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NYPD investigates the scene: bike of delivery man with orders still attached. Lloyd Mitchell/BklynerCROWN HEIGHTS — A delivery man on a bike was struck yesterday evening in Crown Heights. Yesterday, February 11, just after 5 p.m., a delivery man riding his bike en route to complete an order, was
Borough Park
13 Avenue and 53 Street. Via Google Maps.BORO PARK — Driver was arrested for striking an elderly man in Boro Park mid-January, who passed away from his injuries shortly after.On Tuesday, January 14, just before 10 p.m., police responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision
News
HARLEM — Yesterday, a Brooklynite was struck to death in Harlem after collapsing in the street. On Thursday, December 26, 2019, around 6:50 p.m., Paul Cedres, a 58-year-old man residing in Cypress Hills, was struck near the intersection of 116th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem while crossing
Announcements
Doug Gordon. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)PARK SLOPE — Street safety advocate Doug Gordon, 45, has over 20,000 followers [https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://twitter.com/BrooklynSpoke%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1576274883841000&sa=D&ust=1576274883854000&usg=AFQjCNGqWkQy5mLQPsLURATbwAupZy5SPw]
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Thomas and Lennie. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)COBBLE HILL – The first thing one notices when approaching Thomas DeVito is a beautiful Jindo-mix puppy named Lennie who, much like her owner, doesn’t like to sit still. DeVito is the Director of Advocacy at Transportation Alternatives, an organization [https://www.transalt.
Police & Fire
Photo courtesy of Tony Giordano.Two pedestrians were injured when the driver of a silver sedan hit them as they walked on 49th Street near Fifth Avenue in the middle of a sunny Sunday afternoon on April 24, shortly before 4pm, said police. According to the NYPD, “one male pedestrian
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Photo by Fort Greene FocusA woman was killed after riding her bike the wrong way on Classon Avenue. A 34-year-old victim died early Friday morning after being struck by a 2015 red Fiat near Lexington Avenue, while riding southbound the one-way throughway, say cops. She suffered massive trauma to her
Police & Fire
Photo by Alvimann [ http://mrg.bz/VErTdX].A little girl in a stroller was struck by a car near 51st Street and Fourth Avenue at around 12:30pm this afternoon and she was rushed to Lutheran Medical Center with “bruising on the lower part of her body,” according to police
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Photo via via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6848153,-73.9781373,3a,75y,173.58h,82.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPfyF9HVUMn3y1G0EHnS8rA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656] Local street safety advocates and politicians are not wasting any time in keeping up the pressure on the city Department of Transportation
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Image via Google Maps.Local street safety advocates and politicians are not wasting any time in keeping up the pressure on the city Department of Transportation (DOT) to keep safety in mind when designing a revamped public plaza at the highly-trafficked intersection of Flatbush, Atlantic, and Fourth Avenues. Just two
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.The debate around traffic, pedestrian, and street safety is a constant in Brooklyn, with changes large and small happening almost daily: new bike lanes and pedestrian islands added, left turns banned, and extended crossing times for pedestrians are just a few examples. But there’s
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Photo via lottaluggage_grace [https://www.instagram.com/p/6usYOGR-b8/?tagged=brooklynbike]A new City Council bill [http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2564366&GUID=D4E7E09A-5B98-4C14-BAC8-A9D242408B26&Options=ID%7cText%7c&Search=menchaca] has been proposed that would allow a bicyclist to cross a street with
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A new City Council bill [http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2564366&GUID=D4E7E09A-5B98-4C14-BAC8-A9D242408B26&Options=ID%7cText%7c&Search=menchaca] has been proposed that would allow a bicyclist to cross a street with the pedestrian light — instead of with the vehicle traffic lights, which they
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Image via NYCDOTThe NYC Department of Transportation [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/current-projects.shtml#plaza-program] (DOT) revealed its preliminary design proposal for the extension and landscaping of Times Plaza to the public at the Brooklyn YWCA last week [/blog/2016/01/26/public-workshop-for-future-development-of-historic-times-plaza-to-be-held-wednesday-january-27/] , asking for community input,
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Image via NYCDOTThe city Department of Transportation [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/current-projects.shtml#plaza-program] (DOT) revealed its preliminary design proposal for the extension and landscaping of Times Plaza to the public at the Brooklyn YWCA last week [/blog/2016/01/26/public-workshop-for-future-development-of-historic-times-plaza-to-be-held-wednesday-january-27/] , asking for community input,
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Image via NYCDOT.Transportation-related projects show no sign of slowing down in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, as the above map from the city Department of Transportation (DOT) shows no fewer than nine projects planned here for 2016 and beyond. They range from creating left turn lanes and shortening crosswalks