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Mayor Adams’s signature achievement, the City of Yes for Housing Opportunities, is only as good as its implementation. So for starters, Streetsblog came up with a rating system to encourage developers to get busy picking the low-hanging fruit: low-density neighborhoods that could take a bit more density.
Meanwhile, Dave Colon took a lot at one of the Adams administration’s signature disgraces: its effort to get ride of a protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue.
Here’s how two adjoining neighborhoods — Sunset Park and Bay Ridge — ended up looking so different on the Department of Transportation’s new truck map.
The small expansion of e-car charging stations is a small down payment on the city’s larger plan to permanently allocate more public space for the automobile.