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DDC Expects Six-Year East Houston Street Project to Wrap This Month (DNA) De Blasio Says Cops’ Discipline Records Should Be Public (DNA); Why Is NYPD Hiding Them? (DNA) Uber Has a Thought on How Uber Could Profit From L Train Shutdown (Politico, AMNY, Post) Under Pressure From Cuomo, Developers Scramble to Make It Easier to Drive to LGA (Times Ledger) Polling Site Moved for […]

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Motorist Leaves Van in Gear, Striking 2 Seniors in Astoria; 1 Dead (DNA, AMNY); Post, News: “Accident” De Blasio: Eastern Parkway Pedestrian Islands Should’ve Never Existed (DNA) Related: Unnamed Electeds, NYPD — City Hall Can’t Decide Who Wanted Islands Removed (Gothamist) De Blasio Ups J’Ouvert Police Presence (NYT); The Finest of the Finest Weigh In (News) Cops Plow Through Group of Kids on Bikes in Bensonhurst, […]

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Two Motorists Fatally Strike 65-Year-Old Man on Bronxdale Avenue; One Flees Scene (Post, News) LIE Crash in Queens Kills Three, Injures Many (ABC, News, Post); 28 Bus Routes Disrupted (DNA) Bratton Says Revealing Cops’ Disciplinary Records Violated State Law (WSJ, News) Sen. James Sanders: State to Fund Street Improvements at Jamaica Transit Hub (DNA, News) Cab Drivers Talk to the Times […]

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FDNY Ambulance Driver Strikes and Kills Gen Zhan, 81, in East Village Crosswalk (DNA, Post) Parade Organizers Claim No Knowledge of Eastern Parkway Ped Island Removal (Gothamist) Brooklyn Paper Says de Blasio’s Waste Hauling Reforms Are an Invitation to Organized Crime Daily News Thinks Cuomo’s Q70 “LaGuardia Link” Should Be Free Today in Terrible Ideas: Subsidizing Uber […]

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Huge Swaths of Brooklyn Still Have No Bike Infrastructure (NYT) Yellow Cabs Are Occupied Just 46 Percent of the Time They’re on the Streets (WSJ, NY1) The Case Against Fare Evasion Arrests and For Discounted MetroCards (News) Cyclist Doored Then Run Over on Graham Ave in Brooklyn, in Critical Condition (News) Driver Hits and Kills […]

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Son of Slain Cyclist Michael Schenkman: “We Are Not a Bike-Friendly City” (NYT, News) Politico Asks Whether First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris Has Too Much on His Plate As Uber and Lyft Grow in NYC, So Do Crashes Involving Black Cars (Post) Sanitation Commish Kathryn Garcia Makes the Business Case for Waste Carting Reform (Crain’s) Driver […]