Liam Quigley

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Liam Quigley

  • I’m not leaving this apartment

    It’s been 10 years since I moved in and I’ve paid $225,501 in rent. Now they want me to leave.

  • NYC Council, Mayor Mamdani agree to end Central Park’s carriage horse industry

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    The New York City Council and Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday announced they plan to ban carriage horses in Central Park.

    CITY COUNCIL MOVES AHEAD WITH CENTRAL PARK CARRIAGE HORSE BAN — WNYC / GOTHAMIST
    WNYC NEWS · OCTOBER 13 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.

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  • Man shot by ICE in NYC still has bullet lodged in neck, attorneys say

    Federal agents opened fire on Belgal’s car while he was driving alongside his 5-year-old son. Belgal started to drive off when the agents moved in to surround his car and at least one of the agents opened fire, federal officials said.

  • NYC wants to move deliveries onto the waterways. It’s starting with a 55-year-old boat.

    New York City’s plan to move thousands of freight deliveries out of trucks and onto the waterways took a small but important step forward when a boat docked in the Bronx to pick up 800 pounds of produce.

    NYC’S BLUE HIGHWAYS PROGRAM AIMS TO REDUCE TRUCKS ON STREETS — WNYC / GOTHAMIST
    WNYC NEWS · OCTOBER 12 2026
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  • Central Park’s car-free loop is busier than ever. Crashes keep piling up.

    “We used to be fighting with the cars,” Beadle said. “Now it’s runners and cyclists. You go at 6 in the morning, 6:30 in the morning, and it’s like the two tribes. The runners on the left, the cyclists on the right.”

  • NYC mulls building temporary highway in sky over Brooklyn Bridge to fix BQE

    New York City may need to build a temporary highway over the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge as part of its plan to repair a crumbling stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, according to documents released this week.

  • NYC eyes higher fines for owners of dirty vacant lots, abandoned construction sites

    Sanitation officials wrote in their notice this week that the current $100 fine “is not enough of a deterrent to ensure that property owners take care of vacant lot conditions throughout the city.”

  • Dump truck driver hits and kills cyclist on 34th Street in Midtown, NYPD says

    The bicyclist and truck driver were both travelling near Seventh Avenue when they collided around 10:51 a.m., police said. Bystanders called 911, but the bicyclist was pronounced dead on the scene by EMS workers.

  • City mulls bike lane for Grand Central Terminal’s elevated street loop

    The elevated section of Park Avenue that snakes around Grand Central Terminal would get a bike lane under a design floated by the city transportation department this week.

  • NYC’s top watchdog launches probe into what mayors knew about post-9/11 air

    New York City’s top watchdog agency has hired a team of lawyers to investigate exactly what city officials knew about health hazards from toxic dust created by the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11.

  • NYC deploys robotoilets. The public bathrooms have a strict 10-minute time limit.

    A suite of high-tech public restrooms has started to land in New York City as part of a push by the mayor’s office to make it easier for people to find a place to go while they’re on the go.

  • Building the Future of NYC

    To kick off All Cooper Weekend, WNYC’s Liam Quigley moderates a panel of Cooper Union alumni featuring City Council Member Shekar Krishnan, artist David Brooks, and architect Savina Romanos. Tickets are Free.

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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.