Sammy Sussman

Eleven fraudulent car dealers — including several who were identified in Streetsblog's award-winning 2023 investigation — sold more than 100,000 fake temporary tags, robbing taxpayers of about $15 million and turning those vehicles into "ghost cars" that were involved in at least six homicides, federal prosecutors said this week.

Troopers based in NYC routinely blew off their duties to chill, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one notorious case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assault, Streetsblog has learned.

The NYPD will double the number of officers on foot posts this summer — evidence that the NYPD is starting to see the benefit of cops on the beat and not just driving around.

The NYPD's inspector general is operating with one-third its onetime staff — and Mamdani only plans to fill some of the empty posts.

Absolute placard corrupts absolutely, but a fake placard is even worse!

The crash occurred as kids were headed to school in a neighborhood filled with children and known for crashes.