Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about District Attorneys

The garbage truck was still at the intersection an hour after the crash at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, a sheet covering the victim's gruesome injuries. Photo: Julianne Cuba

Private Garbage Truck Driver Kills Pedestrian at Dangerous Brooklyn Intersection

By Julianne Cuba | Mar 4, 2022 | No Comments

The driver of a private sanitation truck struck and killed a man at a notoriously dangerous Brooklyn intersection on Friday afternoon, the latest in a string of fatal crashes amid the deadliest year so far under Vision Zero.

The wreckage of the car that killed Xing Long Lin back in April in Astoria. File photo: Julianne Cuba

Driver Who Killed Delivery Man Has Little Remorse, Few Answers

By Julianne Cuba | Jan 13, 2022 | No Comments

Maro Andrianou offered the same excuse for fatally running over 37-year-old Xing Long Lin that attorneys have argued is bogus

The many unsolved hit-and-runs include (from top) the deaths of Jose Ramos, Imorne Horton and Matthew Jensen. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

In Memoriam 2021: Too Many Lives Lost; Too Many Cases Unsolved

By Julianne Cuba | Dec 30, 2021 | No Comments

It's the bloodiest year of Mayor de Blasio's Vision Zero initiative — and hit-and-run cases are also on the rise. And the NYPD isn't solving enough of them. An analysis.

A makeshift memorial on 35th Street for Xing Long Lin. Melinda Katz has declined to prosecute his killer. File photo: Julianne Cuba

Video Raises Questions About DA’s Decision to Clear Driver Who Killed Delivery Man, Attorneys Say

By Julianne Cuba | Dec 2, 2021 | No Comments

The video does not exonerate the driver in a way that Katz and the driver's lawyer believe, experts say.

A makeshift memorial on 35th Street for Xing Long Lin. Photo: Julianne Cuba

Other Victim in Fatal Crash Sues 'Reckless' Driver Whom DA Katz Cleared

By Julianne Cuba | Nov 28, 2021 | No Comments

The civil suit portrays a driver so negligent that activists once again cannot believe that the Queens District Attorney did not also charg her criminally for the death of Xing Long Lin.

Queens DA Declines to Prosecute Driver Who Killed Delivery Man

By Julianne Cuba | Nov 23, 2021 | No Comments

A man is dead and a driver is allowed to walk.

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