From 6 a.m. to noon, officers stationed at 60th St. and Second Ave., and 60th St. and Broadway, handed out 113 tickets. Of those, 52 were for vehicles with obstructed or blocked license plates — a violation that’s been heavily targeted since the congestion pricing program went into effect Sunday.

In addition to the summonses, 10 vehicles were seized during the operation — eight of which had suspended registrations, and two that were impounded for other reasons. One individual was arrested at the scene, though authorities clarified the bust was for a warrant unrelated to congestion pricing.

The remaining violations included suspended licenses, unregistered vehicles and other offenses in line with the city’s expanded enforcement efforts under the congestion pricing program, which now charges drivers $9 to enter Manhattan’s busiest areas south of 60th St., including parts of the Financial District, Midtown and lower Manhattan.

Also handcuffed at the checkpoint near Columbus Circle was Staten Island artist, activist and very angry Scott LoBaido.

In a video posted to his X account, LoBaido parked his car just before the toll cameras and covered his front license plate with duct tape and his rear with a cutout of a middle finger, obscuring the tags.

LoBaido stood on the roof of his SUV holding a larger cutout of a middle finger. “F–k you! F–k you!,” the artist shouted. “F–k your congestion f–king prices!”

The video then cuts to a group of police officers attempting to coax him off his car and get him to move to the sidewalk. He was issued two summonses for disorderly conduct for creating a hazardous condition, and obstruction of vehicular traffic, police said.

President Biden declared the observance shortly after Carter’s death on Dec. 29 at age 100. He was the longest-lived president in American history and the first to live to 100. Carter’s state funeral will also be held Thursday, beginning at 10 a.m.

The most recent national day of mourning before Thursday occurred on Dec. 5, 2018, following the death of George H.W. Bush. While many businesses and facilities will remain open as usual throughout the country on Thursday, a few will be closed. Here’s a rundown of the situation in New York City.

City Hall

New York City Hall, along with all city and state government offices, will be open. In fact, Mayor Adams is set to deliver this year’s State of the City address on Thursday.

Alternate-side parking

All routine city schedules, such as alternate-side parking rules, will still apply on Thursday. Congestion pricing will still be enforced.

Schools

Just like city government, New York City Public Schools will open as usual on Thursday. Additionally, CUNY and SUNY campuses will operate on normal schedules.

Federal offices

Most federal government offices will be closed on Thursday. This includes the federal court offices in Manhattan and Brooklyn — however, state courts will be in session as usual.

Mail

The Postal Service will suspend regular package delivery and close all offices to mark the national day of mourning.

Wall Street

The New York Stock Exchange will be closed all day, just as it was to honor George H.W. Bush. The Nasdaq also said its U.S. market would be closed. However, bond traders don’t get the whole day off. The bond market will be open until 2 p.m., according to a recommendation from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.

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The victim was manning his cart at W. 49th St. and Eighth Ave. when the robber struck him in the face with a metal object, possibly a pipe, about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, police said.

The crook repeatedly bashed the 36-year-old vendor in the face before robbing him of about $3,500.

The victim lost several teeth in the attack, police said. Medics took him to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.

At the corner Wednesday night, the victim’s co-worker filling in for him as he recovers told the Daily News it wasn’t the first time they’ve come across the assailant.

“This guy is trouble,” Hasan Lhendeou said of the attacker. “I hope they get him so he doesn’t come back.”

Police on Wednesday released photos snapped of the man, weapon in hand. He was last seen wearing a Mets baseball cap and a blue-and-white striped puffer jacket as he fled into the 50th St. subway stop.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.

“Where the hell is the train? Where the f— is the train?” the upset 47-year-old victim said out loud as he waited at the Pelham Parkway subway station at 6:10 a.m. on Thursday.

The complaint was overheard by the 52-year-old Jamar Banks, who was standing nearby on the platform, police sources said.

“You talking to me?” Banks asked before picking a fight and allegedly stabbing the cleaner in the back and armpit, the sources said.

After Banks ran off, medics took the worker to Jacobi Medical Center with a minor wound.

Less than 24 hours earlier, Banks allegedly knifed a 31-year-old man aboard an uptown No. 2 train at the 14th St. station in the West Village.

The victim suffered a punctured lung during the 9:40 a.m. attack on New Year’s Day, court papers reveal.

Banks walked up to the victim and started the argument, then pulled a large knife and stabbed the man in the back according to cops.

Banks was busted two days after police identified him as a suspect in the two stabbings and asked the public’s help tracking him down. He has more than 80 prior arrests on his record, a law enforcement source said.

Police charged him with assault and weapons possession for the pair of stabbings in transit.

A Manhattan Criminal Court judge ordered Banks held on $300,000 bail during a brief arraignment proceeding on Sunday.  Bronx prosecutors handling the attack on the MTA cleaner are expected to bring their evidence to a grand jury before he’s indicted, officials said.

The NYPD saw a 5% drop in major crime in the subway system last year compared to 2023. But assaults in transit are up and the city has been rocked by a string of high-profile crimes in the subway recently, most notably the homeless woman fatally burned alive on a Coney Island train last month.

As a result, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced she has assigned 200 additional cops to patrol the subways.

The 1 a.m. attack came about 12 hours after Mayor Adams and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced that 200 more cops will be assigned to the subway system to curb the perception that crime is running rampant on the rails.

Rafael Santiago, 30, and Jason Cheatham, 50, were on the 4/5/6 uptown platform at the Midtown Manhattan transit hub when they started to argue, cops were told.

A moment later, each pulled out blades and lunged, slashing each other in the arms.

Responding officers broke up the fight and took both men into custody.

Cheatham was treated at the scene, cops said. Santiago was taken to Bellevue Hospital with a deep gash to his left arm. He is expected to recover.

Both men were charged with assault and live in the Bronx, police said.

The NYPD saw a 5% drop in major crime in the subway system last year compared with 2023. But the city has been rocked by a string of high-profile crimes in the subway recently, most notably the homeless woman fatally burned alive on a Coney Island train last month.

The additional cops will help combat the perception that commuters aren’t safe at city subway stops. The officers will be assigned to ride the trains and patrol the platforms — the two places where 78% of subway crime occurs, officials said.

“We still must do more because people don’t feel safe in our subways,” Tisch said at a press conference at NYPD Headquarters Monday.

Jamar Banks, 52, was busted two days after police identified him as a suspect in the two stabbings and asked the public’s help tracking him down. He has more than 80 prior arrests on his record, a law enforcement source said.

Banks was wanted for knifing a 31-year-old man aboard an uptown No. 2 train at the 14th St. subway station in the West Village about 9:40 a.m. Wednesday. The victim told cops his attacker walked up to him and started an argument, then pulled a knife and stabbed him in the back.

Medics took the victim to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.

About 6:10 a.m. the next day, Banks allegedly attacked an off-duty station cleaner at the Pelham Parkway subway station, cops said.

Just as before, Banks picked a fight with the 47-year-old transit worker, then stabbed him in the back and armpit. Medics took the worker to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition and Banks ran off.

Banks, whose address is listed as a homeless shelter on Blake Ave. in East New York, faces assault and weapon possession charges. His arraignment was pending in Manhattan Criminal Court.

MTA CEO Janno Lieber told reporters Sunday that felony crime in transit was down 12% in 2024 compared to 2019. “But high-profile crimes that are alarming New Yorkers are real,” he added. “We catch all of these maniacs. We need the criminal justice system to put them away.”

Abdul Malik Little, 46, was charged with attempted murder and weapons possession for the bloody Saturday night attack at his arraignment Sunday in Manhattan Criminal Court. He was ordered held on $50,000 cash bail or $150,000 bond.

“Mr Little doesn’t fit into type of case we see in the press,” his lawyer Jackie Dombroff told Judge Janet McDonnell, asserting: “The way that the press is including this in the trend of stories of stranger attacks on the subway couldn’t be further from the truth.”

According to police, Little and the 31-year-old victim were riding on a New Haven Line train entering the transit hub about 6:50 p.m. Saturday when the younger man complained about the blaring tune.

That led to an argument, and Little allegedly whipped out a knife, stabbing the victim twice in the chest, police said.

The victim managed to get off the train and find two patrolling MTA police officers. He pointed out Little and the officers arrested him and recovered the knife, MTA officials said.

Medics took the victim to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.

On Sunday, Dombroff argued the confrontation “is not an instance of someone lashing out at an undeserving stranger.”

“He wants to clear his name,” the lawyer said at the arraignment.

It’s the second attack at Grand Central since Christmas Eve, when an unhinged man slashed two strangers in an unprovoked rampage in the subway station there.

“F–k these people!” screamed Jason Sargeant, 28, as he pulled the emergency brake on a No. 5 train entering the station, police and MTA officials said.

As he left the train, he slashed a 42-year-old man in the left wrist without warning, then after crossing through a turnstile on the mezzanine level lunged at a 26-year-old woman, punching her in the face and cutting her neck and throat, cops said. Both victims were expected to recover.

Friday’s ruling removes what is likely the final obstacle to congestion tolling’s planned Sunday start, though New Jersey’s lawyer, Randy Mastro, said after the ruling he would seek an emergency appeal Friday night or Saturday morning at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.

“We will continue on behalf of the state of New Jersey to do everything we can to stop congestion pricing from going forward before this remand,” he said.

That possibility notwithstanding, beginning after midnight Jan. 5, drivers will be automatically tolled when the drive on Manhattan surface streets at 60th Street or below, paying a base toll of $9 to enter the congestion zone.

“We’ve been studying this issue for five years, but it only takes about five minutes if you’re in midtown Manhattan, to see that New York has a real traffic problem,” said MTA chariman Janno Lieber in praising the ruling.

Judge Leo Gordon made the ruling from the bench late Friday night, after attorneys for the Garden State sought to clarify his Monday ruling in New Jersey’s long-running suit seeking to stop the toll. The Murphy administration’s suit — the most serious challenge to New York’s plan to toll drivers entering Midtown and lower Manhattan — argues that changing traffic patterns from trucks and other vehicles seeking to avoid the toll will unfairly impact the air quality in New Jersey.

In his Monday ruling, Gordon had issued a “remand in part” of the Federal Highway Administration’s approval of congestion tolling. The judge ordered the feds to account for why New York’s congestion pricing plan detailed specific pollution mitigations for the Bronx, but failed to detail such plans for several New Jersey towns — even though both regions are expected to see an increase in motor vehicle traffic.

During Friday’s hearing in Newark, MTA attorney Elizabeth Knauer said there was $9.8 million in mitigation funds earmarked for New Jersey communities since the June evaluation by the highway administration that would be rolled out over five years.

“There was always a commitment to provide mitigation to communities in New Jersey that warranted it,” she said.

But Mastro, the well-known litigator representing New Jersey, said residents of the Garden State are going to suffer and told the judge: “You’re the last line of defense and you already recognized that they got it wrong.”

The judge’s ruling earlier this week sparked confusion as both sides declared victory.

Gov. Hochul and Lieber both said the tolling plan would continue, as the ruling included no language requiring them to stop while the feds answered Gordon’s concerns.

But the Garden State said the ruling should stop the toll in its tracks. Attorneys for New Jersey argued that even a partial remand meant the program was no longer authorized by federal regulators, and that a lack of clarity regarding pollution mitigation should in and of itself be enough to order a temporary pause on the program.

“The irreparable harm that New Jersey will suffer once the MTA flips the switch on congestion pricing is manifest,” the Garden State’s lawyers wrote earlier this week in seeking an injunction against a Sunday start. “Beginning on Day One, New Jersey will experience vehicle traffic increases and poorer air quality.”

After four hours of closed-door deliberation Friday evening, Gordon said that his ruling was never intended to block the tolling program, and that he was not tossing the federally approved environmental studies backing congestion pricing.

“The court will be be clear that the court did not vacate the [environmental assessment] or the [finding of no significant environmental impact,]” Gordon said.

Mastro, representing New Jersey, tried one last time to stop the toll after Gordon denied the injunction, asking for a temporary pause in order to appeal to the higher Third Circuit court.

“I respectfully request you give us five days to allow the third circuit to take up the issue,” Mastro said.

Gordon denied the request.

Outside the Newark courthouse, Mastro reiterated his intent to appeal to the Third Circuit in Philadelphia.

“If we can get there tonight, we will file our emergency appeal papers tonight — otherwise we’ll file them first thing tomorrow morning,” he said.

Lieber welcomed news of the court victory Friday at a press conference in the transit agency’s downtown headquarters.

“Earlier this week, Judge Gordon in New Jersey rejected that state’s claim that the environmental assessment — the 4000 page document reflecting five years of work that had been approved by the federal government — was deficient in some way,” he said. “Today, the judge confirmed that ruling and denied New Jersey’s effort to get an injunction to stop congestion pricing from starting tomorrow night.”

New York’s congestion tolling plan, mandated by law in 2019, is meant to reduce traffic in Midtown and lower Manhattan while raising funds for the MTA’s capital budget.

Revenue from the toll is intended to back $15 billion in bonds issued by the MTA, which will in turn fund a bevy of construction and repair projects around the city’s transit network.

The toll had been set to go into effect last summer, before Gov. Hochul paused the plan three weeks before it was to start, ultimately waiting until November to re-start it at a lower initial cost to drivers.

The transit worker’s alleged stabber, whom police identified as 52-year-old Jamar Banks, also attacked a 31-year-old man aboard a northbound No. 2 train at the 14th St. subway station in the West Village shortly after 6 p.m. on New Year’s Day, cops said.

The Downtown victim told police that Banks walked up to him and started an argument aboard the train before drawing a knife and stabbing him in the back.

Medics rushed the victim to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. The stabber fled the subway station on foot, said police.

Banks’ alleged stabbing spree continued the following day when he attacked a 47-year-old off-duty station cleaner at the Pelham Parkway subway station around 6 a.m., according to police.

As in the earlier incident, Banks picked a fight with the transit worker before stabbing him in the back and armpit, cops said.

EMS transported the MTA employee to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition, police said.

Banks fled the Bronx station on foot.

Police released surveillance images of the suspect in hopes the public will assist in tracking him down. He is described as 5-feet-11 and weighing 120 pounds, and was seen carrying a red suitcase.

Anyone with information on the suspect is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. All calls are confidential.