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THE OTHER PANDEMIC: 2020 Has Been a Very, Very Bloody Year on NYC Streets

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 1, 2020 | No Comments

So far, 173 people have died on the roads this year, up from 164, or 5.5 percent, over the same period last year — even though total number of vehicle miles traveled is down significantly.

It Has Taken Months, But City DOI Finally Nabs a City Employee for Placard Abuse

By Gersh Kuntzman | Sep 30, 2020 | No Comments

The Department of Investigation arraigned a high-level city employee for using a fake placard — one of, um, one city employees criminally busted for doing what many city employees and residents do every day.

Thanks to cars, children in New York are never really safe. And that is the mayor's fault, advocates say. File photo: Bess Adler

Girl’s Death Renews Call For Safe Streets Around Schools As Kids Start In-Person Learning

By Julianne Cuba | Sep 29, 2020 | No Comments

The mayor has failed to keep school kids safe as they return to public schools this week amid an epidemic of speeding and reckless driving, advocates bellowed on Tuesday, one day after a 7-year-old girl was killed by an armored truck driver.

Hit-And-Run Drivers Kill Two Men in Separate Incidents

By Gersh Kuntzman | Sep 28, 2020 | No Comments

Two more New Yorkers are dead as a result of careless driving — with both drivers speeding off as their victims died in the road.

The cops writing Zoltan a ticket for not wearing a helmet on Sept. 5. Photo provided

NYPD Claims it Voided Bogus Ticket To Crash Victim For Not Wearing Helmet

By Julianne Cuba | Sep 28, 2020 | No Comments

The NYPD has a history of wrongly ticketing cyclists for made-up rules, misunderstanding vehicular laws, especially when it involves bikers, and even blaming them for their own deaths or injuries after crashes.

The Queensboro Bridge, packed with essential workers just trying to get to and from work. File photo: Melodie Bryant

Sunday’s Protest to Demand More Pedestrian Space on the Queensboro Bridge Has Historic Echoes

By Gersh Kuntzman | Sep 24, 2020 | No Comments

Activists will gather at the Queensboro Bridge on Sunday to demand more space for pedestrians, 30 years after a similar band of pedestrian advocates got arrested for doing the same.

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