Street Cheats: Parking Enforcement in Downtown Brooklyn? Fuhgeddaboudit.
Today’s installment of Street Cheats takes us to Downtown Brooklyn, where city workers are using a rehabbed Cadman Plaza as their personal parking lot and the 84th Precinct has ceded Red Hook Lane sidewalks to government employees and other space hogging randos.
February 21, 2018
NYPD: No Charges for UPS Driver Who Killed Woman Walking With the Right of Way
NYPD's account of the crash indicates 27-year-old Sumiah Ali was crossing the street lawfully when she was fatally struck by a UPS driver in Fort Greene.
February 20, 2018
Send in Your Photos of Street Cheats and Help Us Map Placard Abuse in NYC
Streetsblog is launching a series of posts targeting serial placard abusers and their favored illegal parking spots — Street Cheats — and we need your contributions to hold them accountable.
February 19, 2018
De Blasio “Placard Crackdown” Update: Placard Holders Monopolize Livingston Street Bus Lane
Nine months after Mayor de Blasio announced his big placard crackdown, it has yet to reach Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn, where bus riders stew in traffic while placard-holding government employees illegally park in the bus lane.
February 16, 2018
DOT Needs More Resources From City Hall to Fix Streets Like Deadly Liberty Ave. in Queens
Six people have died in crashes on Liberty Avenue since 2009. DOT noted hazardous conditions for walking on Liberty in 2015, but didn’t prescribe safety upgrades.
February 15, 2018
Darcel Clark: Probation for Driver Who Killed Child Inside Bronx Restaurant and Fled Scene
Kwasi Oduro killed Ethan Villavicencio, 7, and injured the boy’s little sister and father as they ate in a sandwich shop. Oduro got no jail time and may drive again in five years.
February 13, 2018
