NYPD’s Reckless Driver ‘Crackdown’ is a Breezy Three-Week Affair
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Fifteen cyclists are dead and this is all the NYPD can come up with — a three-week ticket blitz?
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Cyclist Critically Wounded by Driver in 2016 Has Died of His Injuries
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A Borough Park boy who was struck by a driver on his way to synagogue nearly three years ago has died of his injuries, Streetsblog has learned. Moshe Yehuda Wolpin was hit at the corner of Dahill and Cortelyou roads on Sept. 14, 2016 — and spent every day since shuttling in and out of hospitals […]
LAUGHABLE: The NYPD is the Front Line of Mayor de Blasio’s ‘Crackdown’ on Bike Lane Parkers?
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Mayor de Blasio's announcement that he had ordered the NYPD to crackdown on reckless drivers and cars parked in bike lanes is being ridiculed for one key reason: NYPD officers routinely drive recklessly in their personal cars and often park in bike lanes.
UPDATED: IT’S FIFTEEN NOW: Woman Cyclist Killed in Bushwick
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A cyclist was killed by a cement truck in Bushwick on Monday at around 12:20 p.m., police said.
Memorial Vigil Will Seek Justice for Slain Cyclist Ernest Askew
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Activists are planning a 6 p.m. memorial vigil for the dead cyclist at the scene of his death: Sutter Avenue at Chester Street in Brooklyn.
‘End Legal Murder In NYC’! Hundreds Mourn Cyclist Robyn Hightman in Memorial Ride
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Hundreds of cyclists rode from Williamsburg to Chelsea last night, taking over the roadway from lower Manhattan to 23rd Street, in a memorial ride for 20-year-old Robyn Hightman, a bike courier who this week became the 12th cyclist killed on New York City streets in 2019.