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A Car Driver Ripped Off a Woman’s Leg in Broad Daylight
A Brooklyn driver drove onto a busy sidewalk in central Williamsburg and maimed a 33-year-old pedestrian. Why can't our officials prevent this kind of predictable incident?
December 10, 2025
NYPD Finds Mysterious Corpse in Car With Illegal Tints Parked at a Hydrant Near Stationhouse
The discovery is a gruesome demonstration of the NYPD's systemic failure to enforce parking rules around its own station houses.
December 8, 2025
Monday’s Headlines: South Williamsburg Edition
Satmar Hasidic leader Moishe Indig endorsed Zohran Mamdani — but didn't demand any anti-bike lane promises from the mayoral frontrunner, he said.
November 3, 2025
Appellate Court Allows Eric Adams To Rip Up Part of the Bedford Ave. Bike Lane
Mayor Adams can go ahead and remove three blocks of the Bedford Avenue protected bike lane, a court ruled.
July 28, 2025
Eyes on the Street: Meeker Avenue Bike Lane Is a Failure
The Department of Transportation still hasn't finished a critical bike lane under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that the agency has been stalling for over four years even after identifying the strip's danger and lack of proper signals.
July 18, 2025
Opinion: ‘Community,’ Opportunism and the Bedford Ave. Bike Lane
Mayor Adams plays the most dangerous game — trying to appease one part of a "community" while another is put in jeopardy.
June 24, 2025
BREAKING: Judge Halts Mayor’s Plan to Tear Out Bedford Av. Bike Lane
And now the city will have to persuade a judge that officials weren't acting "arbitrarily, capriciously, and illegally" in ordering the hasty removal.
June 18, 2025
Cyclists Fuming Over Mayor Adams’s Removal of Bedford Avenue Protected Bike Lane
“I don’t think he cares if we die," said one cyclist on Bedford Avenue on Monday.
June 17, 2025
Bklyn Tween Speaks Truth to Mayor Adams on Supposedly ‘Dangerous’ Bike Lane, Gets Booed By Hasidic Men
On Thursday night, I went to my first town hall. Mayor Adams came to speak at Beis Chana School on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. I live nearby and went with my dad — but I got there a little late because I had a math test.
May 23, 2025
Mythbusting: Don’t Assume Orthodox Jews Only Drive — We Want Bike Lanes, Too
City planners too often choose not to put bike lanes in certain places based on the myth that Orthodox Jews don't use them.
October 30, 2024
