Let’s start with our top story: Law enforcement reporter Sammy Sussman crunched the NYPD’s own statistics to reveal that cops aren’t writing very many parking tickets in New York’s most notorious placard abuse zone. Yes, NYPD will say that its civilian Traffic Enforcement Agents are writing tickets, but cops aren’t. Hence the story.
We also have a roundup of the candidates to succeed Rep. Nydia Velazquez in her Queens-Brooklyn district.
President Trump sort of inadvertently made an argument for banning horse carriages from Central Park on Thursday when he critiicized the City Council’s 40-7-2 vote to end the Central Park horse carriage industry with an ill-conceived analogy to cars.
The city’s much-anticipated program to require speed-limiting devices inside the cars of repeatedly reckless drivers will launch next year, though questions remain.