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  • Officer James Giovansanti gets into a car driven by another NYPD officer.
    NYPD Won’t Let Super-Speeder Cop Drive Squad Cars As Internal Affairs Launches Probe Following Streetsblog Report
    by Sammy Sussman
    June 26, 2026
    Officer James Giovansanti can’t drive an NYPD squad car — at least for now.
  • FDNY Brass Lobby Against Bronx Harlem River Greenway
    by Kevin Duggan
    June 26, 2026
    Senior FDNY officials are throwing their weight around to kill a proposed protected bike lane in the Bronx, in defiance of DOT and Mayor Mamdani’s agenda.
  • Mamdani Gives Harlem Bus Riders Their Own Lane on E. 116th Street
    by Emily Smith
    June 26, 2026
    DOT’s redesign will put 24/7 bus lanes in both directions on the crosstown corridor from Fifth Avenue to Pleasant Avenue.
  • Friday Video: A ‘Grand’ Grand Army Plaza
    by Gersh Kuntzman
    June 26, 2026
    New from Third Place News: the hope that someday, the ceremonial arch will be part of Prospect Park — a true third place for open-space-craving Brooklynites.
  • Friday’s Headlines: Bad Lawsuit Edition
    by David Meyer
    June 26, 2026
    A lawsuit to force Mayor Mamdani to reinstate criminal summonses for low-level e-bike violations got a lot of press. Plus the news.
  • ‘Mountable’ No More? City Says New Bike Lane Design on Grand Concourse Will Curb Illegal Parking
    by Kevin Duggan
    June 25, 2026
    The new bike paths on Boogie Down’s iconic thoroughfare will feature a standard curb mid-block, but still allow illegal parking via sloped curbs at the beginning and ends of a block.
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