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Driver Kills Woman in Bensonhurst; NYPD, Daily News Blame Victim Planning Commission Approves de Blasio Rezonings; City Council Next (DNA) The Mayor’s New Transit Priority Is a $2.5B Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar (2AS, NYT, Politico, News) More SOTC Previews: Some Bus Upgrades (AMNY), Governors Island Development (Politico) City to Devote More Resources to Clean-Up of Litter Bins, Sidewalks, Graffiti, […]

Amsterdam Ave Protected Bike Lane Clears CB 7 in 28-13 Vote (AMNY) — Full Coverage Soon Even Light Parking Reforms Will Be a Heavy Lift in City Council (Gotham Gazette) Parking Pay-By-Phone to Launch Later This Year (News) Lyft Joins Uber in Race to the Bottom (Post); TLC Takes Note (News) Fordham Plaza Ready for Its […]

De Blasio’s Horse Carriage Debacle May Drag Out a While Longer (Post, News) Uber Drivers Protest Fare Cuts, Strike, Organize (AMNY, Gothamist, NYT, Post, News) Queens CB 1 Committee Endorses Protected Bike Lane for Shore Boulevard (Times Ledger) Plan to Redevelop Park Slope Supermarket Would Add Housing and Keep Parking (DNA) Realtors Look to Capitalize on L Train […]

Special Election to Replace Silver, Skelos, and Two Others Set for April 19 (NYT) Drunk Driver Kills Man in Washington Heights (News) Hit-and-Run Driver Severely Injures Woman in Williamsburg (Gothamist, Post) Taxi Driver Critically Injures 25-Year-Old Man in Chelsea (News) A Look at the Highly Punitive, High-Stakes, Low-Compensation Life of Delivery Cyclists (WNYC) With Uber Fare […]

Driver Kills Alfiya Djuraeva, 56, in Bensonhurst; Cited for Failure to Yield (News) No Info From MTA at L Train Forum, But Dilan Did Threaten Funding (News, DNA, WNYC, Bklyn Paper) Eric Adams Plugs “Freedom Ticket” as One Solution to Looming L Shutdown (Politico) Horse Carriages: Conservancy, Pedicabbies Protest (Politico 1, 2); Optics Somehow Get Worse (NYT) Citi Bike […]

Now That Motorists Are Taken Care Of, City Will Clear Bike Lanes (DNA) NYC Is Working to Improve Snow Removal, But Not to Help People Who Aren’t Driving (NYT) De Blasio Apparently Has the Votes to Restrict Horse Carriages and Sink the Pedicab Industry (Politico) MTA Officials Shrug Off Cuomo’s Budget Bait-and-Switch (WNYC) Electeds Want Answers on Upcoming L Train Shutdown (Gothamist); DNA […]