Tag: Jaywalking
Upper West Side resident Kang Chun Wong was arrested on January 21st, when he allegedly crossed W. 96th Street at Broadway against the light. As he only speaks Cantonese and Spanish, he didn’t understand why Officer Jeffrey Loo took his ID and began to walk away. He protested. The Daily News explains: Loo, joined by several more unidentified cops, pushed Wong up against […]
The NYPD’s ill-advised bid to issue more jaywalking tickets as a safety measure after a spat of traffic deaths on the Upper West Side isn’t going so well. As Streetsblog reports, cops cited pedestrians on New York State Vehicle & Traffic Law Section 1152, legislation that’s superseded by city law, and sent them to criminal court, […]
