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Renderings were presented to Community Board 8 this week, showing the pedestrian-only space planned for the Queensboro Bridge s south outer roadway that is currently shared with cyclists. (NYC DOT)
UPPER EAST SIDE, NY An Upper East Side community board got its first glimpse this week at the soon-to-be-installed bike lanes across the Queensboro Bridge, which were announced this winter after years of demands by advocates.
As it stands, the bridge s north outer roadway is shared by pedestrians and cyclists, a claustrophobic setup that has led to numerous crashes. Safe-streets advocates, elected officials and the Upper East Side s Community Board 8 had called on the city to ease the congestion by opening up the bridge s south outer roadway currently reserved for cars to either cyclists or pedestrians.
New York City Council Passes Bill to Make Open Streets Program Permanent
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Manhattan, New York, USA - May 10, 2020: NYPD officers hand out PPE face masks to young people skateboarding in Washington square park to help prevent the Covid-19 virus in New York. (Image: iStock/nycshooter)
In New York City, a popular program entitled Open Streets, which was originally a temporary initiative, is a step closer to becoming a permanent fixture for the streetsin the five boroughs.
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AMNY, the New York City Council has voted to pass a bill that will make the Open Streets program a permanent part of New York City. Last week, in a vote that favored the change, the tally was 39-8 and the legislation is now headed to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s desk, where he is expected to sign it into law.
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday released a $98.6 billion executive budget proposal for the 2022 fiscal year, relying on new federal funds to massively increase spending aimed at spurring the city’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
The mayor’s “recovery budget” invests deeply in New Yorkers, he said at his budget presentation from City Hall, with resources going towards fair student funding, summer youth programs, early childhood education, job creation, gun violence prevention, mental health services, nonprofit community groups, small businesses, and more.
The executive budget reflects a $6.3 billion increase in spending compared with the mayor’s preliminary budget proposal released in January, when the administration was uncertain about the level of federal stimulus that would be delivered by the federal government and prepared for the worst-case scenario. But the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act approved by President Biden and the Democratic Congress in Ma
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New York City used to be an early adopter of new transportation modes. In the late eighteen-sixties, New Yorkers took up the velocipede, a primitive version of the bicycle. Half a century later, the city embraced the automobile, and eventually made free parking available for the fossil-fuel-burning machines a remarkable giveaway of expensive public space that many carless citizens would like back now. New York also engineered and built a subway system, above ground and below ground, which, before the
Covid-19 pandemic hit, carried five and a half million riders every weekday a landmark of American people-moving the city may never reach again, if remote work is here to stay.
Incel teen held without bail on federal bomb threat charge By LARRY NEUMEISTER, AP
NEW YORK (AP) A teenager who prosecutors say touts himself as subscribing to an online subculture that has been linked to violent attacks was arrested Wednesday on a bomb threat charge.
Nineteen-year-old Malik Sanchez, known online as “Smooth Sanchez,” was arrested on a charge of conveying false and misleading information and hoaxes after he allegedly made a hoax threat in February to detonate a bomb at a restaurant in Manhattan’s Flatiron neighborhood. He was ordered held without bail.
In a criminal complaint in Manhattan federal court, investigators said Sanchez on Feb. 13 posted a video online showing him approaching two women seated outside the restaurant and telling them that a bomb would go off in two minutes.