp on the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge.
• We revealed that the NYPD is still completely capable of writing criminal summonses against cyclists, undermining Jim Walden’s latest lawsuit.
• We let you know that the city’s plans for making Canal Street safer are a bit … narrow.
• And we let you in on the latest Citi Bike scandal.

Other outlets can’t touch that. But they tried — oh, they tried:

• We were happy to see that amNY properly covered the city’s bus lane groundbreaking on Fordham Road yesterday, pointing out that Council Member Oswald Feliz opposed a full busway last year only to come back now and say that the Mamdani administration was only giving the Bronx “crumbs.” (He still opposes the watered-down bus lane, which is not a crumb, but a bona-fide service improvement for tens of thousands of low-income commuters, but why quibble?)
• Speaking of buses, Britain’s new prime minister is already delivering the good stuff. (The Guardian)
• Are Uber drivers also Uber employees? A Brooklyn judge will decide. (amNY)
• Meanwhile, a federal judge paused implementation of a law that would bar Uber and Lyft from deactivating drivers without advance notice. (The City Reporter)
• We mentioned it yesterday, but the Brooklyn Paper also jumped on the carnage that occurred in the borough over the weekend.
• Lithium-ion battery fires are up, but fatalities are down. (amNY)
• There’s a scam taxi service in town. (NY Post)
• Brooklyn Borough Hall station is spiffy again after a $106-million renovation. (Gothamist)
• The Mamdani administration has a new economic development team — an old hand and a progressive holding the leash. (NYDN, NY Times)