Where the 6th Ave bike lane ends and fear begins

Plus: How Savant Studios built a beloved NYC ‘it’ brand [View this email in a browser.]( Gothamist relies on your support to make local news available to all. Not yet a member? [Consider donating and join today.]( [Manhattan officials call on DOT to close Sixth Avenue bike lane gap]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: ⛅ Foggy this morning, then clearing, with highs in the lower 80s. It's Thursday in New York City, where the 6th Avenue bike lane is smooth sailing from Franklin Street to Canal Street. Then the bike lane disappears for a harrowing 20-block stretch between Canal and West 8th Street, forcing cyclists into traffic. Here's what elected officials are doing to [try to get a safe, continuous bike lane between Canal and 59th Street](. And here's what else is happening: - Police said they arrested nearly 300 pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University and the City College of New York on Tuesday night, as Mayor Eric Adams and top NYPD leaders [continued to blame "outside agitators" for fueling unrest on campuses](. - "Students are saying we can’t work, we can’t think, we can’t study under these conditions": Joseph Howley, a classics professor at Columbia, was among dozens of faculty members yesterday protesting the university president's decision to deploy the NYPD to arrest student protesters — and to [keep a police presence on campus through graduation](. - An NYPD officer was arrested in Queens this week on [charges of strangulation, menacing and harassment]( — apparently stemming from a domestic dispute, according to police. - A Manhattan landlord jailed for repeatedly blowing off court-ordered repairs at a pair of Washington Heights properties [now faces new charges of harassing tenants]( at five of his apartment buildings. - The Adams administration is still defending its new protocol [requiring elected officials to fill out a lengthy online form]( to request meetings with city agency leaders, despite significant pushback from City Council members. - Johnny Grima, a longtime advocate for homeless New Yorkers who was on the F train a year ago when Jordan Neely was fatally choked by a fellow passenger, told Gothamist [he still feels guilty that he walked away](. - [A five-alarm fire broke out yesterday]( at a Bushwick grocery store and spread to neighboring apartments before 250 firefighters put it out. - Curbed has a detailed account of the MRAP truck, or mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle, the NYPD used to [knock over a bus stop shelter]( before sending cops into the second story window of the campus building being occupied by Columbia students. - Rudy Giuliani, who owes his creditors $153 million, told a bankruptcy court he'd limit himself to a $43,000-a-month budget. [He didn't](. - There's now a [65-foot-long hot dog sculpture]( in Times Square. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign [pays well](. - Happy [50th birthday]( to Tyra Banks. - Hotel slippers [are canceled](. - Have some time for a game? [Play]( our mini local news crossword. - Sign up for reminders when we publish new games [here](. [“I think that this form has sort of become like the boogeyman in the room. And I don’t know if you’ve ever opened it, or looked at it, but it’s not that complicated.”]( - Tiffany Raspberry, an adviser to Mayor Adams, on [THE FORM CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE TO FILL OUT TO MEET WITH CITY AGENCY LEADERS]( More from Gothamist [second image]( [How Savant Studios built a beloved NYC ‘it’ brand]( Michael “Grapes” Graham, who had a background in youth organization and no professional fashion experience, has built his Bed-Stuy-based label into a force in the global fashion scene. [A new film series at Lincoln Center spotlights films about NYC]( "Seeing the City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York," which kicks off Friday, features 30 movies from the collection of the Film-Maker’s Cooperative, the legendary nonprofit founded in 1961 by Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage and others. [We Rely On Your Support]( [A night at ‘Rescue Me,’ where women hope to date NYC firemen]( First responders are the beaus of the ball at “Rescue Me,” a popular and long-running singles mixer. [MTA spends $141 million on cameras to ticket drivers blocking bus routes]( The deal expands an MTA pilot program that allows cameras on roughly 600 buses to issue parking tickets to drivers parked in bus lanes. The new technology allows the equipment to also ticket any driver double parked along bus routes without bus lanes, as well as cars illegally parked in front of bus stops. [Instagram]( [Instagram]( [Facebook]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Twitter]( [New York Public Radio] [WNYC]( | [WQXR]( | [NJPR]( | [GOTHAMIST]( [WNYC STUDIOS]( | [THE GREENE SPACE]( Copyright © New York Public Radio. All rights reserved. 160 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013 [TERMS OF USE]( You can update your [PREFERENCES]( or [UNSUBSCRIBE]( from this list.