How safe is it for cyclists on the city's bridges?

Plus: How NY's first legal weed retailer made $12M in 6 months [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.]( [Cyclists say e-bikes, scooters are making bridges more dangerous, with ‘laughable’ enforcement]( [first image]( Today's weather: ⛅ We made it through the heat wave, at least for now! As of this writing, it is a lovely 73 degrees. Temperatures should reach the mid-80s this afternoon with a light breeze. It's the final day of July in New York City, where cyclists are [reevaluating the safety risks]( as more e-bikes and electric scooters join bike lanes. On Wednesday, a collision that allegedly involved several people riding motorized scooters on the Manhattan Bridge's bike lane left several people injured and hospitalized. Shari Stadel, a long time cyclist, was one of them. Charles Lane [spoke with her husband]( who said Stadel was released from the hospital on Friday, but doesn't remember much about the incident beyond entering the bridge's bike lane. Electric scooters are not permitted on the city's bridges, but the NYPD [told Lane last week]( that they were unaware of the crash and did not answer questions about a possible investigation. When asked about enforcement of scooters on the bridges, the department emailed a link to its main Twitter feed. 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Since the city changed the time in April, the sanitation department has [issued over 28,000 tickets]( the same time period last year the city issued 12,592 similar trash violations.) - The Taxi and Limousine Commission wants to do away with those [bullet-resistant partitions in vehicles]( which were implemented more than two decades ago after a string of cab driver murders. - The heat wave may be over for now, but summer isn't! Here’s how to [legally get some relief from a fire hydrant.]( - Barnes & Noble is trying to [reinvent itself by giving a more indie bookshop vibe,]( starting with its Upper West Side location. - A 19-year-old boy drowned on Friday while [swimming at the Rockaways]( the [second teen]( to drown at a NYC-area beach last week. - Six Brooklyn NYPD precincts encrypted their radio transmissions, and now [the department is considering doing so citywide](. This would mean the public could no longer listen in. - Police arrested a 40-year-old man who is accused of [robbing a Brooklyn hot yoga studio and vandalizing it]( with a swastika. - A federal lawsuit against a Chinatown meat and poultry plant that was a breeding ground for rats was settled on Friday, barring the owners of the factory from [participating in any more federally-regulated meat production.]( - While we’re on the topic of rats, anyone [wanna play Whac-a-Mole?]( - If you've been to Disney World, you know their dirty little secret of not having any trash, and also no rats. That’s because all their garbage is [processed in underground tubes]( in a system that was only adopted in one other place in the country: Roosevelt Island. - Take a break from NYC’s rats to examine the city’s cats, or at least [New Yorkers reimagined as different felines.]( - The tristate area has more to offer than just rats and cats. There's an abundance of dolphins in [New Jersey waters.]( - Got kids? 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