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Brooklyn DA Charges Driver With Manslaughter for Killing Victoria Nicodemus
A grand jury has indicted Marlon Sewell for second-degree manslaughter six months after he jumped a curb in Fort Greene and killed 30-year-old Victoria Nicodemus while driving with a suspended license, Gothamist reports. Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson had refrained from pressing felony charges until Nicodemus's family pressured his office to take action.
June 28, 2016
Driver Who Killed Man While Fleeing NYPD Pleads to Manslaughter
A driver who killed a man on a Brooklyn sidewalk while attempting to evade police pled guilty to manslaughter.
June 9, 2016
DA Ken Thompson Still Hasn’t Charged Driver for December Sidewalk Killing
Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson charged the driver who killed Victoria Nicodemus on a Fort Greene sidewalk with unlicensed driving, but did not file charges for taking the victim's life. Six months after the crash, Nicodemus's family says the DA is dragging his feet on the case.
June 6, 2016
Driver Pleads to Manslaughter for Killing 12-Year-Old on Brooklyn Sidewalk
Update: Robert DeCarlo was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison.
May 3, 2016
If NYC Builds the Streetcar, It Will Run Right Through Flood Zones
As others have noted, the proposed Brooklyn-Queens streetcar route would run right through city- and FEMA-designated high-risk flood zones. This raises questions about how the streetcar infrastructure and vehicles would be protected from storm surges, as well as the general wisdom of siting a project that's supposed to spur development in a flood-prone area.
February 17, 2016
Brooklyn Electeds to DOT: Put Safety First at Atlantic and Flatbush
About a dozen people braved the cold Saturday morning to call for pedestrian safety improvements at Brooklyn's Times Plaza and along the whole Atlantic Avenue corridor.
February 15, 2016
Keep L Train Passengers Moving With Great BRT
The news that Sandy-related repairs will require closing one or both directions of the L train under the East River (the “Canarsie Tube”) for one to three years has understandably caused panic among the estimated 230,000 daily passengers who rely on it. Businesses in Williamsburg that count on customers from Manhattan are also concerned about a significant downturn in sales. When the Canarsie Tube was shut down on weekends only last spring, it was bad enough for their bottom line, and this will be much worse.
February 4, 2016
NYC Motorists Kill 2 Pedestrians and Critically Injure 2 Others in 3 Days
In four separate crashes since Thursday, at least two people have been struck and killed while walking, and two others were critically injured.
February 1, 2016
The Problem With Designing a Public Space in a Sea of Traffic
Designing a successful public space surrounded by wide streets and a sea of traffic may sound like an exercise in futility, but that is what Forest City Ratner and DOT are trying to pull off at Brooklyn's Times Plaza.
January 28, 2016
Atlantic Avenue Speedway Claims Life of Rodney Graham, 49
Early Sunday morning, Rodney Graham was killed while crossing Atlantic Avenue when he was struck twice by separate motorists. Street safety advocates are calling on the city to implement significant design changes to prevent more loss of life.
January 11, 2016