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Memorial Ride for Youth Killed While Cycling in Brooklyn and Queens

Join cyclists who will ride in honor of two New York City youths who have perished while riding their bikes. Luis Ramos, 18, was killed on June 23rd while he was biking to work on Flushing Avenue near Beaver Street. Carolina Hernandez, 13, was killed August 17th by a turning truck while crossing the street on her bike at the corner of 57th Avenue and Junction Boulevard.

By Aaron Donovan

3:05 PM EDT on September 1, 2007

Bicycle deaths are preventable. Bring flowers, love, and hope.

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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