Additional reporting by Clifford Michel, Kazi Awal and Savannah Jacobson The deaths of three city cyclists in less than a week — and 15 so far this year — led Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday night to declare an “emergency.” “We’re going to do a full-court press to stop it,” de Blasio said in […]
Polly Trottenberg
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Cyclists and Pedestrians Seek Their Own Paths on the Queensboro Bridge
The Queensboro Bridge path shared by thousands of cyclists and pedestrians is a lot like the rest of the city: very cramped. Joshua Arfield, a legal assistant, found that out the hard way earlier this month. The 49-year-old Jackson Heights man broke his right clavicle and elbow after losing control of his bicycle while trying […]