By Lucy Rice, The Spirit
When one Auxiliary police officer at the National Night Out Against Crime for the Central Park Precinct was asked what residents were concerned about, he had one answer: “the bikes, the bikes, the bikes.” LINK: At Central Park Precinct Night Out Against Crime, Police Hear Concerns About Bikes
By Jacqueline Gordon, Chelsea News
Fifteen years after NY city council banned the practice of using adhesive stickers to warn vehicles violating alternate side parking rules, the stickers are back, neon green this time. LINK: Shame Stickers for Cars Blocking Street Sweepers Make Controversial Comeback
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 Kelly Kennedy, FOX 5 News
New York City is now slapping big, neon green stickers on some cars that are illegally parked. Council Member Gale Brewer pushed to bring back the stickers to single-out drivers who break alternate side parking rules. LINK: NYC slaps stickers on illegally parked cars
By Dominique Jack, WPIX 11
Be sure to move that vehicle for alternate side parking or risk getting something that may be more frustrating than a ticket. LINK: The contentious stickers from the New York City Department of Sanitation returned to city streets on Tuesday
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 Jacqueline Gordon, The Spirit
A recent accident in Central Park, in which a 46-year-old runner was struck down by an e-bike, is the latest in a series of collisions which advocates say demonstrate underreporting and a lack of enforcement by NY officials. LINK: Woman in Coma After Being Struck by E-Bike in Central Park; Renews Calls for Ban
By Jacqueline Gordon, The Spirit
A 46-year-old jogger identified as “Jean” has been in a coma since July 7 after she was struck from behind by an e-biker in Central Park. LINK: https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/woman-in-coma-after-being-struck-by-e-bike-in-central-park-renews-calls-for-ban-XI6039189
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