Police handcuffed a biker they detained in Central Park on the morning of May 10 around 7:30am. Police had not responded to a query as to why the biker was retained and what if any charges/citations were issued. But it sparked outrage on a pro-bike subreddit.
Police handcuffed a biker they detained in Central Park on the morning of May 10 around 7:30am. Police had not responded to a query as to why the biker was retained and what if any charges/citations were issued. But it sparked outrage on a pro-bike subreddit. ( Photo: r/NYCbike)

City Council Member Gale Brewer became the latest to push back on the NYPD’s recent move to issue criminal summonses for bikers who violate traffic laws. The subreddit site r/NYCbike has been up in arms over the policy, and some posters are calling for mass bike protests.

Opposition Growing Against NYPD’s Criminalization Push for Bike-Traffic Infractions
19 May 2025 | 06:46
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Less than a month into the NYPD’s program to issue criminal summonses to bicyclists who violate traffic laws with infractions such as running a red light, a groundswell of opposition appears to be building.

May 19 was actually the first day that bikers who were issued criminal summonses started appearing...

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“Rest in Peace Proud Mexican Cadets” reads a sign scrawled in Spanish on a Mexican flag at a makeshift memorial growing on the Brooklyn side of the East River near the site where a tall ship of the Mexican Navy collided with the Brooklyn Bridge after it left the South Street Seaport.
“Rest in Peace Proud Mexican Cadets” reads a sign scrawled in Spanish on a Mexican flag at a makeshift memorial growing on the Brooklyn side of the East River near the site where a tall ship of the Mexican Navy collided with the Brooklyn Bridge after it left the South Street Seaport. ( Photo: Brian Berger)

Memorial Grows for 2 Mexican Cadets Killed After Tall Ship Collides with Brooklyn Bridge
19 May 2025 | 07:21

“Rest in Peace Proud Mexican Cadets.”

That’s one of the signs, scrawled in Spanish on a Mexican flag near...

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