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 Charles Lane
The report, produced in collaboration with City Councilmember Gale Brewer’s office, the Times Square Alliance, the Central Park Conservancy and the New York Pedicab Alliance, lays out eight recommendations. LINK: Advocates push overhaul of NYC pedicab industry
By Sophia Lebowitz
Delivery workers can now take the required e-bike safety training course that was a key element in the Mamdani administration’s announcement last month that it would stop hitting cyclists with criminal summonses for minor traffic infractions. LINK: A mandated safety training for delivery workers in New York City is now live…
By Gus Saltonstall
A collection of bike racks was installed this month in front of Fairway Market on the Upper West Side.
Four racks are now stationed near the corner of West 74th and Broadway, in front of the popular grocer. When West Side Rag visited the store on Wednesday morning, all four of the racks had bikes attached to them, and additional bikes had also been placed in a straight line alongside the racks.
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By Sophia Lebowitz
Upper West City Council Member Gale Brewer suggested that she supports a long-sought protected bike lane on the 79th Street Transverse through Central Park… LINK: Central Park Transevrse
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