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All our little reporter friends made fun of us when we billed Tuesday’s Transportation Committee hearing as the Super Bowl, but we were right (and Chairman Shaun Abreu even agreed, using our term when he opened the hearing).
Two decades after a major rezoning, the city should continue to emphasize pedestrians, cyclists and bus riders in Downtown Brooklyn in order to make the best possible version of the neighborhood as a residential and job center.
Treating the arrival of United Nations diplomats to our world-class city as a burden rather than asset shows the dearth of quality public space in New York — and shows we are not the envy of the world.