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Rabbi Moshe Indig of the Ahronim sect of Satmar Hasidim — many of whose members hate the bike lane on Bedford Avenue — endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor yesterday. This set off speculation (well, inside our newsroom) that maybe there was a bike pro quo in the works.
Fortunately, we did some digging (well, we got Indig on the phone) and apparently, the bike lane was not brought up in the endorsement discussions. Whew.
In any event, it leads the headlines today.
Also, don’t miss another Mamdani story so hot that we posted it over the weekend: Kevin Duggan found out that Mamdani’s pick for police commissioner — current top cop Jessica Tisch — is still cracking down on cyclists.
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Senior FDNY officials are throwing their weight around to kill a proposed protected bike lane in the Bronx, in defiance of DOT and Mayor Mamdani’s agenda.
New from Third Place News: the hope that someday, the ceremonial arch will be part of Prospect Park — a true third place for open-space-craving Brooklynites.
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
Motoclick admitted to paying workers between $3.67 and $4.67 per hour in May — less than a quarter of the city’s minimum pay rate of $22.13, the city said.
Officer James Giovansanti can’t drive an NYPD squad car — at least for now.
Senior FDNY officials are throwing their weight around to kill a proposed protected bike lane in the Bronx, in defiance of DOT and Mayor Mamdani’s agenda.
DOT’s redesign will put 24/7 bus lanes in both directions on the crosstown corridor from Fifth Avenue to Pleasant Avenue.
New from Third Place News: the hope that someday, the ceremonial arch will be part of Prospect Park — a true third place for open-space-craving Brooklynites.
A lawsuit to force Mayor Mamdani to reinstate criminal summonses for low-level e-bike violations got a lot of press. Plus the news.
The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
The same activism that saved the Brooklyn Heights Promenade could bring down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Streetsblog Editor-in-Chief Gersh Kuntzman is in Ithaca on Thursday for a panel on the state of local journalism. Plus the real news.
The longtime Assembly member appears to have lost to the upstart Onondaga County Legislator in the Democratic primary for a key upstate seat.
Motoclick admitted to paying workers between $3.67 and $4.67 per hour in May — less than a quarter of the city’s minimum pay rate of $22.13, the city said.
