The NYPD says there isn’t enough space in the city’s tow pounds to take every car with illegal or obscured license plates off the streets.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.NYPD officials on Monday said there isn’t enough space in the city’s tow pounds to take every car with illegal or obscured license plates off the streets.
“A couple of years ago, we lost the Manhattan tow pound, which was our largest tow pound in the city,” Pilecki said, adding that the decision meant the city lost “several hundred spots.” The tow pound processed nearly 200 cars per day.if the city failed to move the tow pound before Dec. 31 of that year. Pilecki said the decision left the city with only three tow pounds in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, each capable of housing roughly 200 cars apiece.
“Any vehicle bearing one of these fraudulent plates instantly becomes undetectable to nearly every aspect of street-level enforcement, from tolls to speed and red light cameras and even parking enforcement,” said Pilecki. “They become ghost cars to the system and evade enforcement on a widespread scale.”
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