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The community board supports Mayor Mamdani's plan for protected bike lanes on 31st Street in Astoria.
A state judge has ruled that every red-light ticket written to a cyclist under the state's vehicle and traffic law since 2019 is bogus. The city legalized the practice of biking through a red light on a pedestrian 'walk' signal, yet NYPD cops have been wrongly writing tickets for cyclists who go through the 'red' on the walk signal.
The registry, Ariola said, would go a long way toward protecting New York's animals by allowing rescues and other agencies to quickly search the names of potential adoption applicants, and prevent any sale or adoption by people who are known to cause harm to animals.
"If we can get more folks off all the roads and their personal vehicles and use the safer service which our stats show, at least in our service in the cities where we operate, we are contributing to less crashes," Anthony Perez, Waymo's northeast policy manager, stated.
MTA workers are illegally parking on sidewalks outside a transit complex in Astoria, with some leaving MTA-branded high-visibility vests on their dashboards, seemingly to avoid tickets.
To address the affordability crisis, we must be proactive and bold in building more affordable housing, lowering skyrocketing health care costs, and enacting universal childcare.
The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) took Cove Club Condominium to court last week, arguing that if a judge doesn't grant it access to the condo, it won't be able to install critical flood walls and underground drainage structures around Battery Park City that could help prevent Hurricane Sandy-esque damage in the future.
Campaigner Aysha Hawcutt stated that residents were 'not anti-homes', but believed the Adlington plan was 'the wrong proposal in the wrong place'. She expressed pride in the community's resilience against the development threats.
The drum we started beating on Monday morning - that pedestrians and people in wheelchairs are treated like garbage whenever it snows in this town - was still pounding out fat disco beats all through Tuesday. First, we couldn't stop watching this Reddit video, which is like the Zapruder film of all the ways that pedestrians (and conscientious property owners who do their best to meet their shoveling responsibilities) are fucked: