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The president came to a Knicks game. And Andy Byford showed off new renderings of Penn Station. So it’s only fitting that we met these two major events with a colossal newsletter of our own.
This morning we published six — the same number that the Knicks will win in — stories, plus we’ll toss in another story that we ran on Monday afternoon so you don’t miss it.
People have lots of opinions about what should happen to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, but the only opinion that will end up mattering is the one belonging to the Transportation commissioner. So here it is.
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.