For the past year, we have chaired a blue-ribbon panel on fare and toll evasion for the MTA. Our report, just published, charts a generational reset on how this all-important issue is addressed.
Fare evasion has reached "crisis levels, costing hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, threatening the entire public transit system and tearing at the social fabric of the city and the region,” said the study by a panel of 16 “distinguished New Yorkers” chosen last year by the MTA.
Since it began in August 2020, the NYPD’s Early Intervention Program has investigated service records of 1,132 cops. The program does not punish officers but it might require them to undergo extra training or reassignments.
Cops and prosecutors told The Post that a record influx of Colombian cocaine has spurred the return of crack in New York City, where a rock can be bought for as little as $5.
A group of New York City Department of Education administrators under investigation is being sued for $24,000 in unpaid rent by the owners of a Bronx house.