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Our own Kevin Duggan offers Gov. Hochul a different way of lowering insurance costs by cutting down on what she would call unnecessary litigation — but it’s actually necessary under our current system.
Meanwhile, David Meyer shows us how Mayor Mamdani is moving boldly on safer streets for all (which should help with the insurance costs, governor!).
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.