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A cyclist died in Central Park on Monday — and NYPD, true to form, showed up afterwards to ticket cyclists.
The fatal crash occurred at 8:20 a.m. on Monday morning at more or less the same spot in Central Park where a cyclist fatally wounded a pedestrian less than two weeks ago — but this time, the victim was a 71-year-old cyclist who collided with an unleashed dog.
Get the full story below, along with an interview with a truck side-guard evangelist and the scoop on another exciting Mamdani bike-and-bus project in Brooklyn.
President Trump sort of inadvertently made an argument for banning horse carriages from Central Park on Thursday when he critiicized the City Council’s 40-7-2 vote to end the Central Park horse carriage industry with an ill-conceived analogy to cars.
The city’s much-anticipated program to require speed-limiting devices inside the cars of repeatedly reckless drivers will launch next year, though questions remain.