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Today is going to be a busy day in town: There’s a huge horse carriage hearing at City Hall that is likely to be about a lot more than horses.
Plus, in our lead story, Dave Colon makes the strong argument that congestion pricing has yielded a space dividend on the Queensboro Bridge, meaning another lane can be repurposed for cyclists.
And after today’s headlines, make sure you don’t miss yesterday’s mid-day story about the Mamdani administration’s delay in fixing the most-dangerous part of Canal Street. We hope this is only temporary!
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.