Monday's crackdown at the three Manhattan crossings utilized marked and undercover police vehicles, automated license plate readers and officers assigned specifically to sniff out ghost tags.

The NYPD, MTA, and New York State Police are cracking down on vehicles with ghost plates—obstructed, altered, or fake license plates—in a coordinated operation at the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.

The mission was targeted at, ghost cars, vehicles whose owners have purposely removed license plates to obscure their identity. Not having plates is a very dangerous violation for many reasons. Most ...

Illegal “ghost cars” refer to vehicles that are almost untraceable by traffic cameras and toll readers due to being fitted with forged or altered license plates, and New York Mayor Eric Adams is ...