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NYC housing official busted for using phony parking placard
Vivian Louie, assistant commissioner for the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development, faces up to seven years behind bars.
Another de Blasio parking placard abuse promise proves a total joke
We’ve lost track of how many de Blasio anti-placard-abuse plans have failed; maybe the next mayor will actually care about living up to his promises.
De Blasio's three-strikes policy nails just two parking placard abusers in 19 months
Mayor Bill de Blasio's February 2019 vow to revoke the city-issued parking placards of motorists caught parking illegally has led to just two yanked permits so far -- and they...
Trolls pose as Brooklyn Beep Eric Adams, report parking abuse to 311
Someone is trolling Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams by posing as him while calling in 311 reports for illegally parked cars. A 311 report obtained by the Post shows that...
City Hall admits new budget dismantles unit for placard crackdown
City Hall has pulled the plug on its latest effort to tackle rampant placard abuse by municipal employees, shutting down the NYPD unit meant to enforce the most recent crackdown....
City workers flaunt placard abuse on first day of crackdown
The first day of the city’s placard crackdown was more of a letdown — with city workers openly flouting the rules as enforcement agents turned a blind eye. Cops were...
NYPD crackdown of parking placard abuse begins Monday
The NYPD will crack down on abuse of city-issued parking placards with beefed-up fines and violations starting on Monday, The Post has learned. "WARNING!!" police brass told rank-and-file cops in...
City Sanitation cop gets 3-day suspension for placard abuse
A member of the city Sanitation Department's police force was given a three-day, unpaid suspension after he copped to using his parking permit for his personal car. Twenty-year Sanitation Department...
City Council approves new parking placard regulations
City Council members overwhelmingly backed Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s plan to rein in widespread abuse of city-issued parking permits, approving all nine of his bills he put forward to crack...
City Council takes up parking-placard crackdown with new bills
The City Council will vote this week on nine bills to crackdown on widespread parking-placard abuse. On Tuesday, the chamber will consider bills to regulate the distribution and enforcement of...
MTA chaplain loses gig for using placard to park at Home Depot
It was an abuse of higher power. A Long Island imam was booted from his gig as an MTA chaplain for misusing his official parking placard, agency officials and sources...
The poster boy for parking-placard abuse
You have to hand it to Jonathan Yedin: He’s managed to perfectly embody the entitled insider arrogance behind parking-placard abuse. As revealed in Monday’s Post, Yedin apparently has been using...
City Council staffer caught in the act abusing parking placard
The Brooklyn pol is the sponsor of three pending council bills proposing crackdowns on the placards, which ballooned from 67,297 in 2008 to 121,000 this year.
NYC’s worst road menaces are often its public employees
Shocking video taken on the West Side Highway near 24th Street shows a maroon Dodge Challenger accelerate from a standstill and deliberately ram a man standing on the road holding...
8 busted for using fake city parking placards to dodge tickets
Eight people were busted Tuesday morning for using phony city parking placards to fight tickets, officials said. The five men and three women are all charged with felony possession of...
City employee abuses placard privileges as de Blasio vows crackdown
That’s some crackdown! Mayor Bill de Blasio has vowed to cut down on placard abuse around the city — yet one of his highest-paid employees blatantly misused one outside a...
Joe Crowley finally returned his government parking pass
Former Rep. Joe Crowley finally returned his City Hall-issued parking placard on Monday -- nearly three months after leaving office. The 10-term Queens Democrat — who was upset by Alexandria...
De Blasio's 'maybe someday' non-solution for parking-placard abuse
With the City Council looking at legislation to combat parking-placard abuse, Mayor de Blasio is now offering his own plan to make a big change . . . someday. This, after his...
City setting three-strike policy against parking placard abusers
Mayor de Blasio on Thursday announced his second “crackdown” in two years on parking placard abuses -- but the new regulations won’t make a dent in the 125,000 permits carpeting...
City Council vows to crack down on parking placard abuses
If Mayor Bill de Blasio won't crack down on parking placard abuses, then the City Council will. The council on Wednesday plans to unveil a package of five bills to...