Friday Links
When Mortgage Rate Locks Expire [NY Times] Brooklyn Cyclists, Beware [NY Post] BK-Queens Battle May Be Brewing for the Islanders [NY Daily News] Concern Over Construction Company at 20 Henry [NY Daily News] Threats to the Market in 2011 [2011] Integrated Mortgage Markets for 2011 [Observer] City Gears Up fro Second Snow Storm [WSJ] Predictions…
When Mortgage Rate Locks Expire [NY Times]
Brooklyn Cyclists, Beware [NY Post]
BK-Queens Battle May Be Brewing for the Islanders [NY Daily News]
Concern Over Construction Company at 20 Henry [NY Daily News]
Threats to the Market in 2011 [2011]
Integrated Mortgage Markets for 2011 [Observer]
City Gears Up fro Second Snow Storm [WSJ]
Predictions for Brooklyn’s New Year [Brooklyn Paper]
Brooklyn Sanitation Chiefs Reassigned [Brooklyn Eagle]
Two Psychics Predict Brooklyn’s Future [Brooklyn Based]
BOD- they’re cops, they’re in a car most likely, and it’s the law. Cyclists are not above the law and if they can’t hear a cop yelling at them, they shouldn’t be riding on city streets so obliviously.
“Randolph: really? If bikers wouldn’t stop why do motorists?”
Putnam: Really? Until bikers are required to display tags on their bikes, what IS the incentive to stop?
on a bike it is easy to pretend you didn’t hear or you have headphones on or something like that, in a car there is a well established protocol for being pulled over.
Randolph: really? If bikers wouldn’t stop why do motorists?
how do the police plan on actually giving someone on a bike, speeding through a red light, a ticket? are they going to speed after them in their car and run the biker off the road? its not like many bikers are going to stop nicely when a cop says “hey you!”.
there are other bikers on this site- anyone been ticketed?
“A police source in Williamsburg called the effort “prolonged enforcement” — not a “crackdown” with quotas. ”
prolonged enforcement = sitting in a parked car on the corner of N6th and Berry (in the bike lane) and drinking coffee. look out!!
Steve Levin needs to be replaced at the next City Council election.
He’s nothing but a shill for Vito Lopez.
A police source in Williamsburg called the effort “prolonged enforcement” — not a “crackdown” with quotas.
“It’s from now until forever; there is no set time,” he said. “Bicyclists should travel like vehicles and must obey the same laws. The department and the people are sick of it!”