Liam Quigley

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  • NYC Slice

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    date: 2014-2022
    January 10, 2023

    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 an eight-year period the average price of a plain slice increased from $2.52 to $3.00. This calculation excludes dollar slices.

  • At NYC school with sharpest drop in math scores, high poverty, crowded classrooms and a recent gun scare

    Gothamist
    November 6, 2022

    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.

  • The Illegal License Plate Covers Are Coming From Inside the Adams Administration

    Hell Gate
    investigation
    November 4, 2022

    The Brooklyn director of the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit was driving a Jeep with illegal license plate covers and flashing police lights.

  • ‘Eager Beaver’: For Highest-Paid NYC Correction Captain, There’s Plenty of Work Outside Rikers

    Hell Gate
    investigation
    June 28, 2022

    Violence in NYC jails recently hit all-time record highs. Why is the Correction Department’s highest-paid captain moonlighting for the federal government?

  • SPEED DEMON: PBA President Pat Lynch is Driven Around Really Fast!

    Streetsblog
    investigation
    January 24, 2022

    Last week after two police officers bravely ran into a burning building in The Bronx to save an elderly woman, police union head Patrick Lynch rushed to the scene. Perhaps too quickly: the 2021 Chevy Suburban in which Lynch was chauffeured has a staggering 29 school-zone speeding violations since 2016.

  • Two-thirds of NYC school buses have speeding, red light camera tickets

    NY DAILY NEWS
    investigation
    October 11, 2021

    Some New York City school bus drivers have a need for speed, racking up a total of thousands of traffic tickets for recklessly operating the big yellow vehicles that carry roughly 150,000 schoolkids every day. With Michael Elsen-Rooney and Clayton Guse.

  • Dangerous drivers still on city streets despite thousands of speeding tickets

    City Limits
    investigation
    January 15, 2020

    A months-long investigation led to a Nassau County address linked to the vehicle and a man who claims his employer paid all the tickets. It’s one of a limited number of cases where thousands of dollars in fines have proven ineffective at changing behavior and highlights a blindspot of the city’s Vision Zero initiative.

  • In fight over trash zone system, Queens residents demand ‘waste equity’

    amNewYork
    September 5, 2019
  • Garbage trucks registered with BIC run red lights at alarming rate: Analysis

    amNewYork
    investigation
    August 29, 2019

    Vehicles registered with the Business Integrity Commission have been caught speeding past schools and running red lights at an alarming rate, according to an amNewYork analysis of traffic camera violations.

  • Staten Islanders are patrolling ICE hot spots to help protect immigrants

    amNewYork
    August 1, 2019

    On a sweltering afternoon on Staten Island, César Vargas kept a close eye on the cars lining the street outside Richmond County Supreme Court. Vargas, a newly minted Army Reserve specialist and one of the first undocumented immigrants admitted to the New York State Bar, walked by an idling unmarked police car concealing a large tattooed man with a gun.