Wednesday’s Headlines: Vindication Edition
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Here's a criminal mischief update! Plus other news.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Streetsblog Gets Action
City Begins Long Process of Making it Harder to Evade Speed Cameras
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Scores of online vendors are still selling egregious plate obscurers, and even a brick-and-mortar retailer that had been warned by the city was still hawking an illegal cover.
Mayor Announces ‘Charge Safe’ Plan to Help Delivery Workers Get Legal Bikes, Safe Batteries
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Parks and greenways would also finally allow legal electric bikes ... finally.
Cycle of Rage: One Hand Whitewashes the Other on NYPD Plate Defacing
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A field report after Streetsblog seeks disciplinary records on 12 cops who defaced their plates.
March (Parking) Madness Begins: A First-Round Bath Beach vs. Crown Heights Battle
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The two precincts in this First Round battle certainly showed some of the egregious behavior that we've come to expect from police officers in the City of New York
Streetsblog Gets Action: Battery ‘Buy-Back’ Program and Other Lithium-Ion Bills Advance in Council
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A Manhattan Council member introduced legislation on Thursday that would create a citywide "buy back" program for uncertified lithium-ion batteries that have sparked dozens of fires — a proposal that comes two weeks after Streetsblog proposed it (see inset).