Mayor Mamdani ditched his predecessor’s practice of siccing NYPD on delivery workers who hang out on E. 11th Street in response to stories in the New York Post — opting to send the Department of Sanitation to clean up the block instead after the tabloid claimed mosque-going e-bike workers had “overwhelmed” the area and turned it into a “junkyard.”
After several stings prompted by the Murdoch-owned Post, where cops confiscated delivery bikes and ticketed workers, the Mamdani administration took a new approach on Thursday after the tabloid reported over the weekend that deliverymen “who congregate outside a half-century-old East Village mosque have transformed the area into a noisy, violent, trash-strewn junkyard while driving businesses and residents out.”
On Thursday morning, sanitation workers collected debris between parked e-bikes. NYPD community affairs officers were also on the scene, but not to seize bikes — a change from two previous tabloid-inspired “raids” under ex-Mayor Eric Adams. The NYPD confirmed that it was not the lead agency on this operation…