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| NEWS |  | | | Child-Mayor Mamdani's Pivot on E-Bike Crackdown Could Kill Mayor Zohran Mamdani's decision to end criminal summonses for e-bike and bicycle traffic violations is drawing sharp criticism — and raising serious safety concerns. A new NYU Langone Health study documents a surge in brain and spine injuries from e-bike crashes, up more than 21% between 2024 and 2025, even as the mayor strips enforcement tools from the NYPD. The policy change, which took effect March 27, replaces criminal summonses — which required violators to appear in court — with mere warnings. The driving force, critics say, is sanctuary city politics: appearance in court could expose illegal immigrants to ICE detention, and Mamdani's administration chose to protect that constituency over the safety of pedestrians. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch had previously defended criminal summonses as the only meaningful enforcement mechanism, noting that unlike licensed drivers, e-bikers face no license suspension if they ignore a ticket. The result, Tisch warned, was that e-bike operators could flout traffic law with virtually no consequences. | "This is not a war on e-bikes, this is a response to very real concerns that are widely held across virtually every borough, every New Yorker in this city." — NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch |
Liz Peek pulls no punches: New Yorkers who walk the city's streets are routinely endangered by e-bikers running red lights, riding on sidewalks, and charging the wrong way down one-way streets. In Mamdani's New York, it seems illegal immigrant delivery workers come first — and pedestrian safety comes last. |
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| COLUMNS |  | | | Democrats, Not Trump, Started the Gerrymander Fight The media narrative blaming President Trump for the current wave of partisan redistricting doesn't hold up under scrutiny, writes Liz Peek. Democrats launched this cycle of gerrymandering when New York Democrats attempted an aggressive mid-census redrawing of congressional maps in 2022 — bypassing the independent commission their own party had created in 2014 — in a blatant bid to eliminate Republican-held seats. Even after New York's highest court blocked that first attempt, Albany Democrats came back with a second map targeting the only Republican-held seat in New York City — Staten Island's Nicole Malliotakis — before the Supreme Court stepped in. The party that championed nonpartisan commissions had no problem abandoning them the moment political self-interest demanded it. The underlying driver is demographic reality. New York and California are hemorrhaging population — and with it, House seats and Electoral College votes. Rather than address the high taxes and suffocating regulations driving residents away, Democratic leaders in those states are resorting to crude map manipulation to preserve their congressional majorities. | "Rather than correct their disastrous management, Democrats would rather engage in the partisan tactics they have long criticized." — Liz Peek |
As Peek notes, this is the same party that routinely invokes threats to democracy — while threatening to pack the Supreme Court, eliminate the filibuster, and abolish the Electoral College. Sen. John Fetterman said it plainly of the Virginia gerrymander: "We all lose at this point." He's right — and voters should remember who fired the opening shot. |
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