Today’s Headlines

Wow, what a bad day the mayor had yesterday. First, he had to ride the subway, where reporters grumbled at his tardiness (NY Post). Then he gets to his own press conference only to have an Assembly Member tell everyone that she opposes congestion pricing plan (which is why the mayor was on the subway in the first place!). Then, reporters asked about his continued investment in a highly subsidized ferry system that carries passengers in the thousands every day, while the subway and bus system carry millions. (NY Post). Scott Stringer is not pleased. (Gothamist) Neither is the NY Post editorial page.

There is no better pedal-assist e-bike than the Jump bikes that are being tested in Staten Island and the Bronx — except when the power cuts out and suddenly you're at Lily Pond Ave. and McClean Ave. on The Rock and have to wait 20 minutes for an S51 to take you to the ferry because there's no other dockless bike anywhere nearby.

We started yesterday's headlines file with a mild concern about the NYPD's plan to stop responding to minor fender-benders or crashes without injuries in Staten Island. We fretted that if cops aren't there to log crashes, the total number of reported crashes will fall — which will give all of us a false sense of security about, well, the security of our roads.

Um, what could possibly go wrong? Apparently, cops in Staten Island will no longer respond to routine fender-benders because they take up too much manpower, NY1 reported. But Myles Miller's scoop suggested that such collisions may not be reported anymore — which raises questions about whether our "data-driven" Department of Transportation will know which intersections are the most dangerous.

We'll cap off our week of investigations into the horrendous driving records of NYPD officers with a 6:30 a.m. spot on NY1's "Mornings on 1" show today — hopefully Pat Kiernan will share a banquette with our editor Gersh Kuntzman instead of the cold anchor desk. But we're just pleased that the affable Canadian has seen the importance of coverage that has revealed many recidivist reckless drivers among the NYPD rank-and-file.

We spent most of the week writing about cops who drive recklessly in their personal cars when they're off-duty. We found that roughly 40 percent of cops have multiple speeding or red light tickets. And we found one recidivist assigned to the 23rd Precinct in Manhattan with 41 of those serious moving violations. And later today, we'll break an even bigger story of another cop's willful disregard for human life.

We checked out the gala preview of the Museum of the City of New York's "Cycling in the City" exhibit last night, "partying" with Friends of Streetsblog Jon Orcutt, Charles Komanoff, Helen Ho, Do Lee, Ken Podziba and many other safe streets legends. During the wine-and-cheese hour, someone called Streetfilms auteur Clarence Eckerson Jr. "the Orson Welles of the street." (We consider ourselves the "Orson Beane of the street," but that's us.) In any event, check out the show — or read Julianne Cuba's review on Streetsblog. Gothamist also did a photo-filled story.

Have you been loving how we have been bashing Mayor de Blasio for four straight days? It all started when the mayor came up with this crazy plan to curb placard abuse by building more free parking for cops, which we thought was dumb because we all know that free parking dramatically increases the chance that someone will drive to work — which is bad.

Yes, you read that right: The greatest athlete in the history of the world, Usain Bolt, will come to City Hall today to show off a new line of scooters from a company that bears his name (and had better be paying him royally). Streetsblog will be there, if only to test-ride some new micro-mobility with the biggest name in scooters since Paul Steely White joined Bird.