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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.
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.
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.
