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Monday’s Headlines: Day of Remembrance (In More Ways Than One) Edition
One day, the city mourns its traffic victims. The next day, an Upper West Side community board moves to create more of them. Plus all the other news.
November 21, 2022
A Grove Grows In Brooklyn: Finally, New York Has a Memorial to Road Violence Victims
There are almost no other specific memorials for one of the world's leading causes of preventable death: car crashes, which kill roughly 1.2 million people annually.
November 18, 2022
Video Shows Cops Not Even Trying to Save Man they Struck on Eastern Parkway: Family
Where was their courtesy? Where was their professionalism? Where was their respect for this man? He wasn't dirty. He wasn't no bum off the street. That's my brother," the victim's sister said on Monday.
November 16, 2022
Days After Two Girls Were Critically Injured, DOT Hits Reset on its Sunset Park Safety Fix
Back to the drawing board. The Department of Transportation has scrapped a redesign of two dangerous avenues in Brooklyn that the agency proposed fixing in 2021.
November 9, 2022
Pedestrian Seriously Injured in Park Slope Crash as Bloody Year Continues
A pedestrian was critically injured when the 21-year-old driver of a massive Ford van slammed into him in Park Slope — and the latest analysis of crash data shows that such injuries remain all too common.
November 3, 2022
Thursday’s Headlines: Swan Song Edition
It's the end of the Streetsblog era for our blondish editor. Plus other news.
October 27, 2022
SEE IT: Red-Light-Running Driver Causes Horrific Crash on Canal Street
"No! Nooo! Aaahhhh!" Those are the horrifying utterances made by a Manhattan cyclist a split second before he was hit by a driver on Canal Street last week.
October 26, 2022
How Electronic ‘Eyes’ Will Patrol the Curb of the Future
Cameras could police bike lanes, loading zones and more — if Albany lets the city move. Advocates: Keep plugging!
October 26, 2022
One Down, Thousands to Go: Cops Bust A Really Bad Driver For Doing Less-Dangerous Stupid Thing
Police in Bay Ridge collared a reckless driver who was, in the words of the local Council member, "driving like an asshole" and doing donuts on Shore Road — but the seizure of the car only reveals the weakness in the larger system of getting dangerous drivers off the road.
October 21, 2022
Pedestrian Hit Near Citi Field on a Game Day Has Died of His Injuries
A pedestrian who was hit just a block from Citi Field a few hours before an August Mets home game by a reckless driver has died of his injuries — the latest crash around the athletic danger zone.
October 19, 2022
