Cops abandoned a hastily planned raid of a makeshift e-bike parking lot used by hundreds of delivery workers on Wednesday morning – prompting community leaders to call on Mayor Mamdani to create an infrastructure at the ad-hoc worker hub.
“We have an administration that says one thing about immigrants and the dignity of workers and then we have a police department that is left over from the last administration that seems to be totally different,” Community Board 3 District Manager Susan Stetzer told Streetsblog.
When Streetsblog arrived at 11th Street and First Avenue at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, workers had already re-organized the hundreds of bikes to be mostly on the south side of the block and out of the taxi relief areas in front of the Madina Masjid Islamic Council of America.
Cops from the local precinct showed up at around 9 a.m. The commanding officer of the Ninth Precinct, Deputy Inspector Pamela Jeronimo, claimed that the bikes parked neatly on the street in what would otherwise be space used by car drivers for the same purpose were in violation of “the law.”…