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City Council Vows To Crack Down On Parking Placard Abuse, For Real This Time You Guys
'If the mayor and the mayor's deputies and commissioners wanted to stop this, they could order it stopped.'
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Jake Offenhartz
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Eight Busted In Parking Fraud Scheme As Official Placard Abuse Rolls Right Along
Eight people were arrested on Tuesday for their involvement in a forged parking placard scam.
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Jake Offenhartz
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NYPD Implemented Impromptu "Tow Away" Zone To Create Parking Spaces For Department's Flag Football Game
They reportedly towed about 30 cars to create parking spaces for attendees and players.
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Claire Lampen
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De Blasio's Placard Abuse Crackdown: Three Strikes And More NYPD Parking Spaces
None of the mayor's new reforms aim to reduce the number of placards, or determine how many city employees actually need them to do their jobs.
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Christopher Robbins
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City Council Tries To Crack Down On Parking Placard Abuse
There are roughly 124,000 city-issued parking placards out on the city's streets, and that figure doesn't include state-issued placards.
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Christopher Robbins
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Over 3,500 311 Complaints About Parking Placard Abuse Were Made In The Last Year. Have They Accomplished Anything?
Localize.city crunched the numbers to determine where placard abuse is most commonly reported.
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Jake Offenhartz
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Over Two Dozen People Arrested In Fake Parking Placard Scheme
The defendants are getting charged with creating and using fake parking placards modeled on NYPD parking placards.
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David Colon
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Twitter User Who Documents Placard Misuse Claims Cops Harassed Him For Tweeting
A person who runs @placardabuse said that Internal Affairs cops visited him to demand he stop tweeting complaints about illegal parking placard use.
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David Colon
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After Issuing Thousands Of New Parking Placards, De Blasio Promises Crackdown On Placard Abuse
"I think what's happened in the past too often is there weren't clear consequences," de Blasio said.
By
Emma Whitford
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Hark! The City Is Planning To Install A Two-Way Bike Path Between The Brooklyn Bridge And Park Row
The plan would do a lot to alleviate hairy wrong-way riding by cyclists coming from the Financial District.
By
Nathan Tempey
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