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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
UPDATE: Cops Arrest Driver Who Killed Pedestrian in Sheepshead Bay
Another killer driver is caught — though the charges remain minor.
March 23, 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
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
Vigil for Robert Spencer — And More Demands for Polly Trottenberg to Just Build Bike Lanes
A family mourns — and demands that the city do more to make sure a seventh cyclist isn't killed this year.
March 16, 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: Cyclist is Killed in Queens — The Sixth This Year
A cyclist was struck and killed on Borden Avenue in Long Island City on Thursday morning — on a stretch of roadway where locals demanded more protection for bicyclists and pedestrians.
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
![[UPDATE] Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Pedestrian in Brooklyn is Caught](https://nyc.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2019/03/linden-bouelvard.png?w=976)
[Update]: School Bus Driver Arrested for Killing Senior in the Bronx; Another Dead in Separate Crash
The careless operator remained on the scene and was not charged, police said. And CBS2 reports of another death in the Bronx.
March 12, 2019
![[Update]: School Bus Driver Arrested for Killing Senior in the Bronx; Another Dead in Separate Crash](https://nyc.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2019/03/nypd-truck.jpg?w=1024)