Jesse Coburn
Jesse Coburn is Streetsblog's investigative reporter. His reporting has received a Sigma Award, a Casey Feldman Award, and awards from the Silurians Press Club and the Overseas Press Club Foundation. Previously he was a reporter at Newsday and an editor at ARCH+. He’s also written for the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, Harper’s, Cabinet and other publications. Jesse is is on Twitter at @jesse_coburn. His email address is jesse@streetsblog.org.
Recent Posts
City Hall Condemns Death Threats to 311 User Who Filed Illegal Parking Complaint to NYPD
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The statement followed a Streetsblog story Wednesday about the series of threatening phone calls a Park Slope resident received after he filed a 311 complaint to the NYPD about a truck parked illegally in a bus stop.
Death Threats Follow Brooklyn Man's Complaints to 311 and NYPD
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The calls were by far the most extreme of any documented by Streetsblog in its investigation of 311.
Sanitation Driver Hits and Kills Moped Rider at Dangerous Brooklyn Intersection
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A Sanitation truck driver struck and killed a man on a motorized scooter or moped on Tuesday night in an industrial part of Brooklyn after making an apparently dangerous, though legal, turn.
Vision Zero Epicenters: 5 Dangerous Neighborhoods that Should Be on Eric Adams’s Agenda
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Streetsblog crunched the numbers to reveal the neighborhoods that most need safety improvements. An analysis for a new administration.
City Investigating NYPD 311 Harassment Allegations After Streetsblog Report
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The Department of Investigation said agency staffers were probing allegations that Streetsblog reported two months ago.
Are Cops Writing the Tickets They Say They Are Following 311 Complaints?
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The NYPD rarely reports ticketing drivers in response to 311 complaints about blocked bike lanes, city data shows. But a new Streetsblog analysis raises doubts whether officers are even writing the tickets that they say they are.
Mayor Won’t Change Uber and Lyft Insurance Rules that Shortchange City Crash Victims
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Mayor de Blasio will not close a gap in insurance requirements that allows Uber and Lyft taxi drivers to have far less coverage when they are carrying passengers in New York City than anywhere else in the state.
Mayor Vows to Investigate Alleged Harassment of 311 Users After Recent Streetsblog Investigation
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"Whether [such calls are] coming from a city employee or someplace else, it's not good," the mayor said when asked about the alleged harassment. "What we need to know is what happened in those cases."
Amid Multiple Investigations, NYPD Defends Its 311 Response at Council Hearing
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City Council members voiced frustration with the NYPD's handling of 311 complaints about illegal parking at a hearing Tuesday, but police officials defended the department's efforts.
Council Member Calls For Probe of Alleged 311 Harassment
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And meanwhile, Council Member Bob Holden told Streetsblog he has also been the victim of "inappropriate" calls from cops.
NYPD Ignores Council Request for Info on Allegedly Fraudulent 311 Responses
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Council leaders had asked the NYPD to provide materials related to 14 311 service requests about illegal parking that police officers had marked as resolved despite never responding to the scenes of the infractions, according to council investigators.
IGNORED, DISMISSED: How the NYPD Neglects 311 Complaints about Driver Misconduct
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NYPD cops now close out thousands of 311 complaints about driver misconduct in mere minutes, contributing to a culture of lawlessness on city streets, a Streetsblog investigation into more than 26 million 311 complaints shows.