{"id":240464,"date":"2026-05-22T11:59:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240464\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:59:41","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-mamdani-administration-secures-9m-in-vehicle-idling-fines-from-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240464\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Mamdani Administration Secures 9m In Vehicle Idling Fines From Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s administration announced Thursday that they have successfully secured more than $9 million in fines accrued from Amazon truck idling violations.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Department of Finance says the company is one of New York City\u2019s worst idling offenders.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cAmazon is worth $2 trillion. Yet, it did not deign to pay the millions of dollars it racked up in unpaid fines as its\u2019 trucks illegally polluted our air and forced New Yorkers to breathe in their exhaust. We are going to collect every dollar they owe the people of this city,\u201d said Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Most vehicles are not permitted to idle for longer than three minutes while parked, standing or stopped under current city law.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThese laws exist for a reason: cleaner air, healthier communities, and a city where corporations are held to the same standard as everyone else. Today we are making clear that no company \u2013 no matter how large or powerful \u2013 is above the law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s administration announced Thursday that they have successfully secured more than $9 million in fines accrued&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-240464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}