While news of an arrest in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO dominated headlines on Dec. 9, newly appointed NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch quietly launched another search of her own: determining the whereabouts of hundreds of on-duty officers.
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New NYPD commissioner reverses transfers of hundreds of ‘hiding’ officers
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Scion of Bronx trash empire with spotty safety record sidesteps NYC commercial waste reform
The heir to a disgraced Bronx trash empire is teaming up with a politically connected waste hauler to form a trash collection syndicate — a move that could undermine ongoing reforms of the city’s notoriously corrupt private garbage industry.
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Trash hauler won coveted garbage pickup rights after donating to Mayor Adams’ campaign
New York City’s campaign watchdog is scrutinizing a series of donations to Mayor Eric Adams’ 2021 campaign by owners and employees of a Queens waste hauling company that later won a set of coveted licenses from the sanitation department.
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Erosion is causing ‘extremely hazardous’ conditions on Riis Beach, where 2 teens were swept to sea
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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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.
