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OPINION: City DOT Must Do More To Fix Atlantic Avenue
Being a pedestrian or cyclist rather than a driver should not mean you are more likely to lose your life.
December 2, 2021
Unwilling to Wait for DOT, Neighborhood Residents Pitch Design for ‘Apolline’s Garden’
A tribute to a 3-month-old baby who was killed by a reckless driver appears to be moving forward.
December 1, 2021
Queens DA Declines to Prosecute Driver Who Killed Delivery Man
A man is dead and a driver is allowed to walk.
November 23, 2021
Tuesday’s Headlines: Early Thanksgiving Edition
In today's headlines, we express gratitude for some positive safe-streets developments. Plus other news.
November 23, 2021
Pedestrian Struck by Hit-and-Run Driver Dies, Cops Say
A Brooklyn man has died from injuries he sustained earlier this month when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver on Eastern Parkway, cops said.
November 21, 2021
Opinion: The City’s Bike Lanes Need More Protection Than Flimsy Flex Posts
The Crescent Street bike lane, for all its successes, has some real flaws.
November 16, 2021
Speeding Epidemic Shows No Signs of Abating, Despite Return of Car Traffic
The summer of hell has become the fall of our discontent.
November 16, 2021
Friday’s Headlines: Lots of Carnage (and Too Much Cuomo) Edition
It was just a bloody, bloody day in a bloody, bloody year. Plus the former governor ended up in the papers, too.
November 12, 2021
Driver Kills Elderly Woman Near Gridlocked Canal Street
A Manhattan senior was run over and killed by the driver of a massive SUV on Wednesday while she was trying to cross highway-like West Street near Canal Street — a dangerous area that advocates have been trying to fix for years.
November 11, 2021
UPDATE: Williamsburg Man Killed by Speeding, Drugged Teen Driver
A 33-year-old man was struck and killed early Thursday morning by the driver of a 2017 Chevy muscle car that witnesses said was speeding before the crash.
November 11, 2021
