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Council Member Tiffany Cabán joined a lot of transit advocacy teams in Astoria Tuesday evening to protest in opposition to a Queens Supreme Court docket ruling ordering the Division of Transportation to halt plans for a protected bike lane alongside thirty first Avenue. Cabán joined representatives from Transportation Options (TA), Households for Secure Streets and NYC Bike and Brew Dec. 9 for an emergency rally and protest experience, ending with a “die-in” protest on the mile-long stretch of thirty first Avenue that had been earmarked for a protected bike lane. Picture courtesy of Transportation Options Protesters forged their bikes onto…

Just lately, the New York Put up editorial board wrote an article attacking the efficacy of New York’s “scaffold law.” I couldn’t disagree extra with their contentions. Surely, the regulation — codified as Labor Regulation §240 — is exemplary of pioneering employee security legal guidelines that defend and supply safety to tens of hundreds of building staff annually. Late within the nineteenth century, a brand new period of building started to increase in New York Metropolis. New expertise and engineering methods allowed builders in New York to construct increased than ever. By February 1875, the ten-story Western Union Telegraph Constructing…