If the plaza goes through, it will not only take part of the street, but also nix seven parking spaces in an area where every space is prime real estate.
Uh, this stretch of Broadway is not exactly overrun with traffic. The bigger impact will be that cars turning right on Bedford will have to go about 20′ out of their way. I think we’ll survive.
In 2012, victims whose lives were ended by reckless drivers ranged in age from 2 to 92. Two small boys were fatally struck as their horrified and helpless parents looked on. A high school football player with college prospects was run over by two drivers while riding his bike. A veteran UPS man on his regular rounds was crushed to death on a sidewalk. A grandmother of 22 who survived Auschwitz was killed by a driver in pursuit of a parking spot.
With murders at a historical low, the odds of a New Yorker being killed by a stranger with a car are probably greater than the odds of being “murdered” by a stranger.
This is so awful (and so pathetic):
Forced by a looming Freedom of Information Law deadline, on Friday the New York Police Department finally told the mother of Mathieu Lefevre what it knows about the cycling death of her son last fall.
The documents released directly contradict the initial version of events put out by police, and suggest an investigation so sloppy that the likelihood of getting justice for Lefevre’s death is scant.
Contrary to initial reports (by the police), the truck that killed Lefevre failed to signal the turn that took the cyclist’s life, and then dragged the bike itself for a couple hundred feet. Shattering the CSI myth, NYPD investigators couldn’t even take photos of the crime scene – they couldn’t get the camera to work. Crime scene evidence, including blood on the bumper of the truck, was lost, pretty much ensuring that the driver can’t be prosecuted (or, for that matter, exonerated). The video that shows all this wasn’t found until two months after the accident, and then only after the family of the victim pressured the police to do a complete investigation.
Lepoldo Hernandez, 57, was struck and killed by two vans at the intersection of Borinquen and Keap yesterday morning. This is a particularly pedestrian-unfriendly intersection, in the pre-dawn hours, with a (allegedly) speeding van. DNA Info (which is new to the neighborhood beat) includes a set of heart-wrenching on-the-scene photos.
Katherine Yun, 25 years old, was killed by a city sanitation truck while crossing Broadway at Driggs last night.
