City Streets Become Slaughter Houses, School Buses Still A Mess, Brooklyn Diocese Sex Abuse, BQX, and more links.

Schools officials bypassed full background checks for more than 100 bus drivers (NYDN)

Another year, another set of NYC school bus fiascos (NYP Editorializes)

Brooklyn Diocese Is Part of $27.5 Million Settlement in 4 Sex Abuse Cases (NYT)

City’s BQX czar heads for the door (Politico)
Ritual Jewish Chicken Slaughter Met With Vegan Protests In Crown Heights (Gothamist)
19 Stand-Out Restaurants and Bars in Red Hook (Eater)
NYC’s drab construction fences will get an artsy upgrade. The city is launching a pilot program to enliven the city’s construction fencing and sidewalk sheds. (Curbed)

Unacceptable. Unreal.

We all deserve better than this. https://t.co/VrinG4Yu9H

— Corey Johnson (@CoreyinNYC) September 18, 2018

CityViews: Abolish NYCHA? No Way! (by Council Member Alicka Ampry-Samuel -41st District and the Chair of the Public Housing Committee and Susan Stamler. City Limits)

New York bans the use of federal, state money to buy guns for schools (Chalkbeat)

.@NYGovCuomo announces a rebate program designed specifically for the installation of #EV charging stations at workplaces, office buildings, multi-family apartment buildings & public locations furthering his #cleanenergy goal to reduce #GHG by 40% by 2030. https://t.co/BVs4L32z6W

— NY Power Authority (@NYPAenergy) September 18, 2018