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Before congestion pricing was implemented this year, there was a lot of concern — some of it raised in these pages — that traffic would divert into the south Bronx. But traffic expert Charles Komanoff crunched the numbers and found that the traffic never materialized.
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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.