It's Monday in New York City, where a growing number of people are showing up at the busy Bellevue Hospital emergency room with injuries from e-bike and scooter accidents.
Of the nearly 1,000 patients who arrived at Bellevue between 2018 and 2023 with e-bike related injuries, about half were hit by cars, according to a new study published in the journal Neurosurgery.
But the study notes that amid the general rise of e-bikes, serious injuries were often attributed to specific factors: riding without a helmet or riding while intoxicated.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani will join WNYC's Brigid Bergin tonight at 7 p.m. in the Greene Space for a live discussion about his first 100 days in office, his ambitious affordability agenda and what he has and hasn't accomplished so far. Register to watch a free livestream, and submit your question for the mayor here.
The former owner of a luxury pet food store in Tampa, who attended some dog-related fundraisers at Mar-a-Lago, was recently appointed by the State Department to commission the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Her team's selection: An "under-the-radar" American sculptor who lives and works in Mexico.
“My name’s Barack,” the president said, introducing himself to the children. As the two men took seats in front of the kids, the children started shouting out their own names, and with one boy shouting out, “I know who you are, you are Mamdani.”
Zosha Warpeha, a 31-year-old musician who was raised on a rural Minnesota maple syrup farm, came to New York City in 2013 to study jazz violin. Now, she's rocking on the hardanger d’amore.
Pasco, a 25-year-old Brooklyn resident and two-time winner of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, spoke to Gothamist ahead of last week’s annual competition.
Women DJs were few in the mid-90s. Trans women DJs were even rarer to behold. Bradford was at the vanguard of what would decades later become an identified movement of trans women on the ones and twos.
