Vast majority of jaywalking tickets go to people of color

Plus: Brace for the slowest traffic of the year [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 issues hundreds of jaywalking tickets a year. Vast majority go to people of color.]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: ☁️ Cloudy, highs around 70. It's Monday in New York City, where the NYPD issued 786 jaywalking summonses during the first six months of this year — and only 15% of them were given to white people. Here's where a majority of the tickets are being given — and why the City Council this month abruptly [pulled a bill that would've decriminalized jaywalking](. Here's what else is happening: - Brace for the [slowest Manhattan traffic of the year]( — the U.N. General Assembly is in town. - Thomas Donlon — who just assumed command of the NYPD after Commissioner Edward Caban's resignation amid a federal probe — said [federal agents searched his homes]( last Friday. - Federal law enforcement officials last Friday also [issued a subpoena]( to Director of Asylum Seeker Operations Molly Schaeffer, a top aide to Mayor Eric Adams. - A veteran sanitation worker died in a Queens garage on Saturday after he [fell out of his garbage truck and got run over]( officials said. - Three Bronx residents were transported to the hospital yesterday morning after [a major gas line ruptured]( in Bedford Park, according to the FDNY. - The 111-page indictment of South Jersey political boss George Norcross provides new evidence of [how he wielded political power in Camden]( creating a patronage pipeline that placed his allies in well-paying, influential jobs. - New enrollment data shows that the share of newly admitted Black students at Columbia University and other elite colleges dropped off significantly after a Supreme Court ruling last year [barred schools from using race as a factor]( in admissions decisions. - A Windsor Terrace community board that conditionally approved Mayor Adams’ "City of Yes" zoning proposal this year has rejected a much smaller rezoning application that would've allowed [two 13-story apartment buildings]( to go up. - Are tourists showing up unexpectedly in your neighborhood? 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