Erosion is rapidly washing away the shoreline of Jacob Riis Park in Rockaway — and the National Park Service says the ongoing problem has created “extremely hazardous” swimming conditions in an area of the beach where two teenage boys were swept out to sea last week.
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Erosion is causing ‘extremely hazardous’ conditions on Riis Beach, where 2 teens were swept to sea
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Hey, check out the cool (and fake!) plates you can order with a few mouse clicks
Paper temp tags are so last year. You can get real metal plates — untraceable ones — all over the internet.
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Why you should care that the NYPD is encrypting their radio communication
I looked at the data and found cops have only arrested 77 people in the last 16 years for illegal radio use.
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NYC waste reform has a dump-truck-sized blind spot
Many of the most dangerous vehicles registered to haul waste in the city won’t be covered in new system meant to reduce deaths.
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NYPD tow truck driver fatally strikes 7-Year-old Boy in Fort Greene: ‘She was on her phone’
“If it wasn’t for the housing workers and all the people outside stopping her from moving, she would have kept going.”
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Mayor Adams says we can buy beers on the Staten Island Ferry again (eventually)
The concession stands that for years offered beers and snacks on the Staten Island Ferry closed and never came back after the pandemic, so I asked the mayor about it and he said he’ll bring them back.
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NYC Slice
Starting in 2014, I logged every slice of pizza I ate in New York City on the Instagram account NYC Slice. The results shown below are collected from 464 slices. Over eight years the average price of a plain slice increased from $2.52 to $3.00. This calculation excludes dollar slices.
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Jail honchos threaten to intercept and digitize mail sent to incarcerated people in NYC
As New York City’s jail system emerges from its deadliest year in a decade, a controversial proposal to intercept and digitize mail sent to incarcerated people will be reviewed by an internal committee, officials with the Board of Correction announced on Tuesday.
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At NYC school with sharpest drop in math scores, high poverty, crowded classrooms and a recent gun scare
At the Brooklyn school that saw the sharpest drop in math scores in the city since 2019, classrooms are chronically overcrowded, 81% of students have experienced poverty and students recently had to pass through metal detectors before going to class.
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The Illegal License Plate Covers Are Coming From Inside the Adams Administration
The Brooklyn director of the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit was driving a Jeep with illegal license plate covers and flashing police lights.
