Ex-state lawmaker avoids jail in pill rap

plastic bollards or concrete curbs to separate bikes from cars, a design that has proven to save lives. Under the city’s guidelines, a bike lane may also be considered “protected” merely if there is space between the bike and car lanes.

De Blasio said his plan is more “realistic” than City Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s plan to build 250 new miles of protected bike lanes by 2024.

“This is a major step forward,” Johnson said of the mayor’s plan. “The Council will continue working to pass my bill to design a comprehensive plan for city streets.”

Green Wave also directs the NYPD to crack down on trucks, which have been involved in more than 40% of cyclist fatalities this year. Drivers who block bike lanes will also be hit with more tickets, the mayor said.

Under the plan, the DOT will redesign 50 dangerous intersections where cyclists are regularly hit to reduce dangerous driving.

The plan incorporates several measures already underway, including a law passed by City Council Tuesday that allows cyclists to follow pedestrian signals instead of traffic lights at some 3,000 intersections.

“A lot of what they mayor has announced are things happening throughout the city in a piecemeal approach,” said Councilman Ben Kallos (DManhattan).

“In my neighborhood (the Upper East Side), people are already getting bike safety education and bike safety enforcement,” Kallos said. “But without a citywide approach, it won’t change behavior.”

DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said the new bike lanes will eliminate “thousands” of parking spaces. Opposition to elimination of parking spaces has stalled installation of new bike lanes for more than a decade.

The DOT will get 80 additional staffers to help implement the plan. A former Brooklyn state lawmaker was acquitted of conspiracy charges involving an opioid pillpushing scheme by a Manhattan jury on Thursday after a twomonth trial.

But ex-Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny is not off the hook — a Manhattan Supreme Court judge declared a mistrial on three counts of commercial bribery, and the jury hung on several other charges.

It’s unclear if the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor will retry Moscow-born Brook-Krasny, 61, who represented Coney Island, Brighton Beach and adjacent neighborhoods in the Assembly from 2006 to 2015.

Prosecutors said Brook-Krasny provided the political juice that allowed 72-year-old Lazar Feygin, a doctor, to operate an opioid-peddling ring out of two clinics.

Brook-Krasny “offered his political connection, his knowledge and his assistance” to supporting Feygin’s clinics, prosecutor Tess Cohen said in her summation.

The ex-Assembly member, who worked for a medical lab company, was allegedly in a business relationship with Feygin’s clinics, the Special Narcotics Prosecutor said.

Brook-Krasny and Feygin were among 13 people arrested for facilitating and running the multi-million dollar operation. Starting in 2012, they pushed at least $6 million in prescription painkillers while defrauding Medicaid and Medicare, prosecutors argued.

Feygin distributed the drugs from two medical practices — Parkville Medical Health in Kensington and LF Medical Services of NY in Clinton Hill. The clinics raked in $16 million over a five year period, authorities said.

Feygin pleaded guilty to several charges earlier this year and was expected to get five years in prison.

He and his staff prescribed 3.7 million pills between 2012 and 2017.

The jury was hung on all counts against Marie Nazaire, a physcian assistant at Feygin’s clinic, who was tried with Brook-Krasny.