Should the NYPD still assume every gun is illegal?

Plus: Your guide to Pride Weekend [View this email in a browser.]( Gothamist relies on your support to make local news available to all. Not yet a member? [Consider donating and join today.]( [Lawyers take aim at NYPD gun search policy 2 years after Supreme Court ruling]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: ☀️ Sunny, highs in the upper 70s. It's Friday in New York City, where it used to be so difficult to get a concealed carry permit, police said it was fair to assume that nearly anyone they stopped with a gun didn't have a license. Then the Supreme Court ruled two years ago that New York's gun laws were too strict, thereby making it easier to carry a firearm legally. Here's why lawyers are now questioning [whether the NYPD should back off its approach to weapon searches]( — even as the Adams administration vows to get illegal guns off the street. And here's what else is happening: - President Joe Biden, fresh off his [rough debate performance]( is [expected to visit the Stonewall National Movement Visitor Center]( in Greenwich Village this afternoon. - Pride Month wraps up this weekend with a series of marquee events, including tomorrow's Dyke March and Sunday's PrideFest. [Here's our complete Pride Weekend schedule](. - After months of public outcry and pressure from the City Council, New York City’s public libraries are poised to have their budgets fully restored so that branches may [resume seven-day-a-week service](. - Beginning in September, city transportation officials will lower speed limits near [certain schools and "slow zones"]( from 25 mph to 20 mph — and from 15 mph to 10 mph in areas undergoing safety-related construction. - Of the 14,227 units of affordable housing added in New York City last year, a disproportionate amount are [concentrated in lower-income Black and Latino neighborhoods]( according to a new report. - There’s a new twist in the competitive race in the Hudson Valley's 17th Congressional District: Democratic former Rep. Mondaire Jones is [poised to lose the progressive Working Families Party's nomination]( ... and his team believes that the man in line to win it is a Republican plant. - The heads of Amtrak and NJ Transit committed yesterday to more frequent inspections of tracks and train equipment after [a series of transit meltdowns over the past month](. - The city's ongoing lifeguard shortage kept hundreds of people waiting in line outside the grand Astoria Pool yesterday — hours after [Mayor Eric Adams stopped by to hail its reopening](. - Speaking of struggling Democratic incumbents, just 24% of New York City voters think Mayor Eric Adams deserves a second term, [according to a new Slingshot poll](. - This real estate agent and prospective Real Housewife definitely [thinks the mayor deserves a second term](. - “I’m usually the one who brings it up, when people start talking about gardening — this is soil you can’t plant anything in if you want to eat it": Real estate brokers say their clients looking at luxury homes in Gowanus really [don't care about the toxic stuff]( in and around the canal. - Authorities are still searching for a Rikers Island detainee who was receiving medical care at Bellevue Hospital on Wednesday and managed to [escape custody and flee on a city bus](. - Joseph Reznick, a 72-year-old retired deputy NYPD commissioner, told the New York Post he [apprehended two teenagers at gunpoint]( after they jumped the fence into his backyard in Queens. - Greenpointers who support removing vehicle lanes and adding protected bike lanes to the historically dangerous McGuinness Boulevard are celebrating the primary win of Democratic Assemblymember Emily Gallagher, who [trounced her challenger who opposed the street changes](. - "BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical" is [coming to Broadway](. - The Newark home of Uncle Junior from "The Sopranos" is [up for sale for $579,000](. - Correction: Thursday's Early Addition misstated [which blocks of Bed-Stuy have been landmarked]( — the designation applies to Willoughby Avenue and Hart Street between Nostrand and Marcy Avenues. [“We thought it was important to start tracking who's saying yes to housing and who's saying no. It's very clear that some neighborhoods are doing a lot and others have really been left off the hook for years of not producing any affordable housing.”]( - Rachel Fee, executive director of the New York Housing Conference, on [HER REPORT DETAILING WHICH NEIGHBORHOODS ARE ADDING AFFORDABLE UNITS]( More from Gothamist [second image]( [The Crown Heights Armory hosts a trans and nonbinary swim night every month]( “Swimming is an intimate thing. 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