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The city just told Amazon it has two weeks to stop selling the vehicles that keep killing New York teenagers.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani sent cease-and-desist letters to 42 online retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, Target and Walmart, demanding they stop selling e-bikes and e-motos that break the city's speed and weight caps or face fines of up to $2,000 per sale [74][84]. The order comes a week after 17-year-old Gabriel Nacato died riding an illegal Deepower e-moto, capable of 30 mph on a 1,500-watt motor, double the legal limit, near City Hall [74]. Mamdani stopped short of ordering enforcement against devices already on the street or backing a bill requiring e-bike registration [73].
“We cannot and will not accept these dangerous vehicles on our city streets.”
“They're heavier and faster than e-bikes and more difficult to control.”
“Hell no. It was an impotent response by the mayor that does nothing to get the highly dangerous illegal e-vehicles off the street.”
Politics | Spectrum News NY1
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GothamistA blast loud enough to blow doors off their hinges turned a Bronx apartment building into a five-alarm fight for 300 firefighters.
A five-alarm explosion and fire tore through a five-story apartment building at 374 East 209th St. in Norwood, the Bronx, on Wednesday afternoon, killing one person and injuring 14 others, including six firefighters [41][52]. More than 300 firefighters responded after the blast blew doors off their hinges and caused part of the third floor to collapse into the second [41]. ABC7 reports initial calls indicated a lithium-ion battery may have sparked the explosion, though FDNY had not confirmed a cause by evening [32].
“It blew out window frames. It blew some of them across the street.”
“A very difficult fire on a very hot and humid day.”
Gothamist
After years of legislative fighting, terminally ill New Yorkers can now ask a doctor to help them die on their own timeline.
New York's Medical Aid in Dying Act took effect Wednesday, letting terminally ill adults with six months or less to live request lethal medication after two physicians sign off and a five-day waiting period [15][19]. New York becomes the 13th jurisdiction in the country to allow it, following a law modeled on Oregon's original 1994 statute [22]. Four orders of Catholic nuns and other Catholic ministries are suing over the law's opt-out rules, though the state has granted them a temporary exemption while the case proceeds [19].
“I'm proud that I gave people the choice, when life gets really hard, that they don't have to prolong a death that's inevitable.”
“What the sisters are asking for is a true opt-out: the ability to not participate and the ability for their residents to not have to hear about this.”
Politics | Spectrum News NY1
Hell's Kitchen has a new smallest restaurant: the trunk of a Smart car. Bradley Alvelo runs Pizza Pod NYC out of a two-seater parked at 54th Street and 10th Avenue, stone-firing nine kinds of 12-inch pies off a portable generator for truck drivers, theatergoers and kids cutting through after school [146]. Alvelo, who grew up in the Bronx, traces the idea back further than the car: "Pizza is number one comfort food. And when you're a broke kid pizza will save your life" [146].