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Sophia Lebowitz continues her monthlong coverage of how Instacart is lobbying — completely disingenuously, if we do say so — Mayor Adams to veto a bill requiring the company to pay its workers the normal delivery worker minimum wage.
Meanwhile, in Red Hook, sweltering residents may finally get some relief on Sunday, as the Parks Department appears finally ready to open a public pool that is a lifeline for tens of thousands of low-income New Yorkers about whom Mayor Adams claims he cares.
A single unmarked NYPD car has been nabbed by city speeding cameras hundreds of times over the past three years — but there’s no paperwork disputing the tickets as essential to police work.
The NYPD and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection have cracked down on stores that sell illegal electric two-wheelers, but the city isn’t doing anything about online sales.