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Thursday’s Headlines: The Ghosts of Mayors Past Edition
Mayor Adams said the other day that Gracie Mansion is haunted. Plus all the other real news from yesterday.
May 12, 2022
OPINION: NYPD Officers Must Live in the City They Serve Rather Than Being an ‘Occupying Force’
State Sen. Kevin Parker makes the case for enacting a residency requirement for cops.
May 6, 2022
City Launches a New Vision Zero Billboard Campaign — With Little Proof that Such Things Work
The mayor decides to spend $4 million on public education — money that one activist called "a waste" and whose utility the Department of Transportation could not provide.
May 3, 2022
Mayor Says He’ll Act on Reckless Drivers, But Leaves Out the ‘How’
HIzzoner said he would use his octopine enforcement arms to "find [reckless drivers] proactively, and get them off the streets." Details, however, have not been provided.
April 27, 2022
Mayor Adams Puts Nearly $1 Billion Into Street Safety
The Street Master Plan gets a much-needed boost.
April 23, 2022
Monday’s Headlines: Adams’s 100 Days Edition
The weekend was filled with anodyne report card stories timed to the artificial benchmark of Mayor Adams's 100th day in office on Sunday. We break it down, plus provide other news.
April 11, 2022
DOT May (May?!) Fund the Streets Master Plan For This Year, But Advocates Want More
Pols and advocates are demanding that the city actually fund the long-awaited Streets Master Plan, which requires scores of new miles of protected bike lanes and bus lanes, cleaner sidewalks, and car-free streets.
March 17, 2022
SEE IT! Mayor Adams Visits 34th Avenue — But His Plans for ‘Gold Standard’ Open Street Remain Unclear
But Council Member Shekar Krishnan, who lobbied Adams for the conversion from road to resource, is optimistic that the mayor gets it.
February 20, 2022
Wednesday’s Headlines: Honeymoon is Over Edition
Mayor Adams claimed on Tuesday that the vaunted New York City press corps was covering him wrong because they're all White. Plus other news.
February 16, 2022
Mayor Adams Says He Didn’t Give the Order to Erase Fort Greene Open Street
So a neighborhood mystery persists: How could the Willoughby Avenue open street be there one day and not the next?
February 11, 2022
