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You love him in his new “Old Man Vertical” series and his old horizontal “Criminal Mischief” series (now on Season 5!), but now you can catch Streetsblog Editor Gersh Kuntzman on stage tonight as part of the “Not In My Backyard” comedy roundtable show at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater on E. 14th Street. Details and cheap tickets are here.
President Trump sort of inadvertently made an argument for banning horse carriages from Central Park on Thursday when he critiicized the City Council’s 40-7-2 vote to end the Central Park horse carriage industry with an ill-conceived analogy to cars.
The city’s much-anticipated program to require speed-limiting devices inside the cars of repeatedly reckless drivers will launch next year, though questions remain.