Our yearly April Fools’ Day pranks were especially successful this year, fooling both reporters and our future artificial supervisors.
It wasn’t a shock that an AI website fell for our fake story about Mayor Mamdani planning to replace car space with Rome-style piazzas in the districts of two council members who criticize him, Vickie Paladino and Joann Ariola.
What did surprise us was that City and State also fell for our more subtle, and frankly more believable, joke about those council members forming a new caucus called DRIVE. The City and State newsletter even published it before realizing it was a hoax.
In other news:
– The winners of our March (Parking) Madness Final Four battles were the 120th Precinct and the 122nd Precinct on Staten Island. – The Post followed Sophia Lebowitz’s investigation into Grubhub and gave us a nice mention. – Former Taxi Commissioner Lucius Riccio supports creating more pedestrian plazas to combat Ubers. – Linden Boulevard has been dubbed the new “Boulevard of Death” by Gothamist. – The MTA is using congestion pricing revenue to invest in clean air projects in the South Bronx. – The transit union is fighting to keep two-person train crews. – There will be a panel discussion on May 6 featuring Streetsblog Editor Gersh Kuntzman along with hosts Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear discussing their new book, “Life After Cars,” at the New York Public Library’s Midtown Manhattan branch.
Clarence Eckerson has once again been proven right, this time regarding illegal parking by car dealerships.
(Source: Streetfilms)
