Liam Quigley

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  • NYC’s flying ‘Fan Man’ demands NYPD return his fan after he soars near Verrazzano Bridge

    hidden, Gothamist
    2025-1104
    November 4, 2025

    A 40-year-old Brooklynite who soars above the city like a superhero using a parachute and motorized propeller strapped to his back has been grounded by the NYPD. With Ramsey Khalifeh.

  • New NYPD commissioner reverses transfers of hundreds of ‘hiding’ officers

    hidden, Gothamist
    December 19, 2024

    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.

  • Scion of Bronx trash empire with spotty safety record sidesteps NYC commercial waste reform

    hidden, Investigations, Gothamist
    October 7, 2024

    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.

  • Hey, check out the cool (and fake!) plates you can order with a few mouse clicks

    hidden, Streetsblog
    2024-0130
    January 30, 2024

    Paper temp tags are so last year. You can get real metal plates — untraceable ones — all over the internet.

  • Jail honchos threaten to intercept and digitize mail sent to incarcerated people in NYC

    hidden, Queens Daily Eagle
    date: 2023-0111
    December 31, 2022

    As New York City’s jail system emerges from its deadliest year in a decade, a controversial proposal to intercept and digitize mail sent to incarcerated people will be reviewed by an internal committee, officials with the Board of Correction announced on Tuesday.

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

    hidden, 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.

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

    hidden, amNewYork
    September 5, 2019
  • Autonomous cars hit the streets at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

    hidden, amNewYork
    August 7, 2019

    A fleet of autonomous cars hit the pavement in the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Tuesday, marking the first commercial deployment of self-driving cars in the Empire State.