Licensing E-Bikes Won’t Make the Sidewalks Safer

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 getting around [Licensing E-Bikes Won’t Make the Sidewalks Safer]( “Every few years it’s the same neighborhoods asking for the city to go after the same group of people.” Photo: Alamy/Alamy Stock Photo Any New Yorker walking around the city has probably encountered a person speeding by on an e-bike, either going the wrong way on a one-way or zipping by on the sidewalk. It’s annoying at best, dangerous at worst. So on first glance, a [bill]( introduced last year by City Councilmember Bob Holden requiring e-bike owners to get a license and registration for their vehicles makes a certain kind of sense: Wouldn’t more regulation help? [Continue reading »]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [Licensing E-Bikes Won’t Make the Sidewalks Safer “Every few years it’s the same neighborhoods asking for the city to go after the same group of people.”]( By Clio Chang [Sally Jessy Raphael’s 43-Room Elizabethan-Style Tudor Mansion Featuring multiple guesthouses, Gothic-cathedral details, and a place to put your horses.]( By Adriane Quinlan [Jewish Schools Around New York City Are Hiring Armed Guards “We didn’t wait to hear that people wanted to increase security. We did it immediately.”]( By Adriane Quinlan [She Finally Got Around to Really Decorating Her Tribeca Penthouse Artist Claudia Doring Baez lived in the former Wool Club space atop American Thread Building for 22 years before enlisting the help of an architect.]( By Wendy Goodman [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( Introducing The City Desk, a weekly newsletter about New York. [Sign up to get it every Thursday](. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved