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The corner was formerly the site of a six-story commercial building housing a TD Bank branch, which has moved down the block.
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BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The neighborhood mourns the Rev. Erika Meyer, associate rector for Pastoral Care and Community Life at Grace Church in Brooklyn Heights, who died peacefully on July 14 after a battle with cancer. A memorial service will be held in September for Meyer, who built a ministry around guiding people through the grieving […]
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On the heels of a July 29 crash that killed a teenage e-moto rider, state Attorney General Letitia James last week issued an alert reminding consumers and businesses alike that it is illegal to buy or sell microbility devices that are marketed as e-bikes or e-scooters but can exceed New York’s strict speed limits for the two-wheelers.
James’ office’s alert makes clear that two-wheeled electric-assisted vehicles that go faster than 25 miles per hour inside of New York City and 20 mph across the rest of the state do not qualify as e-bikes or e-scooters under state law. Instead, New York classifies them as e-motos, mopeds, or motorcycles, all of which may require additional licensing, registration, and insurance compared to e-bikes and e-scooters.
James, in a statement, said the strict legal limits are aimed at keeping New Yorkers safe and that those who ignore them are placing “everyone on our streets in danger.”
“I urge businesses and consumers throughout our state to follow the law and keep unlicensed and unregistered motor vehicles off our streets,” James said. “No one should have to fear for their lives when crossing the street, and I encourage New Yorkers to follow the law and report those selling illegal e-bikes and e-scooters to my office.”
The attorney general’s office urged New Yorkers to file consumer complaints about companies they find to be selling devices illegally marketed as e-bikes or e-scooters in the city, including those sold online.
James’ office issued the alert following a couple of recent incidents where riders of illegal motorized two-wheelers got into fatal crashes. It came just two days after a 17-year-old, whom several news outlets identified as Gabriel Nacato, riding an illegal e-moto device, was killed by colliding with an SUV on Center Street in Lower Manhattan.
Nacato was riding an e-moto produced by the company Deepower, according to local officials and safe streets advocates.
The device is marketed as an e-bike, even though it weighs 100-pounds, can reach a top speed of 30 mph, and has a 1500-watt motor, according to Deepower’s website. Given those specs, it exceeds the legal limits for both e-bike speeds and motor power in the city.
Legal e-bikes in the Big Apple, none of which can have an electric motor that exceeds 750 watts of power, are divided into three classes, the consumer alert says.
Class 1 and 2 e-bikes — those that are low-speed pedal-assist and low-speed throttle-assist respectively — can both only help the rider with electric power up to 20 mph in the five boroughs, according to the alert. Class 3 e-bikes also use a throttle, but can go up to 25 mph with assistance.
E-scooters, meanwhile, must have a maximum speed of 20 mph in the city and are illegal to ride over 15 mph, James’ office warned.
However, officials and advocates have warned that while such devices cannot be sold as e-bikes and e-scooters under state law, the companies that make them often get around those restrictions by selling online.
Ben Furnas, executive director of the safe streets advocacy group Transportation Alternatives, applauded James’ consumer alert in a July 31 statement, saying it is “beginning to turn the tide on these companies’ deceptive practices.”
“New Yorkers deserve to know whether they’re buying something safe and legal, or dangerous and illegal,” Furnas said. “It’s unconscionable that companies have been falsely marketing illegal high-speed devices as street-legal and selling them to unwitting New Yorkers, leading to multiple deadly crashes on our streets.”
A PLAN FOR MORE CONVENIENT AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING in the neighborhoods south of Prospect Park is moving forward.
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