Staten Island pol calls to study lifting 'right on red' ban in parts of borough

Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay

Weather: ☀️ Sunny, highs in the lower 40s.

It's Monday in New York City, where most intersections don't allow right turns on red lights.

But pretty much everywhere else in the country lets drivers to do it, so long as they make a complete stop and mind incoming traffic.

Now, a City Council member from Staten Island wants his borough to change its rules — starting with a study of which intersections could safely lift a right-on-red ban.

Here's what else is happening:

• Snow likely won't accumulate in New York City tomorrow, but it will be wet and cold and gross all day, officials warn.
• On Jan. 1, Zohran Mamdani is expected to be sworn in as New York City’s 111th mayor. But what if he's actually the 112th and we've been miscounting for 350 years?
• Immigrant advocates are New Yorkers to continue resisting federal immigration enforcement after protestors clashed with the NYPD over the weekend while trying to block ICE operations in Chinatown.
• Starbucks, which allegedly denied thousands of workers stable schedules and cut their hours arbitrarily, will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 workers in what officials are calling the largest worker protection settlement in New York City history.
• Luigi Mangione will return to court in Manhattan today because his lawyers are arguing that police didn't have a proper warrant when they arrested him and searched his backpack in a McDonald's in Pennsylvania.
• James Solomon and Jim McGreevey, the remaining candidates in Jersey City's mayoral race, will clash in a runoff election tomorrow. Here's the issue where the two Democrats have the biggest disagreement.
• Public records show Gov. Kathy Hochul raised thousands of dollars from people she appointed to state boards and councils. She now says she'll refund the money after Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, who's challenging her in a Democratic primary next year, criticized her for the move.

• During their respective corruption trials, Bob and Nadine Menendez tried to throw each other under the bus. Now, they're sad they haven't been allowed prison visits.
• In other New Jersey news, Cory Booker got married.
• Here are three people running for Mamdani's old State Assembly seat.
• The office tower-to-residential building conversion comes with an engineering puzzle: How do you get enough natural light in there?
• Architect Robert A.M. Stern, who designed stately buildings beloved by rich New Yorkers, has died at the age of 86.
• Update on the Long Island duck farm that got decimated by bird flu earlier this year: It's bouncing back.
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• "It's time to lock in and let your winter arc begin."