Sign up for THE CITY Scoop, our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. While Staten Island awaits a 4.5-mile seawall and Lower Manhattan plans for a $1.3 billion berm, rebuilding is on tap for parts of Brooklyn still vulnerable to rising waters. The city Department of Housing […]
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Mayor Declares Bicycle ‘Emergency’ While Prior Safety Plan Stalls
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 […]