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The streets around our offices in Lower Manhattan were filled on Tuesday with federal agents seeking to arrest illegal vendors in a crackdown that had nothing to do with violent crime and everything to do with intimidation.
We were there in a special edition of today’s headlines.
But please leave room for desert, in the form of our other stories.
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.