Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Children

Family and Friends Dedicate Cooper Stock Way

By Brad Aaron | Jun 4, 2015 | 1 Comment

On Wednesday dozens of kids joined family members of Cooper Stock to designate W. 97th Street at West End Avenue as Cooper Stock Way. Cooper’s mother, Dana Lerner, shared memories of Cooper, along with classmates — “Cooper’s Troopers” — who waved signs imploring motorists to drive safely. Cooper, 9, was killed by a turning cab driver […]

Richard Brown: No Charges for Driver Who Killed Boy on Neighborhood Street

By Brad Aaron | Jun 3, 2015 | 4 Comments

An 8-year-old boy hit by a driver on a neighborhood street in Queens on Memorial Day died from his injuries. NYPD and Queens District Attorney Richard Brown filed no charges. Sincere Atkins was playing with his cousin outside his grandmother’s apartment, on Sutphin Boulevard near 125th Avenue, when a 21-year-old man hit him with a Toyota Corolla, […]

Motorists Kill Three Pedestrians and Seriously Injure Two Kids in Five Days

By Brad Aaron | May 26, 2015 | 2 Comments

New York City motorists killed three adults and seriously injured two children in five crashes since last Thursday. At around 10 p.m. Sunday, the driver of a Jeep Wrangler hit 7-year-old Abriana Carrasco near an ice cream truck on E. 214th Street at Paulding Avenue in the Bronx, according to the Daily News. “You could hear her crying and […]

Will NYPD Charge Driver Who Rammed Woman on Sidewalk and Left Scene?

By Brad Aaron | May 14, 2015 | 45 Comments

A motorist who deliberately drove down a Manhattan sidewalk, rammed a pedestrian, left the scene and reportedly hit a second person in Brooklyn might not be charged with a crime, according to one of the victims. Heather Hensl was walking on Beekman Street near William Street on April 13 when a motorist struck her, knocking her to the ground, lacerating her head and fracturing […]

Parents of Lucian Merryweather: Our Son’s Killer Should Never Drive Again

By Brad Aaron | May 8, 2015 | 5 Comments

This week, Anthony Byrd was formally sentenced for fatally striking 9-year-old Lucian Merryweather on a Brooklyn sidewalk. On November 2, 2013, Byrd drove a Ford SUV into two cars and a building after swerving to avoid two people in a crosswalk at DeKalb and Clermont Avenues. He then made a U-turn and drove against traffic […]

DOH: Motorist Crashes, Again the Top Killer of NYC Kids, Are Preventable

By Brad Aaron | May 8, 2015 | No Comments

Each year the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reports on the top causes of injury-related death for children in New York City, and traffic crashes consistently top the list. That remains true in the newest report [PDF]. The DOH report draws on crash data from the medical examiner’s office and DOT. From 2003 to 2012, an […]

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