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You gotta hand it to Nolan Hicks: Today, he has a great scoop out of the NYPD, which quietly informed the city Department of Investigation that it had rejected out of hand a DOI recommendation that it stop considering precinct station houses as “self-enforcement zones” — a term of art that means that cops won’t get tickets for doing stuff that would get us written up.
It’s the classic “Who’s watching the watchers” kind of story — and remember, you heard it here first from Nolan Hicks. H-I-C-K-S.
In other news, outdoor dining is dying because the Council and the Adams administration made it seasonal instead of all year. Plus, we have a hot op-ed from pedestrian advocate Christine Berthet.
And don’t miss Kevin Duggan’s update on the Court Street bike lane battle.
And scroll down further for a few Monday stories that were posted since the last time we emailed you.
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.
The Teamsters are fighting anti-union Amazon and the battleground is New York City streets.
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.
“I’m not willing to keep our teams active in the field,” Lieber said on Thursday morning.
Streetsblog interviewed the president and public relations director of the Century Road Club Association.
The devices — called Intelligent Speed Assistance — prevent drivers from exceeding the speed limit
New Yorkers can vote to stop those endless anti-bike lane lawsuits.
