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‘Mountable’ No More? City Says New Bike Lane Design on Grand Concourse Will Curb Illegal Parking
By Kevin Duggan
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
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Opinion: The Case for Letting the BQE Fail
By Ilan Ackelsberg
The same activism that saved the Brooklyn Heights Promenade could bring down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
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Thursday’s Headlines: Far Above Cayuga’s Waters Edition
By Gersh Kuntzman
Streetsblog Editor-in-Chief Gersh Kuntzman is in Ithaca on Thursday for a panel on the state of local journalism. Plus the real news.
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Voters Appear To Reject Powerful Assembly Transportation Chair Bill Magnarelli For DSA’s Mo Brown
By Austin C. Jefferson
The longtime Assembly member appears to have lost to the upstart Onondaga County Legislator in the Democratic primary for a key upstate seat.
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Mamdani Moves to Ban ‘Scam’ Delivery App Motoclick For Underpaying Workers
By Sophia Lebowitz
Motoclick admitted to paying workers between $3.67 and $4.67 per hour in May — less than a quarter of the city’s minimum pay rate of $22.13, the city said.
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Wednesday’s Headlines: A Huge Night For Livable Streets Edition
By Gersh Kuntzman
A huge sweep for the kind of candidates that Streetsblog readers like. Plus other news.
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Dems Push for Guardrails to Shield Federal Transportation Grants From Trump Meddling
By David Meyer
Will Senate Democrats leverage the proposed Build America 250 Act to end President Trump’s meddling in transportation funding?
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