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Nolan Hicks is back with another barn burner: After last week’s ICE raid on Canal Street devolved into violence, Hicks wondered, “Where was the NYPD to get between the protesters and the federal agents beating them up? And where was the NYPD to make sure protesters didn’t harm anyone?”
From there, we learned that it’s not so simple: We want the right to protest in public — indeed, it’s promised in the First Amendment. But who will defend that right? It turns out, the NYPD has very little maneuverability to prevent President Trump’s federal troops from beating up protesters.
As a result, our streets may indeed remain chaotic and violent if the president’s threats to send more troops comes to pass.
Read Hicks’s story … and stay tuned.
There’s a lot of other news in our email blast today, so get to it.
Congressional negotiations over America’s next big transportation law hit some speed bumps this summer — but that doesn’t mean there isn’t work to be done.
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.
This year’s shortfall again underscores the Collision Investigation Squad’s limited safety role compared to peer cities such as Chicago.
Congressional negotiations over America’s next big transportation law hit some speed bumps this summer — but that doesn’t mean there isn’t work to be done.
Our lives are defined by cars, even if we neither own nor drive them. Plus other news.
“When you make it easier for people to ride, they’re going to ride,” one advocate said.
Advocates called it a “no-brainer.”
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.
DoorDash finally pays the piper (Streetsblog gets action). Plus other news.
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.
