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Today’s newsletter offers a silly fake palindrome headline to point out that the City Council is one big contradiction sometimes. Take yesterday’s big budget hearing (which provided us with two stories below).
And don’t miss the second time we put laser beams coming out of Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz’s eyes — but this time as a positive statement on his criticism of Gov. Hochul’s insurance premium ploy.
Motoclick admitted to paying workers between $3.67 and $4.67 per hour in May — less than a quarter of the city’s minimum pay rate of $22.13, the city said.
A single unmarked NYPD car has been nabbed by city speeding cameras hundreds of times over the past three years — but there’s no paperwork disputing the tickets as essential to police work.