Tag: Cars
A new apartment building on Broome and Crosby Streets in SoHo has added ten parking spots available to condo owners for $1 million each. The New York Times compared the price of the condos with that of the parking space to determine that the garage space costs considerably more per square foot than the apartment itself. The […]
New York is cracking down on dangerous driving. And yet, we’re not even the worst. Boston is the worst, according to Allstate auto insurance company’s latest annual report ranking America’s largest cities by how safe their drivers are. Allstate Corp’s spokewoman Kari Mather shames Boston, which came last for cities with population over 1 million: A Boston […]
Learning to drive is different in New York City, and it’s especially intense at Akademia Driving School, recently profiled by the New York Times. Owner Leoni Pimentel guides his students through the obstacle course of city traffic with varying degrees of success. Pimintel told the Times that his students would crash “every half hour” without the safety net of […]
Taxi and Limousine Commission inspectors are allowed to temporarily seize a vehicle of someone they suspect is giving illegal cab rides. According to a report by DNAinfo, they often do this without sufficient proof and don’t follow the proper procedures, sometimes stranding families and individuals without their cars for weeks. In their mission to protect New Yorkers […]
In an effort to curtail unsafe driving, the NYPD handed out 4,814 speeding tickets during a crackdown this Tuesday and Wednesday. Brooklyn was apparently the speediest borough this week, with 1,249 of those tickets. Queens came next with 1,219, followed by Manhattan with 1,175, the Bronx with 782, and Staten Island with 389. Last week, officers handed out 5,258 summonses […]
Last month, NASCAR- and cryptocurrency-loving Redditors raised $15,000 to fund a Doge-emblazoned race car. Sunday, the first pictures of that car hit the internet. Doge itself gets prominent placement on the car’s hood and rear, of course, but there’s a serious lack of brightly colored Comic Sans. Driver Josh Wise will run the Dogecar at the Aaron’s […]
Here’s a fresh artwork by David Renault over at F.A.T. It involves breaking into a lot of abandoned construction equipment in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande of north-western France with a horn, some air tubes and something sharp enough to punch through industrial strength tire. Presenting, Dernier Souffle (The Last Breath). Honk your dead heart out, you annoying fucking thing. Renault’s past “Previously […]
Remember Adam Tang, the driver who broke the record for fastest lap around Manhattan with a 24-minute sprint, then was arrested after posting video of his exploits to YouTube? He’s petitioned a judge to give him his driver license back, and shockingly, she turned him down. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Jill Konviser said his “conduct, […]
Bill de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” initiative — the plan to reduce traffic fatalities to zero within ten years — has thus far been little more than a hopeful idea. This week, however, the mayor rolled out the specifics of how he intends to pull it off. Those include everything from indicators inside taxis that tell […]
It’s not uncommon for taxi drivers to kill their passengers or pedestrians in a crash and get off scot-free, without even a suspension to their licenses. On the Upper West Side, a local community board is fighting that status quo. At a meeting this week, CB7’s Transportation Committee unanimously resolved that “any driver who kills […]
