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Today is the State of the State address in Albany — and Gov. Hochul is going to make lots of news, we’re told:
1. She’ll announce that the Second Avenue Subway will not end in East Harlem, but will indeed turn left and go west along 125th Street all the way to Broadway.
2. And she’ll also announce that the city will get to implement some version of the “Stop Super Speeders” bill to rein in the worst of the worst reckless drivers.
That latter scoop comes to us via our newest Streetsblog — Streetsblog Empire State, where Albany Bureau Chief Austin C. Jefferson is already kicking ass and taking names.
In other news from today’s newsletter, don’t miss Sophia Lebowitz’s report on the latest shenanigans by the delivery app companies, Kevin Duggan’s quick take on a judge’s decision yesterday to allow the city to keep the Court Street bike lane in place, and Dave Colon’s second story of the day, his take on automated bus lane enforcement.
What a day. And don’t forget to sign up for the Streetsblog Empire State newsletter, which you can do on the Empire homepage.
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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.
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