HOT TOWN: ‘Cool Streets’ Program Marred By Grave Danger — Cars
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The city's “Cool Streets” program — which launched Monday with just 16 blocks as car-free play streets with open fire hydrants for kids — is functionally useless.
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Recklessly Driving Brooklyn Cop Has Gotten 12 More Speeding Tickets Since Last Year
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Some cops never learn — and never get taught a lesson by their superiors.
Jay Street Busway Will Do More To Stop Placard Abuse Than the NYPD Ever Did
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Two out of every three parked cars on the stretch between Livingston and Tillary streets had "parking permits" in their windshield — and more than one-third were total shams, the DOT said.
Carpocalypse Building Slower in Manhattan Than in Outer Boroughs
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With driving rising, but still down, advocates ask whether the city will install the infrastructure New Yorkers need.
COVID Pandemic Provides Temporary Cure for NYPD Addiction to SUVs
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In the fiscal year just ended, the NYPD bought fewer new vehicles — and the fewest SUVs by percentage since the agency started shifting to the bigger, bulkier, more intimidating and more dangerous assault cars during the 2010s.
SEE IT! Here’s a Doomsday Subway Map if Trump Tells MTA To ‘Drop Dead’
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Ever seen a subway map with no subway lines on it? Get ready, New York.