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The city is pouring the exact Greenpoint bike lane a film-studio dynasty allegedly bribed City Hall to kill

The city broke ground on a Greenpoint street redesign prosecutors say a powerful film-studio family paid to stall. Now it is finally being built.

A green parking-protected bike lane on a New York City street

The city is pouring the exact Greenpoint bike lane a film-studio dynasty allegedly bribed City Hall to kill

The city broke ground on a Greenpoint street redesign prosecutors say a powerful film-studio family paid to stall. Now it is finally being built.

The city is pouring the exact Greenpoint bike lane a film-studio dynasty allegedly bribed City Hall to kill
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The city just broke ground on a Greenpoint street redesign that should have been finished years ago. The reason it was not, prosecutors say, is that a powerful local film-studio family paid to stall it, which makes this groundbreaking less about a bike lane than about who city streets get designed for.

On May 27 the Department of Transportation began work to complete the long-delayed McGuinness Boulevard redesign , extending the bike lane along a corridor where a teacher was killed crossing the…

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