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MOVING BROOKLYN
SCOOT!
City nixes new
scooter share
company in
Williamsburg
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
What the dock!?
City transportation gurus
served Brooklyn’s fi rst
docked e-scooter sharing company
White Fox Scooters with
a cease and desist letter on
April 23, claiming that the outof
state company illegally set
up shop in the borough when
city law does not yet allow for
e-scooter sharing services.
Senior offi cials with the
Department of Transportation
sent a letter to the New
Jersey-based fi rm’s founder
and chief executive offi cer Siddharth
Saxena, ordering him
to immediately remove the
battery-powered two-wheelers
and their docking station at
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