YouTube took down a video of Rep. Nicole Malliotakis unconditionally without warning or explanation.
The video consists of her news conference in which she announced her
lawsuit against the Democrat mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, for
implementing a vaccination passport system in the city.
YouTube reinstated the video shortly after being contacted by Reclaim The Net.
Following De Blasio’s order for a COVID-19 Vaccine Passport mandate, Malliotakis has joined the fight against the affront to civil liberties.
The mayor wants to make it illegal for anyone without a vaccine
passport to work at or patronize gyms, entertainment venues, and indoor
restaurants.
Rep. Malliotakis issued a statement concerning the lawsuit challenging New York City’s vaccination regulations.
“The Mayor’s vaccine mandate is an overreach of government,” said the
Representative for Brooklyn/Staten Island . “The government should not
be imposing such a mandate on its people and small business owners.”
“We have received calls from countless individuals that we represent –
both vaccinated and unvaccinated – who are concerned about sharing
personal health information with individuals they don’t know, or fearing
they will be left out of society because their doctors recommended they
do not get vaccinated due to other medical issues.”
“It is beyond ridiculous that the government is mandating these
already struggling small business owners to be the city’s vaccine
police.”
Today a call came in for an injured bald Eagle on Interstate 81 in Jefferson County. Trooper Angela Gilchrist responded and was able to help ENCON officers in saving the eagle. pic.twitter.com/oRb6BsdvjW
Keeping on the theme of censorship of government servants, the New York State Police recently posted a story of one of their troopers holding a majestic bald eagle they rescued on their twitter account and QC told me that if you try to post it on facebook it gets labeled as spam.
In fact, if you repost anything on facebook from their twitter account, it will be labeled as spam anyway.
Could Cuomo's former aide Dani Lever, now working for Facebook and who aided Mario's Son's quest to discredit Lindsay Boylan, have something to do with this?
Resorts World New York City officially opened the Hyatt Regency JFK Airport hotel to guests last Friday.
The
ribbon cutting for the new hotel featured executives from Genting,
which owns the hotel and casino, and Hyatt, as well as elected officials
and community leaders.
“We are excited to debut the Hyatt Regency
JFK Airport at Resorts World New York and invite guests to experience
our intuitive hospitality as they relax and recharge after a day of
gaming, dining and entertainment,” said Brian Reynolds, senior vice
president of Resorts World NYC.
The
Genting Group made waves when it made clear last year that it planned
to push ahead with its plans to open a $400 million, 400-room hotel at
the Queens Resorts World location while the hotel industry was in the
middle of a bleak market outlook at the apex of the pandemic.
Queens Borough President Donovan Richards called the opening a huge step forward in Queens’ comeback.
“We
couldn’t be more excited to welcome the world-class Hyatt at Resorts
World NYC — as well as the job opportunities it’s created — to The
World’s Borough. Further proof that Queens is open for business and
leading the way,” he tweeted.
While I am passionate about the use of public transit, there’s no better way to experience our city, burn calories, and minimize our carbon footprint than riding a bike. #FBF#bikenycpic.twitter.com/uepCl4G6Yc
The state Assembly won’t pursue impeachment charges against Gov.
Andrew M. Cuomo once his resignation takes effect, Assembly Speaker Carl
Heastie announced Friday.
Heastie (D-Bronx),
in an interview with Newsday, said an Assembly investigation found
"credible evidence" against Cuomo and likely would have resulted in
impeachment charges.
But the primary
purpose of the impeachment proceeding was to determine whether the
governor should stay in office following sexual harassment claims and
other allegations regarding actions that Cuomo took during the pandemic,
Heastie said.
The governor’s
decision to step down, announced Tuesday, effectively makes the question
moot. Cuomo's resignation is to take effect Aug. 24.
Heastie said another driver in the decision to "suspend" proceedings
is that the state constitution doesn’t clearly "authorize the
Legislature to impeach and remove an elected official who is no longer
in office."
"We don’t believe we do"
have the authority to continue once Cuomo departs, Heastie said. The
speaker added that he understood and agreed with Cuomo accusers who say
the governor should be held accountable, but impeachment wouldn’t be an
available avenue once the governor leaves.
Legislators would not have finished their investigation before Aug. 24.
Instead, the
Assembly will do the "next best thing": turning over its evidence to
various law enforcement agencies investigating Cuomo, Heastie said.
The attorney
general has been looking into Cuomo’s $5.1 million book deal, Heastie
noted. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the nursing home
data. And prosecutors in five counties, including Nassau, have said they
are looking into alleged sexual harassment incidents.
"The thing
is, the federal government, the ... [attorney general] and local ...
[prosecutors] are doing their own investigations," Heastie said. "We
have not finished gathering evidence and we didn’t want to interfere
with their investigations. So the next best thing to do is to turn over
our evidence so they can conclude" their investigations.
Because of those
other ongoing investigations, the Assembly won’t make the evidence
publicly available at this time, a Heastie spokesman said.
Cuomo will be gone but nothing will fundamentally change.
From drug money to basketball courts — this year, the NYPD is doing something different with the assets seized from drug dealers.
CBS2’s Ali Bauman got an exclusive look at how police are re-investing some of their funds.
Queensbridge Houses have a brand new basketball court.
“What do you think of the new court?” Bauman asked 10-year-old Troy Evans.
“It’s fire!” Troy said.
But back in June, the court was unrecognizable.
“The ground’s cracked, weeds coming up, the rim is off the side, and
one of the residents said, ‘What do you think the message is to the
people who live here?'” said Chauncey Parker, NYPD deputy commissioner
for community partnerships.
The housing authority doesn’t exactly have the budget to spruce them up.
“We really rely on our city partners for this type of investment,” said Sideya Sherman, NYCHA‘s executive vice president of community engagement and partnerships.
So this summer, the NYPD is renovating basketball courts at 15 city housing developments.
“This is their playground. These basketball courts is their
playground,” said Deputy Inspector Luis Colon, with housing bureau
special projects.
Colon is overseeing the project.
“From a kid that grew up in the Bronx, in the south Bronx, and
actually grew up in one of the housing developments in the Bronx, I
think it’s important that we do improve community relations,” he said.
Starting next week, proof of vaccination will be required in New York
City for some indoor activities, including going out to eat, but not
all restaurants are on board.
“Whether you’re vaccinated or not, you are welcome,” said Mary Josephine Generoso, manager at Pasticceria Rocco’s of Bay Ridge.
There’s a sign of protest in the window of the restaurant, defiant against Mayor Bill de Blasio’s upcoming vaccine mandate.
It reads, “We do not discriminate against ANY customer based on sex,
gender, race, creed, age, vaccinate or unvaccinated. All customers who
wish to patronize are welcome in our establishment.”
“I just do not feel that we’re gonna be able to sit there and ask
customers to show if they’ve been vaccinated or not,” Generoso told
CBS2’s Ali Bauman.
Mayor de Blasio’s
latest initiative requires proof of vaccination to get into a variety of
indoor public spaces, such as restaurants, gyms and performance venues.
Customers
and workers need proof of at least once inoculation shot to be inside,
the new mandate outlines. The move, which de Blasio dubbed the “Key to
NYC Pass,” is an aggressive switch from the mayor’s previous incentives,
which included free museum tickets, free meals and even $100 payments.
“If you want to participate in our society fully, you’ve got to get vaccinated,” de Blasio said Aug 3. “It’s time.”
According
to city Department of Health data, about 73.2 percent of all New York
City adults have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
Children under the age of 12, who are not eligible to get the shot, are
exempt from the new mandate and will be allowed entry into restaurants,
gyms, performance venues and more without proof. De Blasio said he
expects kids from 5 to 11 to become eligible in the next few months.
That
leaves just 26.8 percent of the New York City population, as well as
the fluctuating rate of tourists, who would be barred from indoor
businesses beginning Aug. 16.
The number is low enough that the
mandate doesn’t worry many business owners. Plenty are actually hopeful
that placing restrictions will finally force people into getting the
vaccine.
“It’s a draconian measure that has to be taken,” said
Carl Clay, the founder of the Black Spectrum Theatre Co. The St. Albans
venue had self-imposed the rule on its workers and customers over a
month ago because it was the “right thing to do.”
“Did anybody
have a problem? Not at all,” Clay continued. “I think to anybody who has
any sense of what’s going on around them it makes sense.”
Clay
equated proof of vaccination to having a driver’s license. You can drive
on the road if you have one, but you can’t sit in the driver’s seat
without one.
Other business owners believe the mandate may
actually result in an increase in business — according to already
established Covid-19 guidelines, social distancing within a venue can be
eliminated if all customers and workers are vaccinated.
Theoretically,
Annette Runcie said, restaurateurs can boost sales by packing their
space with vaccinated customers rather than by catering to those who are
not.
“There’s a lot of people who told me they won’t be
comfortable coming out because the infection rate is increasing, so this
will make them feel more secure,” said Runcie, who owns Pa-Nash
Eurosoul in Rosedale.
A four-alarm fire tore through several businesses in Sunnyside Thursday morning.
Flames broke out inside Taiyo Foods, a Japanese market located at
45-08 44th St., at around 7:20 a.m. The fire quickly spread to the four
neighboring businesses housed within the same one-story building, FDNY
officials said.
The fire engulfed the buildings and was upgraded to a four-alarm
blaze within one hour, according to the FDNY. More than 200 firefighters
and EMS personnel reported to the scene.
Firefighters were able to get the flames under control at around 9:15
a.m. Three firefighters suffered non-life-threatening injuries. There
were no other injuries.
A man who was found dead by firefighters following an explosion
inside his Woodside/Elmhurst apartment Tuesday likely killed himself
prior to the massive blast, police said.
Anesti Bulgaretsi, 26, was discovered by firefighters inside a
seventh-floor penthouse apartment, located at 73-01 41 Ave., after an
explosion and subsequent fire ripped through the upper floors of the
building. The damage was so severe that it blew the roof off the
penthouse ceiling and part of the building collapsed.
Police say that Bulgaretsi, who lived in the penthouse near the
Woodside/Elmhurst border, was found in a bathroom tub with
self-inflicted stab wounds to his stomach and wrist. The apartment’s gas
line had been “cut” and matches had been found near his body along with
a knife, police said.
Bulgaretsi was suffering from depression, chronic head pain and had been out of work for two months, the New York Daily News reported. He had been telling people before his death he wanted to return to his native Greece.
What was Kathy thinking holding her first press conference during a scheduled National Emergency Broadcasting test? It wasn't like there were any government issue alerts about it.
But it sure looks like Mario's son's minions are still hanging around to make her look foolish by scheduling this at the absolute wrong time.
Jennifer Vitagliano has been in perpetual pivot mode for over a year
now. Since the start of the pandemic, the owner of the Michelin-starred Musket Room in Manhattan’s SoHo has hatched a delivery menu and a brunch menu to lure new customers and borrowed a 1962 van
from a friend to sell doughnuts and cocktails in front of her
eight-year-old restaurant, which is known for its inventive spin on new
American dishes. Of all the flexes she’s made, playing bouncer has been
the most exhausting.
In early June, after several Covid-19 cases
hit the industry, Vitagliano and her business partners decided that
Musket Room customers who wanted to dine indoors needed to be
vaccinated. When a group of five guests arrived for dinner one evening,
two covertly passed a phone between them, trying to prove that they were
vaccinated by using the same Excelsior Pass, an electronic vaccination
record created by New York state. Vitagliano, doubling as the vaccine
card checker, caught the pair and stopped them from entering.
“It’s the largest cultural clash we’ve ever faced,” says
Vitagliano of trying to enforce Covid-19 protections. “We didn’t get
into business to be bouncers, but here we are.”
Vitagliano’s experience is a preview of what the thousands of New
York City dining, fitness, and entertainment establishments will
experience in mid-September, when Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new policy requiring vaccinations to enter these indoor
venues kicks in. “If you want to participate in our society fully,
you’ve got to get vaccinated,” de Blasio said at a press conference on
August 3. “It’s time.”
Vaccination rates have stalled in recent weeks, even amid an uptick in cases and hospitalizations.
Nationwide, 57.9% of the population has received at least one dose of
the vaccine. New York City is just above the national average, with
59.5% vaccinated. The new mandate, which will begin on Sept. 13,
requires that all employees and patrons in these establishments have at
least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine.
Under the system, patrons will have to show a vaccine card, the
new NYC Covid Safe app (where users can upload their identification,
vaccine card, and recent Covid-19 test results), or the state’s
Excelsior Pass app. But forging fake cards, considered a felony, or
using the legitimate cards of others will inevitably be an issue. The
NYC Covid Safe app doesn’t actually check the validity of the
vaccination card or cross reference it with outside databases, such as
state records. There are also public concerns around handing more
personal information over to the government.
Assessing vaccination
status is the latest headache restaurant owners face. The industry was
already dealing with the stresses of getting indoor dining back up and
running, along with a labor shortage. The number of workers is down an estimated 1.3 million, 10% below what it was before the pandemic, according to the National Restaurant Association.
Meanwhile,
restaurateurs find themselves in the crosshairs of a culture war. Salil
Mehta, chef and owner of the Singaporean restaurant Laut,
says the mayor’s announcement “freaks him out.” Although he’s
pro-vaccine, he says this dynamic will be especially hard on Asian
restaurants, where racism is already a problem. Mehta says that when he
spoke with his local police precinct about the new mandate, officers
told him they won’t be monitoring restaurants but he has a right to kick
out customers who won’t leave. “Then you’re in close contact with
someone who isn’t vaccinated, and it shouldn’t be our job,” says Mehta,
who can’t afford to hire security. “I don’t want to be the guy policing
these things.
Others are preparing their staff to disarm potentially heated situations. At Dhamaka,
a new Indian restaurant on the Lower East Side, front-of-house lead
Tina Dolker is anticipating cancelations when the rule goes into effect,
along with contentious interactions. “We are going to have special
training on how to say ‘no,’” she says. Danny Meyer, the chief executive
officer of Union Square Hospitality Group LLC, says staff at his
restaurants will receive guidance on how to deal with aggressive guests.
“We have been working on de-escalation techniques for months,” Meyer
says.
Now I'm sure you all noticed in that video above that the cops are checking people's vac passes outside.And whatever plan Shake Shack Shithead and NYC EDC figurehead Meyer has for de-escaltions, inevitably the NYPD will be summoned if it gets rowdy. Then the NYPD will inevitably wind up enforcing the mandate because of whatever latest iteration it is to keep customers, workers and business owners safe. And we will have to refund the police all over again...
Last fall, city Housing Authority carpenters performing
work at a public housing complex in Washington Heights made a disturbing
discovery inside a tenant’s bathroom: black splotches flowering on what
appeared to be a newly installed drop ceiling.
When they removed the ceiling, they found a thick coating
of toxic black mold festering in the rafters behind it and covering the
backside of the sheetrock.
A subsequent investigation revealed that a contractor had
put up drywall over mold and water leaks in multiple apartments at the
development. The examination found open mold and leak repair requests in
45 apartments — fixes the contractor had failed to address.
Another problem: The contractor who performed the
inadequate work was affiliated with the private-sector developer that
was about to take over management of the public housing development
under a controversial program NYCHA is relying on known as Rental
Assistance Demonstration — aka, RAD.
Behind the scenes, the alleged mold cover-up set off
alarm bells. An investigation by THE CITY confirmed NYCHA officials
quietly altered the authority’s protocols on all RAD transitions going
forward, ratcheting up oversight of all properties that convert ,to
private management under the program.
From now on, NYCHA said it would ensure that developers
preparing a building for RAD conversion use only mold-resistant
sheetrock. The developers will be provided with an apartment’s mold
history — and NYCHA will follow up to make sure open repair requests are
addressed.
“Due to this investigation, NYCHA has instituted better
controls to protect against any confusion surrounding (RAD)
conversions,” NYCHA management wrote in response to THE CITY’s questions
about the mold issue.
NYCHA has made no public announcement about any
of this, and it’s easy to see why: RAD has become a hot-button issue
confronting the Housing Authority as it attempts to redress a history of
negligence and remedy unsafe and unhealthy living conditions that have
plagued many of its 400,000 tenants for decades.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been missing in action as the state failed to release
the vast majority of $2.6 billion in federal funds for tenants on the
brink of eviction, the head of the emergency rental relief program
testified Tuesday, just before the accused sexual harasser announced his
resignation.
“I have not had conversations with the governor about this,” Michael
Hein, commissioner of the New York State Office of Temporary and
Disability Assistance, admitted to lawmakers at an Assembly hearing in
Lower Manhattan.
Assemblyman Mike Lawler (R-Rockland County) had asked Hein when was the last time he’d spoken with Cuomo about the Emergency Rental Assistance Program passed by Congress in January.
That’s when Hein answered that he’d never spoken to the governor
about the program. Instead he communicates with Cuomo’s deputies, Hein
testified.
While Hein’s office has paid out $140 million to contractors to
administer the program that’s beset with tech problems and only recently
added a “save and resume” button to the lengthy online application,
only $100 million has been distributed to tenants and landlords since
June 1.
That’s just 3.7 percent of the $2.6 billion pot. The state risks
forfeiting the federal funds if 65% of the money isn’t paid out by Sept.
30.
“I think what this shows is that the administration is incapable of administering this program,” Lawler fumed.
“If you’re not gonna fight for yourself, at least fight for your children” Speeches outside NYC City Hall as today’s protest against the vaccine pass begins #NYC#NewYorkpic.twitter.com/L4lAocAcOz
Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood would likely become more
diverse and less segregated under a proposal to allow more development
in the neighborhood, according to a first-of-its-kind study on the
contentious rezoning’s potential racial impact.
The analysis of the Gowanus Neighborhood Plan, conducted
by a Columbia University professor with City Council staff, comes as the
controversial proposal — previously delayed for months by a lawsuit —
now makes its way through the city’s public review process.
The study also offers the first glimpse at the potential value of a Council bill passed just weeks ago requiring “racial equity reports on housing and opportunity” for rezonings in the future.
While that legislation will not take effect until
mid-2022 and does not apply to the Gowanus plan, those backing the
rezoning thought it was best to study the issue anyway. Those supporters
include area Councilmembers Brad Lander and Steven Levin as well as the
local housing nonprofit Fifth Avenue Committee, which helped fund the
study.
“If our goal is a more inclusive neighborhood, with
meaningful opportunities for New Yorkers of color, then we need to find
the courage to move forward thoughtfully. And I really believe this
provides clarity about that,” Lander said of the new research.
The Gowanus plan aims to change development rules within
an 82-block area along Fourth Avenue between Atlantic Avenue and 15th
Street and stretching west to Bond and Smith streets.
The city’s rezoning of Gowanus, Brooklyn, which some groups tried to sue to stop, would likely make the neighborhood more diverse and less segregated, a new report found.
The report, conducted by Columbia University and New York City Council
staff, found that the rezoning calls for 35 percent of the nearly 8,000
new housing units to be set aside for affordable housing, a much
greater share than in other recent rezonings.
The nearly 3,000 affordable housing
units would be offered to families making between $30,000 to $100,000,
or 40 to 80 percent of the area median income, and would help Gowanus
“much more closely match the diversity of New York City rather than the
population of the local area — a neighborhood that is significantly whiter and wealthier than the City as a whole,” according to the report.
It estimates that 20 to 25 percent of the new housing would be rented by Black families and 25 to 37 percent by Latino families.
“The report shows that in recent
decades, Gowanus and surrounding neighborhoods have grown increasingly
exclusionary, causing displacement of many lower-income residents of
color, and becoming one of the whitest and wealthiest communities in the
city,” Council Member Brad Lander, who represents the neighborhood, said in a statement. “We can share it better.”
Landers and others touted the report as one of the first racial-impact studies done for a rezoning, which will soon be required by city law, and as showing the benefit of including them for future plans.
“Racial equity analyses represent a stark break from business as usual in land-use planning,” Lance Freeman,
a Columbia professor and one of the co-authors of the report, said in a
statement. “Instead of exacerbating or ignoring racial inequality — as
much land-use planning has done in the past — racial equity analyses
will require policymakers to take into consideration how their actions
impact racial equity.
“We hope this report can help change
the conversation around the racial impact of rezonings as we work to
overcome decades of segregated growth in New York City,” Freeman added.
Brad Lander is all over this study, it wasn't long ago when he was spewing this racial inclusivity and equity drivel when he was blubbering during those zoom calls advocating for Cojo's disastrous and universally rejected Planning Together. Come on man
After a Queens park playground appeared to be open for a weekend and then abruptly closed, parents want to know what’s going on.
CBS2’s Jenna DeAngelis went to the city for answers, and spoke to eager Astoria residents.
“Please open the playground soon!” two young boys said.
It’s a plea to the city Parks Department from friends Archer and Arlo, who don’t like seeing the Astoria Park playground closed.
“There’s a lot of stuff to climb,” Arlo Pignataro said.
Arlo got a chance to climb and swing in the park when it was open on July 31.
“Kids were playing, and the sun was shining, so he got to go in the
new splash pad, and swing and climb, and it was great. And then the next
day I had to tell him that it wasn’t actually open,” said mother
Amybeth Whissel.
That’s because the next day, parents like Marianna Scantlebury were asked by Parks staff to leave.
“It was like a mixed message because some of the Parks Department was
saying it was unsafe and that there were tests that needed to be done
and there were other people saying, oh, it had something to do with the
sprinkler system,” Scantlebury said.
A major undertaking to remediate contaminated soil under
several baseball and soccer fields in Brooklyn has dragged on for nearly
a decade, testing the resolve of a local community still recovering
from the devastation of Superstorm Sandy.
And it’s getting worse before getting better: In late
July, a chain-linked fence emerged around one of the few remaining open
spaces at the Red Hook Recreation Area on Bay Street, sealing off the public for at least the next 18 months.
Until recently, locals and athletes enjoyed the space’s
track, basketball and handball courts, and four baseball and three
soccer fields — especially after the state’s COVID-19 lockdown order was
lifted and outdoor activities resumed last year.
“It’s supposed to be done,” Tony Harrison, 58, a Red Hook resident, said of the park overhaul work.
But, he added, “It’s going on and going on.”
Admin note:
I will no longer be referring Bill de Blasio as the mayor of New York City. I don't care how many days he has left. He's abdicated his position and sold out his constituents for the last time and doesn't deserve the title anymore. Like Louis Grossman said the other day, it's time to say no more.
Gov. Cuomo’s top aside Melissa DeRosa stepped down Sunday as the
governor faces potential criminal charges and calls for his own
resignation over sexual harassment allegations.
The defection of DeRosa, who served in the most powerful unelected
position in state government, is a major blow to Cuomo as he prepares to
likely be impeached by the state Assembly.
In a statement first reported on Twitter, DeRosa said the past two years have been “emotionally and mentally trying.”
“I am forever grateful for the opportunity to have worked with such
talented and committed colleagues on behalf of our state,” she added.
DeRosa is mentioned repeatedly in the damning report released last week
by Attorney General Letitia James detailing sexual harassment
allegations against Cuomo made by 11 women, mostly much younger
staffers.
Investigators working for
James’ office found DeRosa spearheaded the effort to discredit Lindsey
Boylan, the first woman to go public with misconduct claims against the
the governor.
Actually, Lindsey Boylan was not the first woman to go public against Mario's son...
Although the relentless coverage of Cuomo's sexual harassment scandal is good, 3 years ago a woman actually tried to warn reporters right to their faces and also Cuomo of sexual harassment and corruption happening in the Albany state house#CuomosGottaGohttps://t.co/QIdpqus4gb
Mayor
Bill de Blasio and New York City officials revealed a plan on Wednesday
to squeeze another 20 years of operation out of the decrepit
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. This will buy time to come up with a more
visionary, forward-thinking plan for the highway that reduces dependence
on trucks and takes community concerns into account, the mayor said.
De Blasio said the city would “use
this opportunity to rethink how people, goods, and services move around
our city … The world is changing and we want to find new solutions.”
The plan includes preserving the
current infrastructure by waterproofing it and eliminating the use of
roadway salt; performing immediate maintenance; and enforcing limits on
overweight trucks.
NYC’s Department of Transportation
has been warning for years that a one and a half mile stretch of the
interstate, which includes the triple cantilever underpinning the
Brooklyn Heights Promenade, was dangerously deteriorated. Rebuilding the
segment in its current form would be a massive undertaking costing
roughly $4 billion, and many advocates have called for the BQE, which is
a major truck route and source of pollution, to be cut back in size or even eliminated altogether.
While de Blasio is presiding over the
intermediate-term repairs, he will be long out of office before any of
the visionary work can begin. But he denied that he was “kicking the
can down the road.”
“The notion that you’re going to turn
the BQE into a park overnight, obviously that’s not going to
immediately happen,” de Blasio said. “You need to reduce truck traffic,
[move to] water and rail freight, and transform the reality. It will
take years … This plan opens the door to get all those bigger things
right.”
Officials pointed out it would also
take years to line up the legislation and funding necessary for a major
rethinking of the highway.
“This plan is designed to address
current safety and structural concerns about the 70-year old roadway,
while reimagining not only its future purpose, but how freight is moved
in this city in the 21st century,” NYC Department of Transportation
Commissioner Hank Gutman said.
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