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It was a very busy day on Monday, with MTA CEO Janno Lieber letting his frustration with Amtrak boil over into a curse-filled rant about how the federal train system isn’t letting MTA workers get timely access to its tracks to expand Metro-North service.
We also have a story about how the placard elites are dumping their illegally parked cars on Downtown Brooklyn.
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.
The NYPD and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection have cracked down on stores that sell illegal electric two-wheelers, but the city isn’t doing anything about online sales.