Happy Monday in the brightest, warmest New York City we’ve seen in months, where, thanks to Daylight Savings Time, we can all enjoy an extra hour of evening sun. And Mayor Mamdani wants to make sure all that extra light actually reaches the city streets.
On Friday, Mamdani announced a slew of new guidelines to restrict the sprawl of scaffolding and sidewalk sheds throughout the five boroughs. As familiar a sight to New Yorkers as bodega cats or delivery e-bikes, green plywood sidewalk sheds cover roughly 380 miles of city streets, equivalent to 7,500 blocks, and often stay up for years or decades.
“We are interrogating every single rule and regulation that we have to answer the question of ‘Is this necessary to keep New Yorkers safe?’ And if the answer is no, then it deserves to be changed,” Mamdani said in an address outside the Highbridge Gardens NYCHA complex in the Bronx.
According to Mamdani, the Department of Buildings rules overhaul will cap the distance sheds can extend from a building at 40 feet, reduce the frequency of facade inspections and increase penalties on landowners who keep sheds around rather than address the underlying structural issues. In the past year, 17% of citywide scaffolding has been removed. Mamdani hopes the new regulations will dramatically increase that number.
If all goes to plan, New Yorkers may soon be enjoying a long-forgotten civic amenity: Vitamin D.
Six people were arrested Saturday after far-right anti-Muslim demonstrations outside Gracie Mansion, led by pardoned Jan. 6 protestor Jake Lang, drew a counter-protest that turned violent, with reported explosive devices.
NYPD officer and Army National Guard Major Sorffly Davius died while deployed in Kuwait after a medical episode.
A coalition of Columbia Street Waterfront District leaders, community members and local advocates will convene a community meeting on Tuesday at 6 p.m. to address reportedly dangerous traffic conditions along Columbia Street.
A joint enforcement effort took down a Flatbush-based gun trafficking operation. If convicted, the defendant faces up to 25 years in prison.
Freshman softball player Claire Giardina, who has played on the Bay Ridge Prep varsity team since she was in seventh grade, hopes to help lead her team to a championship this year.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation launched its “Yard Opportunity Shop” retail incubator program with a pop-up shop offering decadently delicious — yet somehow still healthy — cookies from Monshe Bakery.
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Sasha Bonet discusses her intergenerational memoir, ‘The Waterbearers’
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Sasha Bonet is a Clinton Hill-based writer, editor and critic, whose debut book “The Waterbearers” received critical acclaim for its deeply researched and profoundly told depiction of Black women and matriarchal structures.
“The Waterbearers” offers a mix of creative nonfiction, sociological analysis and cultural criticism, focusing primarily on Black women, power and relationship dynamics, and their agency in a society that upholds whiteness and patriarchy.
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On This Day in 1921, the Eagle reported: “Everybody knows that hot weather often inhibits sleep. It is hotter in the city at night under the daylight law than it is under standard time because the stone houses, which absorb heat from the sun, continue to radiate heat after sunset and are always an hour behind time in getting cooled. This may sound funny, but it isn’t.”
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