Tuesday’s Headlines: The Hunt for John Sherman Edition

If you follow us on Twitter, you may have noticed that both our official account (@Streetsblognyc) and the account of our ace reporter Julianne Cuba (@julcuba) were defending their honor against a charge of journalistic malpractice by Brooklyn District Attorney spokesman Oren Yaniv (@orenyaniv). So let's clear this all up:

1. John Sherman ran over and killed his neighbor Stella Clinton on March 6, 2019. He was charged by the NYPD on March 27, 2019. That is nine full months before the end of 2019, plenty of time to prosecute a driver for failure to yield and failure to exercise due care.
2. In February, 2020, Streetsblog reported that Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez had never prosecuted Sherman, letting the case lapse without holding the killer driver accountable. (By the way, since killing Clinton less than a year ago, Sherman's car, below, has been caught on camera seven times for speeding and once for running a red light.)

That was fun. Now here are yesterday's headlines:

• Red Hook wants buses not the BQX. (Brooklyn Paper)
• Here's more subway graffiti to drive NY Post editors crazy. Gothamist blamed the NYPD.
• Hit-and-run carnage in Harlem. (NYDN, NY Post)
• Todd Maisel of amNY was, as always, Toddy on the spot of a hit-and-run crash in kid-filled Ditmas Park that almost killed an 11-year-old. The driver was eventually caught.
• There's been more talk about garbage over the last few days, with Crain's discussing how we can finally get back our sidewalks and the NY Times finally doing the broad overview of the city's efforts to tame rogue private carters. (We wrote about it here and here and here.)