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In today’s top story, the city hasn’t updated its public crash dataset in month — leaving advocates and reporter who rely on the data in the dark — or worse, misinforming them.
A notice on the city’s Open Data website promised to fix the issue in August, but it’s now September and the dataset still hasn’t updated.
Read about that — as well as a major “Schools Streets” announcement from the mayor — below:
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.