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UPS Tops List of Bus-Lane Blockers Caught on Camera Last Year
Here’s what brown can do for you: turn commuting on the country’s pokiest buses into even more of a slog. UPS trucks were flagged more than 25,000 times last year for obstructing New York City bus lanes, MTA data reveals. That’s nearly twice as many as Amazon, whose 12,975 violations ranked second. The images of […]
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How Guadalajara Killed the Paper Permit and What NYC Can Learn From It
This is Borrow and Steal, a monthly interview series from our partners at Vital City profiling evidence-backed urban policy ideas from around the world and the practitioners who have translated them into reality. Sign up for their newsletter. New York City has a permitting problem. Businesses and developers can wait months to obtain approval to […]
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Mamdani’s ‘Economic Justice’ Deputy Wants a Bigger Pie
New York’s first-ever deputy mayor for economic justice says her job is to grow the economy by delivering on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s agenda for helping those who need it the most. In: Affordable housing, free childcare and city-owned grocery stores. Out: Billions in tax breaks and incentives to big developers and employers, unless they improve […]
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Carl Wilson Defeats Mamdani’s Choice in Council Special Election
Carl Wilson is on track to win the special election to the City Council district representing the West Village, Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen, and other parts of the west side of Manhattan on Tuesday, with a strong lead over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s choice for the seat. After one round of ranked-choice voting tabulations, Wilson led his […]
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Hochul Refuses NYC Tax Move in Budget Showdown
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday shot down a request by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin to change a tax credit to help fill a $5.4 billion city budget deficit. Mamdani and Menin had asked state lawmakers to authorize changes to the pass-through entity tax, or PTET, which allows some business people […]
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