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• Bloomberg: “I Don’t Think Anybody Would Have the Nerve to Roll Back the Bicycle Lanes” (CapNY)
• Ticket-Fixing Beneficiaries Say Ticket-Fixing Isn’t a Problem (News)
• Bronx Residents Clamor for Bike-Share and Bike Lanes (DNA)
• With Eric Adams on Shirley Huntley’s Wire, Tish James May Switch to Brooklyn Beep Race (News)
• Reason: NTSB Study of Curbside Buses Overstated Their Safety Risks
• MTA IG: Agency Has Not Sufficiently Inspected Elevated Subway Structures (Post, 2nd Avenue Sagas)
• WSJ Covers Water Street Revitalization Efforts, Including New Plazas
• Bklyn Paper Writes Up the Mayoral Candidates’ Cluelessness on PPW
• Proposal Persists to Merge Bridge Authority With Thruway (Times Herald-Record)
• UWS Rental Car Garage Expected to Become Condo Development (Crain’s)
• Brian Lehrer Talks Bicycling in Amsterdam With Author Pete Jordan (WNYC)

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• Most Mayoral Candidates Ignorant of Public Process That Produced the PPW Bike Lane (CapNY)
• CPC Goes For 15-Year MSG Permit as Bloomberg Climbs Aboard (2nd Avenue Sagas, Crain’s 1, 2)
• Bloomberg Needles MTA on 2nd Avenue Subway, Corrupt Albany Pols About Congestion Pricing (News)
• Driver Seriously Injures Two Children Riding On Bicycle in Williamsburg (WNBC)
• Times Square Retail Rents Jump 55 Percent Over Last Year (Real Deal)
• Atlantic Cities Allays Fears of New Yorkers Freaking Out About Bike-Share
• Slow Zone Application Moves Forward for Midwood (Ditmas Park Corner)
• Bklyn Paper Blows the Lid Off E-ZPass Traffic Monitoring Story… From 2009 (NY1)
• What Would Be the Perfect NYC Transit App? (2nd Avenue Sagas)
• A Look Inside the Brooklyn High School of Automotive Trades and Its Driver Ed Program (Brownstoner)
• Turn Left on Red? It’s Legal On This NYC Street (CapNY)
• Damned PPW Bike Lane (Bklyn Paper)

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• Family of Ryo Oyamada, Pedestrian Killed by NYPD, Takes City to Federal Court (Gothamist)
• DOT Won’t Confirm Citi Bike Launch Date (AMNY); Post Runs With It; News 12 “Reports” Delay
• Companies Race to Get In on NYC Bike-Share App Market (TransNat)
• See This DNAinfo Piece for a Preview of Future Bike-Share Reportage
• City Says Hail Apps Not Technically Illegal, Injunction Or No (News)
• DOT Gets Fed Funds to Fix Carroll Street Bridge, Where Schumer Bikes “All the Time” (Bklyn Paper)
• NYT Sits In at Bike Safety Course, Runs Zinger-Free Story About It
• Search for Suspect Who Escaped NYPD Custody Shuts Subway Lines for Hours (NYT)
• Lease Negotiations Between City and Hunts Point Produce Market at Standstill (Crain’s)
• Gelinas: NYC Shouldn’t Be Borrowing Money to Maintain Bridges (Post)

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• Crain’s: Citi Bike to Launch Memorial Day Weekend, and Some Businesses Are Pumped
• Bike-Share Sense (WNBC, Guardian, MTR) and Nonsense (Post, News)
• 7 Year-Old Struck by SUV Driver on Gun Hill Road in Norwood, Bronx (News 12)
• Woman Injured in Clinton Hill Bike Crash (DNA)
• Driver Careens Through Brighton Beach Shop; Bklyn Daily Calls It “Vehicular Mannequin Slaughter”
• Placard Parking Puts Squeeze on Street Spaces in St. George (Advance)
• Scofflaws in Williamsburg, College Point Make Their Own Parking Regulation (Times Ledger, Post)
• Jamaica Surface Parking Lot Set to Be Replaced With Department Store, Plus Parking Garage (News)
• West 44th Street Residents Upset That Street Is Used as De Facto Bus Parking Lot (Post)
• Crain’s Profiles NBBL Lawyer Randy Mastro; And NY Mag Explains Mastro’s Taxi E-Hail Suit
• Stringer, Kavanagh Unveil Blueprint for East River Waterfront Below 34th Street (Crain’s, Post)
• Developers Create Apps at MTA “Hackathon” Event (NY1)

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• Drivers Injure Two 12 Year-Old Boys — One on Foot, One on Bike — In Separate Brooklyn Crashes (Post)
• Baruch College Students Make Use of New East 25th Street Plaza (NYT)
• Scenes From CB 2′s ”I’m Not Against Bike-Share, But…” Kvetch-Fest Last Night (DNA, NY1, Villager 1, 2)
• Lhota: “I’m All For the Bike-Share Program,” But Bike-Share Station Sitings Are “Insensitive” (WNYC)
• A Thoughtful Look at NYC’s Initial Reaction to Bike-Share Stations From the Financial Times
• Sorry, New York Post: You’re Not Too Fat For Bike-Share (Atlantic)
• 108th Precinct, Where Tenzin Drudak Was Killed By Out-Of-Control Driver, Gets New Leadership (DNA)
• Pay a Lot For Gas After Sandy? AG Eric Schneiderman Is On It (News, WSJ, NY1)
• DOT: Pulaski Bridge Has Capacity For Bike Lane; Engineering Study Up Next (Brownstoner)
• Rosedale Little League Wants To Curb Speeding Near Park After Driver Hits 7 Year-Old (Times Ledger)
• Central Park West Anti-Cyclist Assault Case Dismissed For Missing 3-Month Trial Window (News)

• Quinn, Vacca, and Greenfield May Have Milked the Parking Thing for All It’s Worth (CapNY, NYT)
• Downtown Express and DNA Take a Stab at Balanced Bike-Share Coverage
• Post Running on Fumes; And the Rest: Gothamist, Fox, AMNY, CBS, NY1
• State Supreme Court Justice Issues Hail App Injunction (CapNY, NYT)
• Straphangers: G Train Had Fewest Delays in 2012, Delays Up System-Wide (NYT, CapNY)
• Staten Island SBS Camera Enforcement Begins at End of May (Advance)
• Manhattan Taxi Driver Who Rammed Men With Cab Acquitted of Attempted Murder (Post)
• Dirt Bike Rider Rammed by Police Found Guilty of Reckless Driving (Post)
• You Don’t Have Halloran to Kick Around Anymore (Politicker)
• Joe Lhota Rails Against Bike Lanes, Bike Share, Residential Zoning, Typewriters (Bklyn Paper)

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• NY Mag: “Andrew Cuomo Very Excited About His New MTA Chief, Whatshisface”
• DOT Touts Projected $36 Million Economic Boost, 170 New Jobs From Citi Bike (Crain’s)
• West Village Bike-Share Rack Trimmed by Four Docks (WNYC); News: ”City Is Starting to Backpedal”
• JSK: “I Would Like to See Penn Station Fixed” and “a Fully Funded MTA Capital Program” (Crain’s)
• GOP Forum: Lhota Pins Toll Hikes on Budget Raids (News 1, 2); All Candidates Pro-Bike Lane (Post)
• Driver Hits Elderly Woman in 4th Avenue Crosswalk in Bay Ridge; Victim Likely to Die (Bklyn Daily)
• MTR: With Trans-Hudson Rail Improvements Years Away, P.A. Needs Bus Capacity Increases Soon
• Tonight: MTA Hearing on Bus Service Changes Between Woodside, Jackson Heights and LGA (DNA)
• AMNY: MTA Should Put Unexpected $40 Million Into Subway Service Restoration and Expansion
• Gothamist Takes Up Cause of Manhattanites Who Don’t See No Parking Notices, Have to Pay Tickets
• Uber Launches NYC’s First E-Hail Taxi App (NYT)
• Adventures in Street Courtesy From Improv Everywhere (Gothamist) and NYC DOT (NYT)

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• West Village NIMBYs Sue for Removal of Bank Street Bike-Share Station (Post, DNA)
• CM Andy King Backs Co-Op City Bike Lanes to Reduce Motorist Speeding, and NY1 Flubs the Hook
• NYPD Personnel Shifts Bring New Commanding Officers to 6th and 10th Precincts (DNA)
• Child Hospitalized When Van Driver Hits School Bus and Building at McGuinness and Greenpoint (DNA)
• Civil Jury Finds Staten Island Man Mostly Responsible for Being Hit by MTA Bus Driver (Advance)
• Longwood Merchants Say Elevated Tracks and Low Lighting Shut Down Street After Dark (DNA)
• Cap’n Transit Makes a Case for Reactivating the LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch
• Looks Like the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Could Use Some Bike Parking (@brendan_gray)
• NYC Venture Capitalist Charlie O’Donnell: The Bike Thing Is Happening, Like It or Not
• Damn Bike Share (Gothamist)

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• TZB Transit Panel Focuses on Transfer Between Buses and Metro-North (Times Herald-Record)
• Kicked Out of TZB Project, Transit Scrounges for Funding (LoHud, News 12, Times Herald-Record)
• Anti-Bike-Share Nonsense Continues (NYT, Patch, Gothamist); NYT Smackdown at Bklyn Spoke
• Julio Acevedo: “I Was Not Speeding…It Was An Accident; Nothing More” (WABC)
• Smith-9th Street Station Reopens, Late and Without ADA Access (Observer, WNYC, Gothamist)
• Notary Public Biz Eschews Rented Storefront for Cheap, High-Visibility Parking Space (Post)
• NYPD Ticket Agent Spews Profanity After Getting Parking Ticket; Flees, Runs Red Light (DNA)
• Queens Civic Leader, Killed Crossing Street by Driver, Memorialized With Walking Trail (Times Ledger)
• City to Bid Out 3,100 Yellow Bus Routes in Effort to Trim Bloated Costs (News)
• A History of High Bridge, Connecting Upper Manhattan and the Bronx (NYT)
• New Speed Humps in Ditmas Park (Ditmas Park Corner)
• 5 Boro Bike Tour Will Prohibit Bags in Wake of Boston Bombings (NY1, Gothamist, DNA, SMBIVA)

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• Cuomo Announces Sweeping Transit Upgrades: 30 More Subway Stations Have Wi-Fi Service (NYT)
• Impassioned City Council Votes to Impose Fines for E-Bike Possession (Advance)
• Pershing Square, Outside Grand Central, to Become Permanent Pedestrian Plaza (NYT)
• Community Board 12 Endorses Washington Heights Plaza (DNA)
• Stanley Williams, 50, Killed Trying to Cross Harlem River Drive (DNA)
• Three Hurt in SoHo Curb-Jump Crash; NYPD: “No Criminality” (DNA)
• Opponents Say East 91st Street Waste Station Would Be Dangerous to Kids (DNA)
• CapNY Talks With Jerry Nadler About the Long History of the Cross-Harbor Freight Tunnel
• Post Can’t Decide What It Hates More: “Rogue” Cyclists or Traffic Etiquette Program
• Manhattan Street Vendors Protest Bike-Share Stations, Refrain From Vandalizing (Gothamist)
• NIMBYism a Time-Honored Tradition on PPW (Curbed), But Kips Bay Is a Contender (DNA)

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