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An appellate courtroom decide has quickly blocked town from eradicating the Bedford Avenue protected bike lane. Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell An appellate decide on Tuesday halted town’s plans to take away a part of the protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue. The choice got here in response to an enchantment filed by advocacy group Transportation Alternate options and native Baruch Herzfeld, whose lawsuit towards town and Mayor Eric Adams was tossed by a Brooklyn Supreme Court docket decide final week.  A short lived restraining order issued hours earlier than building was set to start on July 15 blocks town from…

The largest piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth was offered for simply over $5 million at an public sale of uncommon geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, whereas a juvenile dinosaur skeleton went for greater than $30 million. The 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock named NWA 16788 was found within the Sahara Desert in Niger by a meteorite hunter in November 2023, after having been blown off the floor of Mars by an enormous asteroid strike and touring 140 million miles (225 million kilometers) to Earth, based on Sotheby’s. The estimated sale value earlier than the public sale was $2…