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Last night, we sent Kevin Duggan to what we expected to be a dull exercise in municipal governance — a meeting of the mayor’s government efficiency commission — but he came back with a corker of a story: It turns out, every member of the public who spoke at the hearing wants the Mamdani administration to cut red tape … and the only people comfortable with the current bureaucratic process were the politicians!
Read all about it below, plus today’s headlines and another great story that justifies our decision to reset our Mamdani-O-Meter back to zero permanently until the mayor makes Bedford Avenue safe again.
If Summer Streets’ new security measures are here to stay, the city should replace NYPD vehicles with physical barriers, cut police staffing costs and use the investment to make the event last all weekend.