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Curb Jumping

Wednesday’s Headlines: 18-Year-Old Driver Flips BMW onto the Greenway Edition

Dave Colon is a reporter from Long Beach, a barrier island off of the coast of Long Island that you can bike to from the city. It’s a real nice ride.  He’s previously been the editor of Brokelyn, a reporter at Gothamist, a freelance reporter and delivered freshly baked bread by bike.

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Dave Colon

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Carnage

Reckless SUV Driver Kills Another Child on a Sidewalk in Far Rockaway

Julianne Cuba joined Streetsblog in February, 2019, after three years covering local news and politics at The Brooklyn Paper. There, she also covered the notoriously reckless private carting industry and hit-and-runs. A 2015 graduate of Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism Master’s Program, she now lives in Brooklyn. Julianne is on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/julcuba?lang=en">@julcuba</a>. Email Julianne at <a href="mailto:julianne@streetsblog.org">julianne@streetsblog.org</a>

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Bollards

Brooklyn Pol Offers Poor Fix After Death of 10-Year-Old Boy: Advocates

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Brooklyn DA Investigating Crash That Killed 10-Year-Old

Email Eve Kessler at <a href="mailto:eve@streetsblog.org">eve@streetsblog.org</a>

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Aggressive Driving

Op-Ed: What To Do With the ‘Devil Wagon’

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Bike/Ped

Cops Finally Arrest Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed a Man Last Year

Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York&#8217;s dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.

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Brooklyn

Hit-and-Run Drivers Killed 2 People Walking in Brooklyn and Staten Island Over the Weekend

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Canarsie

NYPD: No Charges After Drivers Collide, Killing Shaena Sinclair and Injuring Her 6-Year-Old Son on Canarsie Sidewalk

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With Driver’s Sentence Hidden, Public Doesn’t Know If Eric Gonzalez Got Justice for Chooi Tan

David was Streetsblog&#8217;s do-it-all New York City beat reporter from 2015 to 2019. He returned as deputy editor in 2023 after a three-year stint at the New York Post.