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Wednesday’s Headlines: Vindication Edition
Here's a criminal mischief update! Plus other news.
March 29, 2023
City Begins Long Process of Making it Harder to Evade Speed Cameras
Scores of online vendors are still selling egregious plate obscurers, and even a brick-and-mortar retailer that had been warned by the city was still hawking an illegal cover.
March 21, 2023
Mayor Announces ‘Charge Safe’ Plan to Help Delivery Workers Get Legal Bikes, Safe Batteries
Parks and greenways would also finally allow legal electric bikes ... finally.
March 20, 2023
Cycle of Rage: One Hand Whitewashes the Other on NYPD Plate Defacing
A field report after Streetsblog seeks disciplinary records on 12 cops who defaced their plates.
March 9, 2023
March (Parking) Madness Begins: A First-Round Bath Beach vs. Crown Heights Battle
The two precincts in this First Round battle certainly showed some of the egregious behavior that we've come to expect from police officers in the City of New York
March 8, 2023
Streetsblog Gets Action: Battery ‘Buy-Back’ Program and Other Lithium-Ion Bills Advance in Council
A Manhattan Council member introduced legislation on Thursday that would create a citywide "buy back" program for uncertified lithium-ion batteries that have sparked dozens of fires — a proposal that comes two weeks after Streetsblog proposed it (see inset).
March 2, 2023
ROWBACK: State DMV Clarifies How to Rat Out Help Out Your Plate-Defacing Neighbor
On second thought, don't send him your pictures of your neighbors' defaced plates!
February 13, 2023
Brooklyn Pols Demand the State ‘Come to the Table’ on the BQE
More than a dozen Brooklyn lawmakers said they don't want DOT's Brooklyn-Queens Expressway plan: It's the highway or the highway.
February 10, 2023
Thursday’s Headlines: ‘Inside Edition’ Gets Action Edition
You won't be-leaf this — our editor was on a national news show!
February 9, 2023
State Car Boss: ‘Send Me Pictures of Defaced Plates!’
The commissioner of the state Department of Motor Vehicles told New Yorkers to send him pictures of defaced license plates so that his agency can address the problem ... by sending the registered owner a new set of clean tags on the house.
February 8, 2023