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Damage Control or Double-Down? CB9 To Make Announcement in Wake of Preventable Death
Community Board 9 may embrace a street safety redesign that it has long opposed for upper Amsterdam Avenue — and all it took was a young woman's death along the notorious speedway. Or maybe not.
March 25, 2019
Outrage Over Pedestrian Death on Amsterdam Centers on Do-Nothing Community Board
Amsterdam Avenue: a roadway that Community Board 9 has consistently prevented from being redesigned.
March 24, 2019
Killer Hit-and-Run Driver Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in Staten Island
The Staten Island driver who was going 100 miles per hour when he mowed down a pedestrian back in June has pleaded guilty to the rare charge of manslaughter.
March 21, 2019
S-COP-LAWS: Staten Island Has Lots and Lots of Recklessly Driving Cops
Want to be safe in Staten Island? Don't be on the streets when cops are driving to or leaving their station houses.
March 21, 2019
The City Might Give Up Its Plan to Ban Cars On One Jackson Heights Street
The city may surrender a years-in-the making plan to transform a Jackson Heights street into a pedestrian friendly car-free plaza because of a well-connected, wait for it, car dealership!
March 21, 2019
Enough is Enough: Five Ways to Fix the Brooklyn Bridge Right Now
Here are some easy fixes for DOT officials, from their friends at Streetsblog.
March 20, 2019
Group Calls for Amsterdaming Most of Lower Manhattan
Crowded streets in Lower Manhattan must give more space to throngs of tourists and other pedestrians with new designs that would bring motorists to a crawl, says a neighborhood group.
March 19, 2019
Three More Precincts Filled with Recklessly Driving ‘S-Cop-Laws’
Streetsblog's ongoing investigation uncovers even more cops with horrendous personal driving records.
March 18, 2019
Neighborhood Residents to de Blasio: Get Reckless Recidivist Cop off Our Streets!
The mayor remains silent on the issue of the Manhattan cop with 41 speeding and red-light tickets — so locals gave him an earful.
March 14, 2019
[UPDATE] Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Pedestrian in Brooklyn is Caught
A Brooklyn man was killed when a driver ran him down on Linden Boulevard in East New York — then kept on going, police said.
March 13, 2019
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