Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about license plates

Monday’s Headlines: A Big Week for Streetsblog Edition

By Streetsblog Editorial Board | Apr 3, 2023 | No Comments

Today, we launch a three-part investigation into the black market for fraudulent temporary license plates by Jesse Coburn that has been seven months in the making. Plus other news.

This is the guy who got the ticket. Note the last number is "0."

Wednesday’s Headlines: Vindication Edition

By Streetsblog Editorial Board | Mar 29, 2023 | No Comments

Here's a criminal mischief update! Plus other news.

The plate clearly ends in 0, but this driver got a ticket because a driver covered the 8 on his plate so that it looked like a 0.

CYCLE OF RAGE: The Human Cost of ‘Criminal Mischief’

By Gersh Kuntzman | Feb 17, 2023 | No Comments

Don't tell these people that plate defacing is a victimless crime.

Data: Unreadable Plates Soared Last Year, Foiling Speed and Red-Light Cameras

By Gersh Kuntzman | Feb 13, 2023 | No Comments

The problem of cars evading speed, red-light and bus-lane cameras with defaced or covered plates has gotten markedly worse — with more than 7 percent of plates that triggered automated enforcement cameras last summer proving to be unreadable.

Give him your tired, your poorly treated plates. Or not.

ROWBACK: State DMV Clarifies How to Rat Out Help Out Your Plate-Defacing Neighbor

By Gersh Kuntzman | Feb 13, 2023 | No Comments

On second thought, don't send him your pictures of your neighbors' defaced plates!

Adam White (left) was arrested by NYPD after Sholem Klein called them about White's attempt to undeface Klein's plate.

EXCLU: Driver Who Sicced NYPD on Lawyer Adam White For ‘Criminal Mischief’ on Defaced Plate is Cop-Adjacent

By Julianne Cuba | Feb 9, 2023 | No Comments

The driver who called police on attorney Adam White after he fixed the obscured license plate on a Chevy SUV in November is cozy with law enforcement, Streetsblog has learned.

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