Many of the most dangerous vehicles registered to haul waste in the city won’t be covered in new system meant to reduce deaths.
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NYC waste reform has a dump-truck-sized blind spot
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NYPD tow truck driver fatally strikes 7-Year-old Boy in Fort Greene: ‘She was on her phone’
“If it wasn’t for the housing workers and all the people outside stopping her from moving, she would have kept going.”
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Mayor Adams says we can buy beers on the Staten Island Ferry again (eventually)
The concession stands that for years offered beers and snacks on the Staten Island Ferry closed and never came back after the pandemic, so I asked the mayor about it and he said he’ll bring them back.
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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.
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Jail honchos threaten to intercept and digitize mail sent to incarcerated people in NYC
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.
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At NYC school with sharpest drop in math scores, high poverty, crowded classrooms and a recent gun scare
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.
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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.
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NYPD pursues speedy justice as drag racers, daredevils remain a problem on NYC streets, highways
It’s a cat and mouse game — but the mice drive too fast and recklessly and are not always held accountable, even when cops nab them. With Rocco Parascandola.
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‘Eager Beaver’: For Highest-Paid NYC Correction Captain, There’s Plenty of Work Outside Rikers
Violence in NYC jails recently hit all-time record highs. Why is the Correction Department’s highest-paid captain moonlighting for the federal government?
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SPEED DEMON: PBA President Pat Lynch is Driven Around Really Fast!
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.
