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Mayor de Blasio's efforts to curtail placard corruption all have failed ignominiously.

NYPD Bombshell: New ‘All Agency’ Policy on Placard Abuse Coming Soon

By Eve Kessler | Dec 17, 2021 | No Comments

The dying de Blasio administration will apparently make one last effort to curb illegal use of parking certificates.

Friday’s Headlines: Covid News is No News Edition

By Streetsblog | Dec 17, 2021 | No Comments

It was a bit of a slow news day — possibly because everyone in the media either has the omicron variant or is working from home because someone else in the office has it. But we found some items for our daily roundup.

An illustration from the 1890s shows a healthy contingent of cyclists on Riverside Drive. Image: Courtesy Evan Friss

Op-Ed: Bike Booms Come and Go, So Mayor Adams Must Make Transformative Change

By Evan Friss | Dec 17, 2021 | No Comments

Gotham's incoming chief executive is inheriting the city's longest-running cycling boom. Will he seize the moment?

The History of a Movement, Part VI: Remembrance and Hope

By Charles Komanoff | Dec 17, 2021 | No Comments

In this penultimate chapter, one former Right of Way volunteer says, “I was very fortunate to have had that experience — utterly convinced, beyond the least shadow of a doubt, that we were doing the right thing."

E-biker Borkot Ullah (inset) was killed last year on E. Houston Street. The protected bike lane the city is installing must encompass the entire length of the street, says a resident of the area. Image: Streetsblog

Driver Who Was Fleeing Cops is Charged for Killing Delivery Worker Borkot Ullah

By Gersh Kuntzman | Dec 16, 2021 | No Comments

The hit-and-run driver who killed a delivery worker in Manhattan in July is facing 15 years in prison for the fatal crash — one caused partly as a result of police chase, prosecutors announced on Thursday.

Buses stuck in traffic are a de Blasio legacy.

Thursday’s Headlines: A Gaslighting Mayor We Won’t Miss Edition

By Streetsblog | Dec 16, 2021 | No Comments

Our old man editor finally got a question in at Mayor de Blasio's press-conference-by-phone yesterday — and was promptly condescended to. Plus, other news from yesterday.