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Check out Summer Specialist Matthew Sage’s analysis of Mayor Adams’s failure to open the Red Hook Pool this summer, leaving tens of thousands of residents to swelter in one of the hottest Julys on record.
We would ask the mayor about this, of course, but he’s stopped having press conferences.
The Mamdani administration will extend the Livingston Street busway west of its current terminal at Smith Street, freeing an existing bus lane from a morass of placard abuse.
And about half of trade waste trucks in the city have been exempted because “the design or operation of the vehicle” makes it too challenging to install the after-market safety feature. Huh?
Two decades after a major rezoning, the city should continue to emphasize pedestrians, cyclists and bus riders in Downtown Brooklyn in order to make the best possible version of the neighborhood as a residential and job center.