Neighbors
A memorial for Sean Ryan at the Gerritsen Beach ballfields. Photo by Jon Farina. After Sean Ryan, 17, was hit head-on and killed by an allegedly speeding drunk driver on the night of July 17, locals of Gerritsen Beach are imploring the city to install more traffic lights Gerritsen Avenue,
Police & Fire
The scene of a fatal car crash at Emmons and Nostrand avenues. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)City Councilman Chaim Deutsch has called on the Department of Transportation to install a dedicated left-turn signal at the intersection of Emmons and Nostrand avenues after a horrific car crash there caused the
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Photo by Tom PrendergastAfter a car collision at 8th Avenue and Windsor Place a few weeks ago [/blog/crime/collision-at-windsor-place-and-8th-avenue], many readers commented about the need for a traffic light at the intersection. We checked in with the DOT [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml], who
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61st Precinct Deputy Inspector Carlos ValdezDeputy Inspector Carlos Valdez, commanding officer of the 61st Precinct, will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Manhattan Beach Community Group (MBCG), Wednesday, October 22 at 8:00pm inside Public School 195, 131 Irwin Street at Hampton Avenue. Valdez will discuss
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Following the death of Ditmas Park’s Ngozi Agbim [/crime/pedestrian-struck-on-ocean-parkway-at-church-ave] as she crossed the Ocean Parkway/Prospect Expressway intersection at Church Avenue on June 24, Assemblymember Jim Brennan reports that the Department of Transportation [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml] Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan has agreed
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In case you’re wondering what the work is along Church Avenue — today, at the corner of McDonald — the Welsbach Electric Corporation is working on repairing traffic lights. We tried to ask how long the work is going to take, but with the jackhammers going, it wasn’t going to
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Let there be traffic lights at the intersection of Ditmas Avenue and Westminster Road! They couldn’t come soon enough — two [/blog/crime/two-car-collision-on-ditmas-at-westminster] traffic collisions [/blog/crime/another-two-car-collision-on-ditmas-at-westminster] occurred at the intersection since the installation of the new lights first began [/blog/transportation/traffic-light-coming-to-ditmas-and-westminster-intersection] . Thanks again to Council Member
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Source: Karelj via Wikimedia CommonsThe intersection at Fourth Avenue and 86th Street has been approved for a large reconfiguration project to aid in safer driving and pedestrian access. Community Board 10 says that area is high with driver and pedestrian accidents, according to CB10 District Manager Josephine Beckmann. After months