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Listen • 0:34 Street deaths are on the rise in New York City and one Brooklyn lawmaker has a series of bills to address the problem. State Senator Simcha Felder says there are too many operators of bikes, scooters and e- bikes weaving in and out of traffic and blowing through red lights. “Streets right now, ever body is doing whatever they want. It’s the wild wild west. I know that from the neighborhood here and I see it.” So He’ introduced a package of bills. They would require operators of two wheel vehicles to take a street safety course, register their bikes ...

New York State Senator Simcha Felder is again proposing a series of laws that would require helmets, licenses, and registration for people who ride bikes and scooters, but proposing more rules is not as effective as building protected bike lanes.

Senator Kevin Parker Floods Some Constituents with Mailers Before Election Deadline Internet safety. NYPD entrance exams. Lupus Awareness Month. Anti-Asian hate crimes. Those are just four topics from a deluge of mass mailers from Brooklyn State Senator Kevin Parker that some constituents say have flooded their mailboxes in recent weeks.  “I’ve probably gotten more mail from him in the past month than I have in the previous decade,” Park Slope resident Joel Berg, who estimates he’s received around 20 mailers in the past month, told Bklyner.  “It’s bananas,” said Leah Archibald...

Viewpoint: New York, don't tax unemployment benefits May 11, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The following editorial appeared in the New York Daily News: A supermajority of the New York state Senate’s 63 members rarely agree on anything, but there are 44 senators (and growing) who are sponsoring a necessary bill to exempt jobless folks from having to pay income tax on the unemployment benefits they collected when COVID threw millions out of work last year. Four million New Yorkers received unemployment compensation during 2020. Congress and President Joe Biden correctly exempted $10,200 of those ...

(The Center Square) – New York state lawmakers this week passed a bill to extend a moratorium on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite Republicans issuing concerns that the measure may do more harm than good. The votes in the state Senate and Assembly on Monday would take the moratorium, which officially ended Saturday, and push it back to Aug. 31. Under the bill, residents and some businesses experiencing hardships due to the pandemic will not face eviction for another four months. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the bill Tuesday afternoon. - Advertisement - “Tens of thousands o...