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It started on Friday afternoon (naturally) with Mayor Adams’s announcement that he would erase three blocks of the Bedford Avenue bike lane — which his DOT only completed late last year — on the grounds that it is unsafe.
Then he ramped it up with another propaganda video depicting bike riders — not parents who leave their kids off in the middle of the street and tell them to run into traffic — as the villains.
This comes after six weeks of criminalizing cycling and, more recently, pushing for bike speed limits before he even gets around to slowing down cars.
New York voters have increasingly been rejecting Adams, so now he’s on a revenge tour, embracing the fever dreams of his beloved Republican party. He’s been quick to complain about politicians who will say anything to get elected, but now this guy is willing to do anything if it could possibly widen the narrowest of chances he has of retaining Gracie Mansion in November.
New York City needs to prepare for the next hot day, not just the next storm.
We were cheering “Tow New York, tow New York, tow!” as Lower Manhattan went car-free for the Knicks ticker-tape parade. Plus the news.
According to the NYPD, starting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, towing crews will remove any car that is parked south of Canal Street.
A longtime foe of congestion pricing has found another clean-air fix to hate. Oh, and he takes donations from bus companies.
Advocates are pushing the mayor to make good on his campaign promise to fund and create universal open streets in front of schools.
The NYPD Big Brother approach to public space is excessive. Plus other news.
Will Mamdani cap soaring Citi Bike costs?
