Liam Quigley

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Liam Quigley

  • The private club opening at Jacob Riis, “The People’s Beach”

    A new private club is slated to open this month at Jacob Riis Park on the Rockaway Peninsula. Dubbed “The Peoples Beach,” the park has a long history as an informal gathering place for the LGBTQ community. Liam Quigley, parks and sanitation reporter for Gothamist/WNYC, unpacks the status of the project, whose opening has been delayed several times this summer, including why some beachgoers are unhappy with the plan; plus listeners weigh in with their thoughts on the club and the beach’s storied history.

    THE PRIVATE CLUB AT JACOB RIIS — WNYC
    BRIAN LEHRER SHOW · AUGUST 2026
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  • Parts of Manhattan to sacrifice 10% of street parking as NYC installs new trash bins

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    The Upper West and East sides of Manhattan are set to lose about 10% of their street parking as the city installs new curbside trash containers to get garbage bags off the sidewalk

  • Queens body shop owner uses illegal tow truck scheme to flaunt wealthy ‘f—ing life’

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    “If you’re tired of being broke, watching TV, watching us in these trucks, watching where we are, hit us up and we’ll get you there,” David Borukhov told his 45,000 followers on Instagram as he hopped out of an unlicensed tow truck earlier this month.

    QUEENS BODY SHOP TOW SCHEME — WNYC / GOTHAMIST
    NYC NOW · MAY 2026
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  • Ghost fleet: How New York City lost control of the tow truck industry

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    A Gothamist analysis of speeding and red light camera data reveals the number of unlicensed tow trucks in the city has increased from 54 in 2021 to at least 712 today. Meanwhile, the number of licensed tow trucks has fallen from 995 in 2021 to 764 today.

    GHOST FLEET — WNYC / GOTHAMIST
    THE BRIAN LEHRER SHOW · FEBRUARY 2026
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  • NYC Wegmans is storing biometric data on shoppers’ eyes, voices and faces

    Anyone entering the store could have data on their face, eyes and voices collected and stored by the Rochester-headquartered supermarket chain. The information is used to “protect the safety and security of our patrons and employees,” according to the signage. The new scanning policy is an expansion of a 2024 pilot.

    NYC WEGMANS — WNYC / NYC NOW
    NYC NOW · MARCH 11 2026
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  • Trash hauler won coveted garbage pickup rights after donating to Mayor Adams’ campaign

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    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.

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

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

    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.

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

    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.

  • Plainclothes NYPD Cops Are Involved in a Staggering Number of Killings

    An analysis by The Intercept, using data from the Fatal Encounters project, found that plainclothes cops play a role in such killings disproportionate to their relatively small numbers among the NYPD's ranks. Plainclothes police have been involved in nearly a third of all fatal shooting incidents recorded since 2000, according to The Intercept study. With George Joseph.

  • What’s In The Hole?

    A web series investigating the unseen infrastructure underneath the streets of New York City. With Daryl Meador.

  • 9/269

    In 2014, 269 people died in New York City traffic crashes. Twenty bicyclists died as a result of these crashes. Of those twenty, nine remain unidentified to the public and some have not been named at all. This book was made from photographs taken at the sites of each of these nine crashes.

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Liam Quigley is a New York City-based reporter and photographer with work appearing in The Village Voice, The Intercept, Hell Gate, the New York Daily News, The New York Times, and more.

Liam Quigley is a New York City-based reporter and photographer with work appearing in The Village Voice, The Intercept, Hell Gate, the New York Daily News, The New York Times, and more.