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Scene following the crash at 9th Street & 5th Avenue (Photo courtesy of Lloyd Mitchell)PARK SLOPE – Assembly Member Robert Carroll and Senators Jesse Hamilton and Jose Peralta were joined by other elected officials at the corner of 9th Street and Fifth Avenue on Friday morning to announce increased safety
Central Brooklyn
FLATBUSH – A disabled motorist lost control of his car Thursday evening, striking one pedestrian in a crosswalk and hitting a pickup truck before crashing into a nail salon at 2095 Nostrand Avenue, police say. 2095 Nostrand Avenue via Google MapsThe incident occurred just after 7pm at the intersection of Glenwood
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PARK SLOPE – Following a rally Tuesday morning [/safe-streets-kids-neighbors-demand-driver-kills-two-children-crosswalk/] where organizers confronted Mayor de Blasio and demanded he take steps to make 9th Street safer, Council Member Brad Lander sent out a statement outlining ideas on how to improve city streets. Memorial at 9th Street and 5th Avenue (Photo: Dina Rabiner)
Kids & Family
Mayor de Blasio speaks with protesters, including organizer Doug Gordon, Families for Safe Streets activist Amy Cohen, and Transportation Alternatives Executive Director Paul Steely White, outside the Prospect Park YMCA on Tuesday morning.PARK SLOPE – About a hundred protesters crowded the sidewalks outside the Prospect Park YMCA this morning, just
News
PARK SLOPE – The NYPD released more information regarding yesterday’s tragic car crash [/two-children-struck-killed-5th-ave-9th-street/] that left two young children dead. Scene following the crash at 9th Street & 5th Avenue (Photo courtesy of Lloyd Mitchell)At approximately 12:40pm on Monday, March 5, police say they responded to a call
Events
Scene following the crash at 9th Street & 5th Avenue (Photo courtesy of Lloyd Mitchell)PARK SLOPE – Following Monday’s fatal crash [/two-children-struck-killed-5th-ave-9th-street/] that left two children dead and a pregnant mother in critical condition, Park Slope residents are expressing their frustrations with the city’s failure to fix the
Central Brooklyn
86 Street & 7 Avenue, BrooklynThe Mayor is getting serious about congestion and just announced 50 intersections across the city where additional traffic enforcement will take place, with cops aggressively issuing tickets to those who”block the box”. NYPD is hiring 50 uniformed officers to do just that. Five of
celebrity
Intersection of Atlantic & Washington Avenues via Google MapsPROSPECT HEIGHTS – Actress Amber Tamblyn [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848554/?ref_=nv_sr_1] took to Twitter on Sunday to ask her followers for help in tracking down the driver of a grey van who she says tried to hit her
Bensonhurst
Photo by @NYC911NEWS for BKLYNERBENSONHURST/GRAVESEND – A horrible beginning to the rainy Friday morning. Neighbor John Ramondino, 73, of West 6th Street, was run over twice while crossing West 6th Street at 65th Street shortly before 6 am, NYPD confirmed. He died from the injuries on the scene, half a
Big Story
Scene of the incident last night, where a right turning box truck with Bread depo logos on the sides killed a pedestrian crossing Ocean Parkway. Photo by Sam Polcer.We are incredibly sad to report that last night another life was claimed at the intersection of Church Avenue and Ocean
East New York
EAST NEW YORK – The DOT is planning some major safety upgrades to the far end of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn as part of the $250 million Vision Zero “Great Streets” program, presenting the proposed changes at a Transportation Committee meeting for CB5 in East New York last night. In an
Police & Fire
SUNSET PARK – A Brooklyn woman dozing during her commute home early Friday morning awoke to an unwelcome sight. The incident occurred at approximately 2am on February 23 on a southbound “R” train, according to the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/woman-stabs-creep-masturbated-front-train-article-1.3837863] . The 42-year-old victim