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The good news is that Saturday’s Summer Streets was not entirely ruined by over-policing. But there were still too many security chokepoints to yuck the yum of participants in what should be a joyous car-free day.
But Community Board 6 member Jason Froimowitz offers the Mamdani administration a third way: Yes to security, but no to cops standing around collecting overtime or, worse, sitting around inside idling cars.
So check out Froimowitz’s op-ed below, as well as Sammy Sussman’s on-the-ground coverage.
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.