The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog NYC.
Sophia Lebowitz is back with more coverage of the shadowy world where illegal high-speed motorized two-wheelers — aka e-motos — are still openly sold despite Mayor Mamdani’s cease-and-desist letter to the likes of Facebook Marketplace and Amazon.
Lebowitz’s review of the 42 recipients of the letter found that most had halted online sales of the street-illegal devices, but Facebook Marketplace and Temu are still defying the mayor.
If they keep it up, the city could invoke fines of $2,000 per day per device, which could add up to real money pretty quickly, even for someone who owns a private island.
Also in today’s newsletter, a fond adieu to Summer Streets, today’s headlines and oh so much more.
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.