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Let’s end the week with a bit of intrigue and mystery to start your weekend. Our law enforcement reporter Sammy Sussman has been seeing a New Jersey-plated car parked in a judge’s spot with a legitimate New York State court placard. What’s going on? He tried to find out (don’t expect an answer — it’s Chinatown, Jack).
And don’t miss our other stories, including today’s headlines. Have a great dry weekend.
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.