 Two groups of Park Slope residents opposed to the controversial Prospect Park West bike lane have filed a lawsuit against the DOT to get it removed. The well-connected group Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes—whose members include former NYC DOT commissioner (and wife of Chuck Schumer) Iris Weinshall and former Sanitation Commissioner Norman Steisel—filed the lawsuit this afternoon along with the group Seniors for Safety. Not only does the lawsuit (which you can read in its entirety below) accuse the DOT of conducting a misleading analysis of the bike lane's impact, but it also accuses the DOT of working with cycling advocates to smear the lane's opponents. And the plaintiffs obtained juicy e-mails to prove it. [MORE]  | Things not to say when you're indicted on felony assault charges for punching a woman so hard you put her into a coma from which she many never recover: your family is hurting. After his court appearance yesterday, Queens electrician Oscar Fuller tried to apologize, but like the famous JT song, the words just came out wrong.... [ MORE ] |  | Despite repeated requests for comment, Mayoral hopeful Rep. Anthony Weiner has declined to clarify his anti-bike lane remarks quoted in the NY Times over the weekend. (Weiner reportedly told Mayor Bloomberg, "When I become mayor, you know what I’m going to spend my first year doing? I’m going to have a bunch of ribbon-cuttings tearing out your [expletive] bike lanes.") We're guessing Weiner is reviewing his position on bike lanes in order to take a more carefully calibrated position; if so, he may want to check out this sharp Streetsfilm video that explains what the city's new bike lanes actually accomplish:... [ MORE ] |  | According to the NYPD, crime in city parks jumped 25% last year. And yes, there were a few rapes, but police say most of the crime happens because happy-go-lucky parkgoers forget that they need to watch their stuff. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne told the Post, "The single largest crime category typically involved larcenies in which often-unattended property is stolen, such as when someone playing softball leaves property on a nearby blanket and it's lifted while he or she is engaged in the game...If there's a credit card with the unattended property, it's automatically recorded as a grand larceny." [Updated with more info from the NYPD]... [ MORE ] |  | If you're going to carry an 18-inch machete, obviously you want to hid it in your pants! But police officers in NJ weren't amused by it, and arrested a 27-year-old North Bergen man after a pat-down search on Saturday.... [ MORE ] |  | Those looking to find fault with the DOT's pedestrian plazas in Times Square have another reason to be angry. The city has decided that this year the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is going to skip Times Square entirely because of "construction in Times Square,” according to the the Mayor's spokesman Jason Post (for the last two years it has skimmed the Square going from Seventh to Sixth Avenues at 42nd Street). What construction? Those pesky pedestrian plazas are to be reconstructed to “improve the curb lines and other features of the plazas.”... [ MORE ] |  | Some guy at the NY Post seems to be spearheading a campaign for Franco backlash... can you believe it? This Reed Tucker character says Franco may act and write and make art and be a professor and attend every Ivy League in America and still have the time to Twitter but why didn't he practice for the Oscars hard enough? Dance monkey! ... [ MORE ] |  | Charlie Sheen can now officially spend all of his time on what matters most: building his sex palace, taking out trolls, something or other about warlocks, and Tweeting. According to TMZ, the actor was just fired from Two and a Half Men, and Warner Bros. has issued the following statement: "After careful consideration, Warner Bros. Television has terminated Charlie Sheen's services, effective immediately." No word on whether or not the show will go back into production, Warner Bros. says a decision has not been made yet. This move will cost both WB and CBS a lot of money. ... [ MORE ] | | |
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