Advocates worry which street safety project Mayor Adams will abandon next

Plus: The tallest guy in the NYC marathon? [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.]( [Advocates worry which street safety project Mayor Adams will abandon next]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: ⛅ Partly sunny, highs in the mid 60s. It's Wednesday morning in New York City, where street safety advocates say they feel let down by Mayor Eric Adams, who promised to be a "bike mayor" who would "build out a state-of-the-art bus transit system." Their concerns come after the city this year [drastically scaled back two long-planned street redesigns]( One that would add bike lanes and reduce traffic lanes on McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and another to give buses priority on Fordham Road in the Bronx. Here's what else is happening: - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who left Tuesday for [a three-day "solidarity mission" to Israel]( has resisted calls from some left-leaning activists and lawmakers to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. - Less than two weeks after a federal monitor slammed the New York City Department of Correction for worsening conditions in city jails, Commissioner Louis Molina snubbed the jails' oversight board by [not showing up to its regular meeting]( — for the second time in a row. - A [16-year-old mother and her newborn son went missing]( from their East New York home Monday, according to police who were still looking for them Wednesday morning. - "Unfortunately, we have reviewed numerous reports that Trenton police officers may have used force inappropriately and conducted stops, searches and arrests with no good reason in violation of individuals’ constitutional rights": Federal law enforcement officials said they're [launching a comprehensive review]( of the police department in Trenton, NJ. - A thousand drones are scheduled to [fly around Manhattan on Saturday night]( as part of a public art show meant to resemble a murmuration of birds, or "silent fireworks." - New York City is on pace to build only 11,000 new housing units this year, which is about [half of what the city added in 2022](. - Mayor Adams' chief adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, sat down for [tea and a selfie]( with Republican Councilmember Inna Vernikov a few days after Vernikov was arrested for bringing a gun to a pro-Palestinian rally. - If you're looking for someone to cheer for in this year's New York City Marathon, former hockey star Zdeno Chára, who's 6'9", will probably be [the easiest runner to spot in the crowd](. - Zoomers actually use their sick days when they're sick, and [bosses are annoyed](. - "Depp, personable though I’m sure he is, is so overblown – I mean Edward Scissorhands! Let’s face it, if you come on with hands like that and pale, scarred-face makeup, you don’t have to do anything. And he didn’t": Succession's Brian Cox talked some s**t in [this long Guardian interview](. - New Mexico prosecutors [say they have "additional facts"]( about the Rust shooting, and plan to re-charge Alec {NAME} with involuntary manslaughter. - There's a National Toy Hall of Fame in Rochester and the Fisher-Price Corn Popper is somehow not already in there ([but it's up for consideration this fall]( along with the pogo stick, PEZ dispensers and some other classics). “[For the next two years, there's going to be a chilling effect on what kind of designs DOT is going to come out with because they know they can be undermined at any moment by the bosses at City Hall]( - Jon Orcutt of the advocacy group Bike New York More from Gothamist [second image]( [Astoria's first cannabis dispensary opens after monthslong legal haze]( The colorful shop, called Terp Bros, is one of hundreds of New York dispensaries that a state Supreme Court judge blocked from opening in August amid a lawsuit challenging the state’s social equity licensing scheme. [Staten Island slated to secure first new subway cars in 50 years]( Staten Island straphangers will get to ride the new "cutting-edge" R211 cars during a 30-day period starting in March of next year. [We Rely On Your Support]( [New exhibit at Poster House shows 'failed' efforts to warn humanity about climate change]( The exhibition, "We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970 to 2020," pays homage to posters that have "failed to successfully modify behavior," according to the museum. [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.