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Us New Yorkers are always on the go moving a mile a minute–after all, we are the city that never sleeps–but you know what’s not always moving a mile a minute? Our cars.
One year ago on August 1, 2022, around-the-clock speed camera enforcement was implemented in NYC due to a change in state law enacted by Governor Kathy Hochul, and the city has seen a 30% decrease in vehicular speeding violations since.
The most dramatic results of speed cameras was seen on Houston Street in the East Village, where speeding declined by 96% in a 12 month period.
Beyond Houston Street, speeding dropped the steepest at the following locations:
84% on Cropsey Avenue (Brooklyn)
74% on North Conduit Boulevard (Brooklyn)
79% on Seagirt Boulevard (Queens)
83% on Union Turnpike (Queens)
68% on Bruckner Boulevard (Bronx)
And while speeding went down, safety went up–according to the NYC DOT traffic fatalities and injuries on city streets dropped by 25% in speed camera zones during extended hours.
“One year ago we launched 24/7 speed camera enforcement, and the results are in: the program has reduced speeding, decreased the number of injuries, and made our streets safer,” said NYC DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez.
“Speeding happens most often on nights and weekends, and expanded enforcement has been a highly effective tool to keep New Yorkers safe,” added Rodriguez.
Before round-the-clock operation of the speed cameras, they only operated on weekdays between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. Though the onset of COVID-19 brought about an increase in speeding in cities across the nation, most often overnight and on weekends.
In NYC specifically motor vehicle fatalities far outpaced all other travel modes, with speed cited as a major contributing factor in most crashes.
Beyond enforcing 24/7 speed camera enforcement to combat the rising instances of speeding, NYC DOT also implemented safe street redesigns to calm traffic and improve safety throughout a number of NYC’s corridors.
Despite alarming national increases, NYC remains one of the safest cities to travel by foot. The first half of 2023 has been the safest year for pedestrians ever on record, and the city is seeing historic declines in pedestrian deaths.
“The numbers don’t lie: my bill to turn speed cameras on 24/7 has saved lives,” said State Senator Andrew Gounardes. “The 30% decrease in speeding we have seen is 30% more New Yorkers who make it home safely to their families, and a 30% rise in traffic safety on our streets,” added Gounardes.
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Free waffles and good vibes will be taking over NYC at the beginning of September! For a limited time, from Sept. 1st to Sept. 8th, the inclusive and sex-positive waffle shop Sugar Wood is teaming up with dating app HUD.
Anyone who shows off their HUD profile can snag a free waffle and who knows, you might get an admirer or two? More importantly, $1 will be donated for every waffle given away. This money will go to The New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault for every waffle that is claimed.
Guests can download the app and make a profile prior to grabbing their waffle! Along with the waffle, you’ll also receive a cute surprise to show your pride.
Choose between a woody or kitty shaped waffle, and then you can choose which signature sauce to dip your waffle in. Finish it off with a choice of six delicious drizzles as a topping! Additionally, Sugar Wood has merch and naughty seasonal cookies available for purchase.
This giveaway will be running for the full opening hours of Sugar Wood each day and the charming shop is located on 157 Prince St. During the week, Sugar Wood is open from Monday to Thursday between 1pm-8:30 pm and on Friday from 1pm-10:30pm. Weekend hours of operation are from noon to 10:30 pm on Saturday and noon to 9:00 pm on Sunday!
WASHINGTON (AP) — Slowly and steadily, an overheated American job market is returning to room temperature.
The Labor Department is expected to report Friday that U.S. employers — companies, nonprofits and government agencies combined — added 170,000 jobs last month, according to a survey of forecasters by the data firm FactSet. That would be down from the 187,000 jobs that were added in July and would be the lowest monthly gain since December 2020.
“We are beginning to see this slow glide into a cooler labor market,’’ said Becky Frankiewicz, chief commercial officer at the employment firm ManpowerGroup. “Make no mistake: Demand is cooling off. … But it’s not a freefall.’’
The latest sign that the pace of hiring is losing some momentum — without going into a nosedive — would be welcomed by the Federal Reserve, which has been trying to tame inflation with a series of 11 interest rate hikes. The Fed is hoping to achieve a rare “soft landing,” in which it would manage to slow hiring and growth enough to cool price increases without tipping the world’s largest economy into a recession. Economists have long been skeptical that the Fed’s policymakers would succeed.
But optimism has been growing. Since peaking at 9.1% in June 2022, year-over-year inflation has dropped more or less steadily. It was 3.2% in July. But the economy, though growing more slowly than it did during the boom that followed the pandemic recession of 2020, has defied the squeeze of increasingly high borrowing costs. The gross domestic product — the economy’s total output of goods and services — rose at a respectable 2.1% annual rate from April to June. Consumers continued to spend, and businesses increased their investments.
The Fed wants to see hiring decelerate because strong demand for workers tends to inflate wages and feed inflation.
“Employers aren’t wanting to let their existing talent go,’’ Frankiewicz said.
Instead of slashing jobs, companies are posting fewer openings — 8.8 million in July, the fewest since March 2021. And American workers are less likely to leave their jobs in search of better pay, benefits and working conditions elsewhere: 3.5 million people quit their jobs in July, the fewest since February 2021. A lower pace of quits tends to ease pressure on companies to raise pay to keep their existing employees or to attract new ones.
Average hourly earnings aren’t growing as fast as they did last year, either: In March 2022, average wages were up 5.9% from a year earlier. In August, they’re expected to be up just 4.4%, the same as in July. Nancy Vanden Houten, lead U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, noted, though, that annual average pay increases need to slow to around 3.5% to be consistent with the Fed’s 2% inflation target.
Still, economists and financial market analysts increasingly think the Fed may be done raising interest rates: Nearly nine in 10 analysts surveyed by the CME Group expect the Fed to leave rates unchanged at its next meeting, Sept. 19-20.
Despite what appears to be a clear trend toward slower hiring, Friday’s jobs report could get complicated. The reopening of school can cause problems for the Labor Department’s attempts to adjust hiring numbers for seasonal fluctuations: Many teachers are leaving temporary summer jobs to return to the classroom.
