The Briefly for September 24, 2018 – The NYPD Fills Secret Quotas With Bogus Tickets Say Whistleblowers
NYPD whistleblowers claim that they are pressured to write bogus tickets to meet secret quotas, which confirms pretty much every single person who has ever gotten a ticket's suspicions.
Public schools CEO Eric Goldstein was fired by the DOE after over 100,000 complaints were filed about bus transportation in the first month of school. He'll be replaced by Kevin Moran, a former executive director of the DOE’s field support services in Staten Island.
Eddie’s Sweet Shop on Metropolitan Avenue in Forest Hills is the city's oldest ice cream shop, dating back to 1909.
A tribute to the city car, a "banged up, asthmatic vehicle that is, at times, held together by duct tape," by The New York Times.
ICE deported Gloria Hernandez Suarez of Queens after living in the Uniter States for 33 years last week without notice. She had been held in a detention facility in New Jersey since July.
Grand Central Terminal is celebrating the twenty years anniversary of its 1998 renovation with 1998 pricing on October 1.
How 1918's prohibition restructured real estate and architecture in NYC.
A fight on a 2 subway car ended with everyone on board getting hit with pepper spray.
The ceiling collapsed on the 4/5 platform on Friday morning at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center subway stop. This is the second time this year that a ceiling collapsed.
It was a banner weekend for the MTA. A bus crashed into an apartment building in Crown Heights. The reason is yet unknown, but the bus was empty.
Three babies and two adults were stabbed at a Queens Maternity Center. The suspect was found in the basement with a slashed wrist and was charged with five counts of attempted murder, remains in custody, and will be undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.
The father who allegedly tossed the body of his dead seven-month-old baby, Mason Saldona, into the East River was indicted on one count of concealment of a corpse.
Twenty Asian desserts to try in NYC, from Eater.
After the Department of Sanitation was evicted from a garage on 30th St, they moved their fleet of garbage trucks to E 60th, 26th and 10th Streets. The neighborhoods are, as you might expect, not thrilled about having multiple garbage trucks parked on their streets. You might say the situation stinks.
Mayor de Blasio announced that the city won't bail out the doomed Staten Island Wheel project. After $450 million already spent, four 100-ton pedestals are all that have been built.
Anne Russ Federman, the last of Russ and Daughters' four daughters, passed away on Thursday at the age of 97.
Add bike helmets to the list of things you're not allowed to bring into Yankee Stadium. CitiField allows guests to bring their helmets to their seats, and the Barclays Center and MSG require checking the helmets at guest services, but it is a free service.
NYC taxpayers footed the bill for City Councilman Andy King's $3,500 "sensitivity training" after he violated the council's anti-harassment and discrimination policy.
Paul Simon retired after his final show at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the last song of the show, tour, and career was "The Sound of Silence."
S’well is donating 320,000 bottles to the city's school, one to every high school student in the city, to reduce plastic water bottle waste. It's also nice advertising for S'well.
The Highbridge Doughboy, a World War I monument, will be rededicated at Macombs Dam Park after 40 years of being in storage.
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