Thursday’s Headlines: Super Sidewalks Edition
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You may have enjoyed Kevin Duggan's coverage yesterday of the city's new "super sidewalks" strategy, but check out the movie version! Plus other news.
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Manhattan Community Board Demands Stricter Sanitation Rules for Apartments
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Community Board 4 wrote to Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch to outline a raft of new regulations that could curtail New York's infamous "5 o'clock shadow" — and unanimously offered the neighborhood as a laboratory for change.
Broad Coalition Demands Mayor Adams Properly Manage New York’s Busiest Places: The Curb
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It's a popular front against "chaos at the curb."
Advocates: The City’s ‘Clean Curbs’ Pilot is Too Small
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The limited scale of Clean Curbs — basically, the piloting of off-the-shelf storage sheds for bags — hampers the city's goals because it does not require the total rethinking of garbage-collection methods, which is what the city ultimately needs.
Self-Driving Car Industry, Promising Safety, Pushes Back on DOT Plan to Regulate Testing
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The proposed rules would make NYC "inhospitable" to life-saving autonomous vehicle technology, reps for tech giants said at a hearing on Wednesday.
Re-Emergence of ‘Broadway Vision’ Plan Startles Some
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Pedestrianization at Union Square gains impetus from a business-improvement district — not the DOT.