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Photo via Caribcandy/Instagram. [https://www.instagram.com/p/BJOedSuD_aV/?hl=en] The first month of Senator Martin Golden’s “war on dollar vans” is going well, according to Golden’s office. 120 summonses have been issued to dollar vans in the past 28 days for various violations, but
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Starting last night, the NYPD will be cracking down on people using cell phones while driving and failing to yield to pedestrians in a citywide initiative that will run through midnight Tuesday, and then again for another 24 hours starting at midnight on Friday, May 16. The use of a
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A 2012 collision on Bedford Avenue and Emmons Avenue, which neighbors say is a common occurrence. (Photo: Tom Paolillo)The New York Police Department has been busy this year. In February, the number of tickets issued across the city for traffic violations have gone up. But things look different in
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That’s out of about 350,000 tickets city-wide in 2011, according to a report in The New York World [http://www.thenewyorkworld.com/2012/09/05/nypd-improbable-cause/]. The “pink slip” summonses are for things like open containers of alcohol, loitering, and bicycling on the sidewalk, and also some driving