Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Curb Jumping

Sidewalk Killer Free to Drive Thanks to Judge and Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson

By Brad Aaron | Jan 12, 2016 | 16 Comments

A judge refused to take the license of the motorist who killed Victoria Nicodemus on a Brooklyn sidewalk because, she said, District Attorney Ken Thompson filed no charges for reckless driving. Marlon Sewell was allegedly driving without a valid license when he hit Nicodemus and two other people on Fulton Street on December 6, injuring Nicodemus’s boyfriend and the […]

Eyes on the Street: Just Another Brush With Death at a Typical NYC Crossing

By Brad Aaron | Jan 8, 2016 | 33 Comments

The design of 29th Street and 39th Avenue in Long Island City is typical of thousands of New York City crossings: an intersection of relatively narrow streets where drivers are allowed to park to the edge of crosswalks with no design elements to force motorists to slow down. The combination of poor visibility and lack of traffic-calming features […]

NYC Drivers Killed at Least 16 People on Sidewalks and in Buildings in 2015

By Brad Aaron | Jan 7, 2016 | 16 Comments

A woman who was struck by an unattended taxi in December died from her injuries this week. The driver was not charged by NYPD or Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance. Suhuyn Park, 22, and her 21-year-old boyfriend were walking at W. 51st Street and Eighth Avenue at around 8:30 p.m. on December 30 when a yellow cab, […]

Victoria Nicodemus, 14th Person Killed by Curb-Jumping NYC Driver in 2015

By Brad Aaron | Dec 7, 2015 | 19 Comments

An alleged unlicensed driver who witnesses say was traveling at a high rate of speed struck and killed a woman on a sidewalk in Fort Greene yesterday. Marlon Sewell, 39, drove a Chevrolet SUV over the curb at 694 Fulton Street, near South Portland Avenue, at around 5:30 p.m. Sunday, striking 30-year-old Victoria Nicodemus, her 37-year-old boyfriend, […]

Sidewalks Are No Sanctuary: Driver Jumps Curb, Kills 3 in the Bronx

By Brad Aaron | Nov 2, 2015 | 35 Comments

A motorist killed three people Saturday, including a 10-year-old girl, and injured three others when he drove onto a Bronx sidewalk crowded with trick-or-treaters. Police told the media Howard Unger, 52, of the Bronx, was driving west on Morris Park Avenue in a Dodge sedan at around 5 p.m. when he hit another vehicle from behind […]

DA Robert Johnson: Manslaughter Charges for Cab Driver Who Killed Two

By Brad Aaron | Oct 20, 2015 | 2 Comments

District Attorney Robert Johnson has filed felony charges against the green cab driver who killed two people on a Bronx sidewalk. Johnson’s office told Gothamist Emilio Garcia was off his epilepsy medication when he hit 5-year-old Tierre Clark and Kadeem Brown, 25, at the Grand Concourse and E. 170th Street on March 20. Reports published after the crash […]

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