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fromHoodline
1 week ago

NYPD Seeks Suspects In Brooklyn Robbery Pattern Targeting Teens

A group suspected of multiple street robberies targeting teenagers and preteens across southern Brooklyn neighborhoods in February used motorized scooters or e-bikes as getaway vehicles and displayed weapons including knives and machetes.
fromStreetsblog
4 months ago

The 'Problem' With E-Bikes? The Super Fast Illegal Ones - Streetsblog New York City

At its worst - like in last week's horrific fatal crash on Flushing Avenue - pedestrians and cyclists are injured or killed. Setting aside that car drivers cause virtually all the injuries and deaths on our streets, every time there is rare crash involving an illegal e-bike, naysayers capitalize by conflating them with safe, legal e-bikes to further an anti-bike agenda. And Mayor Adams has added to the confusion, launching a criminal crackdown on legal e-bikes that has ensnared all kinds of cyclists,
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