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GHOST TAGS: Inside NYC’s Black Market for Temporary License Plates // Part 3: The Buyers
In the final part of our three-part series, Streetsblog introduces you to the people who buy illegal temporary license plates.
April 5, 2023
#StuckAtDOT: It Takes Years (and Years) to Get a Speed Hump in this City
A Brooklyn City Council member has a simple question for the Department of Transportation: Why does it take years and years (and sometimes years and years and years) to put in a simple speed bump?
November 11, 2022
MARCH (PARKING) MADNESS: Two Queens Precincts that Are Simply Outrageous
Welcome to the borough finals in our annual contest looking at rogue police parking. In Queens, we have a rematch of last year's battle pitting the 110th vs. the 114th.
March 21, 2022
Truck Driver Kills Scooter Rider Near New Queens ‘Protected’ Bike Lane
An e-scooter delivery worker is dead after getting run over by the driver of a massive beer distribution truck in Queens.
November 12, 2020
VIDEO: Cyclist is Killed by Reckless Trucker in Williamsburg — First of the Year
The first cyclist of 2020 has been killed in Brooklyn.
January 30, 2020
Op-Ed: Bike Lane Missing? Danger Found
A group bike ride around Brooklyn shows that DOT has its work cut out for it. Here are small fixes that could keep cyclists and pedestrians alive.
August 23, 2019
LAUGHABLE: The NYPD is the Front Line of Mayor de Blasio’s ‘Crackdown’ on Bike Lane Parkers?
Mayor de Blasio's announcement that he had ordered the NYPD to crackdown on reckless drivers and cars parked in bike lanes is being ridiculed for one key reason: NYPD officers routinely drive recklessly in their personal cars and often park in bike lanes.
July 2, 2019
SEE IT: Video Shows Bus Driver Killing Citi Bike Rider Dan Hanegby
More evidence that bus driver Dave Lewis is to blame for the crash that killed a Citi Bike rider last year.
September 20, 2018
How to Repair a Parking Crater in Three Steps
[Before we started up the bracket for this year's Parking Madness tournament, I got in touch with Donald Shoup, who literally wrote the book on parking reform, and asked him to pick the worst parking crater in the field of 16. Here's his response, packaged with some advice for cities that have a parking crater problem. -- Angie Schmitt]
April 8, 2015
Streetsblog Files TLC Complaint Over Reported West Village Fatality
Streetsblog has filed a complaint with the Taxi and Limousine Commission over a crash that reportedly killed a pedestrian in the West Village.
May 9, 2012