The huge information this week will probably be Mayor Adams’s journey to Albany on Tuesday to foyer to get state legislators to reauthorize or develop metropolis management of public colleges, the subsidy for inexpensive housing (aka 421-a) and, as we prefer to say, most essential, pace enforcement cameras.
Gothamist had a superb primer on the problem of “home rule,” which is state constitution-speak for letting the town run the stuff that solely cities actually fear about: native colleges, native growth and native roads. Home rule is just about useless on pace cameras (as we reported first final week), so Adams will probably be pushing lawmakers to cross a invoice by Sen. Andrew Gounardes to at the least reauthorize them for 3 extra years (the invoice consists of different provisions that in all probability gained’t make the ultimate draft, judging from our conversations final week with Assembly Members and Senators however nonetheless).
In different information:
- Ladies and gents, the GOAT on a motorcycle (um, however why does Tom Brady want an electrical Citi Bike? Stars — they’re not like us):
BEST MORNING EVER. pic.twitter.com/TcqZmLoJaQ
— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) May 14, 2022
- Meanwhile, whereas Tom Brady was having fun with an e-bike experience, his ugly cousin Steve Cuozzo, pulled out the “angry man yells at cloud” bit for one more NY Post rampage in opposition to bikes, on this case, electrical bikes, which Cuozzo stated needs to be banned outright. A person is entitled to his opinion, however there are lots of factual errors within the piece, plus errors of omission, together with not offering this video to point out the corresponding damaging energy of an electrical automotive:
WATCH: Security digital camera video in Ohio captured the second a dashing Tesla crashed into the Columbus Convention Center. https://t.co/tM9WiHnZNp pic.twitter.com/giWIOYz10r
— NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) May 13, 2022
- The Daily News additionally coated the killing of a Bronx pedestrian by a reckless van driver on Saturday, although all day, our outdated man editor was attempting to get somebody on the paper to understand how horrible their web site is:
I’m simply going to place this on social as a result of nobody I do know at @NYDailyNews appears to care that the large metro part story a couple of husband grieving his killed spouse (left) nonetheless hyperlinks to the 12-hour outdated squib (proper), not the function. Maybe somebody displays social can inform somebody? pic.twitter.com/6vODOsqJfV
— Gersh Kuntzman (@GershKuntzman) May 16, 2022
- Assembly candidate Tony Simone is the most recent Hells Kitchen resident to complain that the governor’s plan for the Penn Station redevelopment is flawed. (Gotham Gazette)
- Regional Plan Association has achieved one other survey of metro space New Yorkers, and located that crime and the price of dwelling are prime issues (although it’s unclear how these issues broke down for metropolis residents vs. out-of-towners). But nonetheless, one factor actually caught our eye: Residents stay involved about local weather change. “More than three in four [area] residents (76 percent) supports requiring buildings to lower their greenhouse gas emissions, including 79 percent of New York City residents,” the survey stated. Sounds like that’s a fairly sturdy mandate for car-reduction methods, too.
- We wager these new Sanitation Department electrical avenue sweepers are quiet:
According to ?@NYCSanitation? that is the primary ever electrical avenue cleaner. Pretty cool. Vehicle quantity 001! ?@TransAlt? pic.twitter.com/FD1xSbBSRd
— Janet Liff (@JanetLiff) May 15, 2022
- Federal officers are lastly speaking up the one factor that may cease the chop: Federal laws to forestall helicopters from disturbing the peace. (amNY)
- Mayor Adams says the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will probably be simply positive, in order that’s why he redirected cash away from its upkeep for now. (amNY)
- Another motive to ditch the automotive? Auto theft is up. (NY Post)
- The Post had a tiny bit extra in regards to the man who was run over and killed by an MTA bus driver on Staten Island.
- And, lastly, Riders Alliance spokesman Danny Pearlstein noticed one of many DOT’s new “drive safe” adverts on a bus shelter the opposite day, and famous that the advert was pointed in a manner that it couldn’t be seen by drivers. Doug Gordon offered the chaser:
For the price of operating this advert, the town may have painted a curb extension and put a planter on it to decelerate turning drivers. https://t.co/tSsGuksUH4
— Doug Gordon (@BrooklynSpoke) May 13, 2022