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TGIF and welcome to the Friday newsletter!
Today’s top story from Sophia Lebowitz exposes how food-delivery app HungryPanda pressured workers to make dangerous bike deliveries during last month’s blizzard, according to deliverymen who accused the company of dispatching them to closed businesses — then not paying them accordingly.
Plus: Two ways the NYPD disappointed us this week — the real impact of placard corruption AND victim-blaming a child for their death.
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.