By Jim McDermott, W42ST
A string of fatal crashes — including the July 30 death of Hell’s Kitchen resident Doreen Meyers — has prompted the City Council to launch a broad review of how New York regulates electric bikes, scooters and other micromobility devices. LINK: public hearing on a wide-ranging package of proposed legislation will be held on September
By Brittany Kriegstein, Gothamist
New Yorkers who don’t move their cars for street cleaning will once again face the penalty of bright green stickers stuck to their windows. LINK: NYC says they’re not ‘shame stickers’
By Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times
Seven minutes after street sweeping began on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Tuesday morning, sanitation workers and the local city councilwoman hit the streets to deliver justice.
“Move your car!” the councilwoman, Gale Brewer, shouted as she slapped a large neon-green, shield-shaped sticker on a Jeep Grand Cherokee.
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By Spectrum News (NY1)
Drivers who fail to move their vehicles for street cleaning will once again find warning stickers on their windows.
The Department of Sanitation began placing the new violation stickers Tuesday on the Upper West Side, with City Council Member Gale Brewer and DSNY Commissioner Gregory Anderson helping place the first notices. LINK: Street cleaning stickers return after 12-year hiatus
By Miranda Levingston, Patch
The New York City Council voted Tuesday to approve legislation sponsored by Upper West Side Council Member Gale Brewer that allows the New York City Department of Sanitation to place large, highlighter-colored warning stickers on vehicles that fail to move during alternate side parking hours. LINK: Stickers will soon be donning the windows of cars
By Nicole Rosenthal and Georgett Roberts, NY Post
Fluorescent “shame stickers” are set to make a comeback in the Big Apple for the first time in over a decade — to bully drivers who ignore alternate side parking rules. LINK: Stickers are back after years long ban
By Gersh Kuntzman, Streetsblog NYC
Council Member Gale Brewer’s bill to bring back the brightly colored “This Vehicle Violates NYC Parking Regulations” stickers from their decade-long hiatus was a mere fingernail in the Council’s handshake agreement on the budget with Mayor Mamdani, but it’s worth cheering. LINK: Council Member Gale Brewer wants to stick it to selfish car owners.
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By Judith Goldiner and Gale Brewer
Intro. 303 does not solve the inequities in home care; it destabilizes the entire system and puts both workers and the New Yorkers who rely on them at risk. LINK: A well-intentioned bill could collapse NYC’s home care system
By Julia Shipley
Upper West Side City Councilmember Gale Brewer stood on the corner of Columbus Avenue and West 85th Street – where Penny the chihuahua nearly died – and told a crowd of concerned pet lovers about her new legislative package. LINK: New Legislation Announced To Help Pet Owners
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