Would it not have been more productive....... to sell them to junk yards .........for say spare parts ....... and stuff like that ..........you know some people have difficulty ........ or give them to people who desperately need transpotation ......... or something who knows........... it just seems a real fucking waste ............ where as good ...... nice people........ could have done use ...... with them ......i guess that is way way too easy
More than 100,000 ghost vehicles seized in NYC since 2022
Dominique Jack
1 min read
More than 100,000 ghost vehicles seized in NYC since 2022
FRESH KILLS, Staten Island (PIX11) — More than 62,300 illegal motorized vehicles and over 38,000 ghost cars have been seized from New York City streets since 2022, Mayor Eric Adams’ office announced on Thursday.
The announcement came just before several hundred illegal vehicles were crushed at a Department of Sanitation facility in Fresh Kills, Staten Island.
“Illegal mopeds and ghost cars aren’t just a quality-of-life issue — they’re a public safety threat. They’re unregistered, untraceable, and often used to evade police or enable other crimes,” said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
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Since 2022 the city and state have been working to crack down on ghost plates and vehicles throughout New York. In Sep. 2024 Adams launched an interagency task force between DSNY and NYPD to remove parked ghost cars. Since then more than 14,000 have been taken off the street.
This year alone the NYPD has removed more than 8,100 illegal two-wheeled vehicles and ATVs and 3,145 ghost cars.
Officials say ghost cars and other illegal vehicles have posed a significant public safety risk and have increasingly been used in violent crimes.
Dominique Jack is a digital content producer from Brooklyn with more than five years of experience covering news. She joined PIX11 in 2024. More of her work can be found here.
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New York City Has Seized More Than 38,000 'Ghost Cars' in Less Than 4 Years
Joe Kucinski
2 min read
NYC Has Seized Over 38,000 'Ghost Cars' in 4 YearsNurPhoto - Getty Images
On Thursday, New York City mayor Eric Adams announced that the city has taken over 100,000 illegal ‘ghost vehicles’ off the streets since he took office — a numberthat includes more than 38,000 cars. As a celebration of this milestone, the city crushed hundreds of seized illegal two-wheeled vehicles with a bulldozer at a New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) facility.
A "ghost car," for those not familiar, is one with altered or missing license plates, rendering it practically untraceable to traffic cameras and automated police plate reader. These cars can easily slip out of tolls and tickets because of this, but other, more serious crimes such as shootings and robberies have often involved ghost cars. As such, taking these off the street has been a priority since Adams took office in January 2022.
Last September, Adams created a special task force made up of 15 New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers, whose focus was to get ghost cars off the street. That small task force alone has been responsible for getting more than 7600 ghost cars out of circulation in less than 12 months, according to the city. In 2025 alone, over 10,745 ghost cars have been taken off New York City streets.
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Two-wheeled ghost vehicles have also been a concern over the years, with authorities saying many have been used in thefts and other street crimes. A recent crackdown on such vehicles has helped to deliver an 85.7% and 68.2% decrease in grand larcenies and street robberies, respectively, involving two-wheeled motorized vehicle so far in 2025.
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Not only are ghost cars a safety issue, but they're a financial burden to New York, as well. Since the March 2024 inception of a multi-agency city-state task force to tackle the ghost vehicle issue, authorities have made over 1100 arrests and seized over 4700 vehicles whose owners owed a total of over $56 million in unpaid tolls, taxes, and fees.
Mayor Adams used the announcement to issue a warning to people who operate a ghost vehicle: “If you drive an illegal vehicle in this city, you will face the consequences — and so will your ride.” And those consequences just might involve a 50,000-pound bulldozer.
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