Cross Promotion . . .

Ed Skyler has internalized it:

The free ride is finally over for thousands of privileged parkers, with the city yanking more than 25,000 permits in a sweeping overhaul yesterday of a gilded system that for years has infuriated regular motorists.

Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler said 32 percent of the 80,770 official parking placards used by 68 different agencies had been withdrawn.

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Skyler insisted that vehicles with expired permits and those bearing placards issued without authority by uniformed unions — the bane of many irate motorists trying to find a parking spot — would now be ticketed. “You might as well have Time magazine on your windshield [as an expired permit],” he said. “It’ll be just as effective.”

Because speaking of Time Magazine:

Mayor Bloomberg went out on a limb — and it got him named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.

The magazine posed him on a tree outside City Hall on April 18 to illustrate his commitment to environmental issues.

Happily, the mayor — who rode to his perch on a cherry picker — was safe from any dive-bombing birds. His security guard was planted firmly in a flower bed below him.

And that’s a commitment to environmental issues, not constitutional issues:

In a blow to Mayor Bloomberg’s campaign to get guns off the streets, a federal appeals court shot down a suit by the city that sought to make firearm makers responsible for the illegal sale of weapons.

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan tossed out the lawsuit in light of a 2005 law that Congress crafted in direct response to the city’s claims. The 2-to-1 split opinion overturned an earlier ruling by Brooklyn federal Judge Jack Weinstein, who was poised to start a trial in the case when Congress approved the law.

Bloomberg said he is “disappointed,” but vowed to continue his fight against illegal guns through another lawsuit targeting crooked dealers and pawnshops.