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.

  • PUBLIC SPACE Sticker of an NYPD flatbed truck hauling a load of metal barricades

  • Mamdani pledged support for NYC street vendors. Now they’re facing a crackdown.

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    Tickets issued by Parks Enforcement Patrol for unlawful vending reached 2,237 by the end of September, jumping 671 tickets — or 43% — from the same time in 2025.

  • Central Park’s car-free loop is busier than ever. Crashes keep piling up.

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    “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.”

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

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    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.

    THE PRIVATE CLUB AT JACOB RIIS — WNYC
    BRIAN LEHRER SHOW · AUGUST 2026
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  • Manhattan’s Park Avenue would look more like a park under plan pushed by Mamdani

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    The city transportation department released new designs for an overhaul of the street north of the MetLife building up to East 57th Street that would widen its pedestrian medians by removing a traffic lane in each direction.

  • PARKS Sticker of an orange NYC Parks crane truck with a forester at the controls of its boom

  • Summer of smell at Sunset Park: City creates de facto dump at Brooklyn greenspace

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    The city parks department has turned a stretch of Brooklyn’s Sunset Park into a de facto garbage dump in order to handle all the trash collected from the popular green space each weekend.

  • De facto dump in Brooklyn bursts into flames after discarded battery explodes

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    A garbage dump that has festered at an entrance to a Brooklyn park throughout the summer caught on fire on Tuesday after city officials said a lithium-ion battery nestled in its depths burst into flames.

  • Here are the dead animals New Yorkers found in Prospect Park over the last 4 years

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    Visitors to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park are reporting dead animals in increasing numbers, according to parks department records obtained via a freedom of information request.

  • TRASH REVOLUTION Sticker of an orange NYC Sanitation front loader

  • Mamdani to swap parking spots for more than 6,500 curbside Empire Bins across NYC

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    Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Friday that the city will roll out the Spanish-made Empire Bins for the first time in the Bronx, Staten Island and Queens, and expand their use in Manhattan and Brooklyn, by the end of 2027.

  • NYC plans to replace nearly 30K parking spaces with trash bins

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    The bins could erase 29,842 on-street parking spots by 2032, according to the environmental documents. The sanitation department notes that’s just 1.52% of the city’s 1.96 million legal street parking spots.

  • NYC’s ‘trash revolution’ gets new general as Mamdani names his sanitation chief

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    Anderson’s appointment comes at a critical time for the department. He’ll be responsible for completing the rollout of the city’s trash collection program, which will require the city to figure out how to eliminate its notorious mountains of garbage bags and replace them with bins.

  • NYPD Sticker of an NYPD supervisor bent over, tying crime-scene tape; the tape runs off the edge of the page

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

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    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 I learned researching every drunk driving cop for three years

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    I collected 217 alleged drunk driving incidents involving NYPD officers dating to 2001. I used press clips, an NYPD disciplinary database, and in a few cases, an obscure federal road safety tracker. Here’s what I learned.

  • Snowball-gate: Washington Square Park incident pits Mamdani against NYPD

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    “It looks like a snowball fight,” Mamdani said. But did it?

  • TOW TRUCKS Sticker of a gray pickup tow truck driving through an intersection

  • Special investigation: How New York City lost control of the tow truck industry

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    Liam Quigley walks through the Ghost Fleet investigation on WNYC and NYC Now: how thousands of tow trucks operate outside the city’s licensing system, and who pays for it.

    SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: HOW NEW YORK CITY LOST CONTROL OF THE TOW TRUCK INDUSTRY
    WNYC / NYC NOW · FEBRUARY 11 2026
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  • 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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  • NYC puts tow truck operators on notice following Gothamist investigation

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    New York City consumer protection officials are putting hundreds of tow truck companies on notice, warning they’ll swiftly revoke licenses from operators that rip off drivers.

  • MORE STORIESSticker of a hand-painted yellow sign: $300 cash, car-truck condition, on the spot

  • 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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  • Mamdani pledged support for NYC street vendors. Now they’re facing a crackdown.

    Tickets issued by Parks Enforcement Patrol for unlawful vending reached 2,237 by the end of September, jumping 671 tickets — or 43% — from the same time in 2025.

  • Trash containers take over Brooklyn parking spaces as NYC gets garbage bags off sidewalks

    The trash revolution is alive and well in some of Brooklyn’s busiest neighborhoods.

  • NYC’s horse carriage drivers feel betrayed as lawmakers set to abolish industry

    Animal rights activists have for decades called for carriage horses to be banned in the city, saying it’s inhumane for horses to pull carts across Manhattan’s traffic-choked streets. But horse carriage drivers argue they’re an integral part of the city’s tourist scene that’s being forced out of business unfairly.

  • 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.

QUEENS 2014 VIEW PHOTOS

  • 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.