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Plus: Ex-FDNY chiefs indicted on federal bribery charges [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.]( [NYPD’s handling of subway ‘fare evader’ under scrutiny after shooting injures bystanders]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: ☁️ Cloudy, highs in the upper 70s. It's Tuesday in New York City, where the NYPD is facing scrutiny after police on Sunday opened fire on a crowded Brownsville subway platform in pursuit of an alleged fare beater with a knife. Were the gunshots — which hit one officer and a bystander and critically injured the suspect and another bystander — justified? [Here's what three policing experts told Gothamist]( based on the evidence we have now. And here's what else is happening: - Brownsville resident Gloria Holloway, whose son Derell Mickles was the alleged fare evader chased and shot by police, said Monday morning that [she hadn't been notified by police]( that her son was in the hospital. - Police said yesterday they were searching for a man who allegedly removed a knife from the scene of the platform shooting, [contradicting an earlier claim from the NYPD]( that authorities had recovered the weapon. - Riders at one subway station in Brownsville — which has a 39% poverty rate — were [40 times more likely to be ticketed]( for fare evasion in 2023 compared to the citywide average. - Before police shot at Derell Mickles, officers first tried to use Tasers. The NYPD said those attempts were "ineffective" — [a problem that has plagued police in recent years](. - Two former FDNY chiefs were indicted on federal charges yesterday for [allegedly taking at least $190,000 in bribes]( in exchange for fast-tracking approvals of buildings’ fire alarm systems. - The Washington Bridge, which connects Upper Manhattan to the Bronx over the Harlem River, got a new [dedicated bus lane and a two-way protected bike lane](. - A new survey by the city's teachers' union found that [a majority of public school teachers support]( a systemwide cellphone ban. - An 11-year-old boy died yesterday after falling from the 4th Avenue - 9th Street subway station in what transit officials suggested [was likely a subway surfing incident](. - Eric Goldstein, a former New York City education department official who oversaw school food, has been sentenced to two years in prison over a bribery scheme that led to [chicken with metal, plastic and "foreign matter"]( ending up in cafeterias. - Give Mayor Eric Adams credit: More [trees are getting pruned](. - Raul Pintos, a high-ranking NYPD officer who served as chief of staff to now-former Commissioner Edward Caban — and who also had his phone confiscated by the FBI — has [filed for retirement](. - American Transit Insurance Company, which provides insurance for about 60% of the for-hire vehicles on city streets, is [on the verge of collapse](. - Here's what the World Trade Center's [two new towers]( will look like. - Happy [10th anniversary]( to Brooklyn's Sade Night dance party. - The [feds arrested]( Sean "Diddy" Combs in Manhattan last night. - The Lower East Side's Una Pizza Napoletana remains the best pizzeria in the world, [according to the Italian website 50toppizza.it](. - M&J Trimming, Sarah Jessica Parker's favorite [Manhattan ribbon store]( is at the end of its rope. - Why can't moms be [pageant queens]( [“I'm going to buy a lot of f--king chicken from you guys.”]( - A text message sent by convicted education official Eric Goldstein, who [TOOK BRIBES IN EXCHANGE FOR PUTTING TAINTED CHICKEN IN NYC CAFETERIAS]( More from Gothamist [second image]( [Graffiti pioneer Futura 2000 gets career retrospective at Bronx Museum]( Futura 2000 was a pioneer of graffiti culture in the '70s and '80s, when young people in the Bronx and Brooklyn started “writing,” using the subway trains as a canvas for their work. 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