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Driver Kills Senior Richard Headley in Midtown; No Summonses, No Charges (Gothamist) Partially-Shut Canarsie Tunnel Would Carry One-Fifth the Riders and Take 3 Years to Fix (NYT, Politico) City & State Finds a Lot of Holes in Cuomo’s Big Ticket Transportation Plans Assembly Member Robert Rodriguez Makes the Case for Toll Reform to Post Readers 500 Homes to […]

Silver Gets 12 Years (NYT 1, 2; Politico); Albany Shrugs (WNYC); Cuomo: “Justice Was Served” (Politico) Kabak: The MTA Doesn’t Have Many Options to Relieve Subway Crowding New 19th Precinct CO, Endorsed by Ben Kallos, Says “Bikes Are a Big Problem” (Our Town) Rodriguez, Rosenthal, Eugene to Intro Bill Requiring DOT Barnes Dance Study (News) City […]

Kaminsky Officially Wins Skelos’s Old Seat, Giving Democrats Majority in State Senate (AP, Politico) Not Your Imagination: The Subway Is Bursting at the Seams (NYT) To Get Vendors Off Sidewalks, Ydanis Rodriguez Wants More Upper Manhattan Plazas (DNA) Car Thieves Still at Large After Killing Chooi Tan on Canarsie Sidewalk; Daily News: “Accident” Cops Crash […]

Bharara Turns Up the Heat on Cuomo (News, Post, Politico 1, 2) Driver of Stolen SUV Kills Woman on Canarsie Sidewalk, Flees Scene (News, Post) Wrong-Way Driver Kills Woman, Injures Two Kids in Car in Woodlawn Heights (News, Post) Bratton Never Talks This Tough About Drivers Who Kill People (Post) How Do People on Waverly, St. […]

Albany Has Put Off Confirmation of de Blasio’s MTA Board Appointees for Nearly a Year (MTR) Today’s the Day DOT Officially Opens the Pulaski Bridge Bikeway (Gothamist) DOT’s Crosstown UES Bike Lane Plan — Now With More Bike Lanes (DNA) $4 Billion WTC PATH Station Will Get a Ribbon-Cutting After All (Politico) 3 Things Brooklyn Spoke Would Change […]

De Blasio’s People Get Subpoenaed in Campaign Finance Probe (WSJ); Will Cuomo’s? (Politico) Gridlock Sam: More Than One Senate Republican May Sponsor Move NY Bill (Politico – Paywall) David Weprin Ties Himself in Knots Talking About NYC Road Pricing (News) Why New York Needs a “Textalyzer” Bill and How It Would Work (WNYC, NYT) NY/NJ Legislators Want More […]