Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Astoria

After Fatal Hit-and-Run, Queens CB 1 Calls on DOT to Redesign 21st Street

By David Meyer | Apr 20, 2016 | 11 Comments

Queens Community Board 1 endorsed a resolution late last night asking DOT for a “comprehensive redesign of the entire length of 21st Street along Complete Street principles.” The vote comes after a hit-and-run driver killed 45-year-old Sean Crume walking across 21st Street at 30th Road, where there is no signalized crossing, earlier this month. It was the fourth fatality on […]

Hit-and-Run Driver Kills 45-Year-Old Man Crossing 21st Street in Astoria

By David Meyer | Apr 7, 2016 | 4 Comments

Update: The victim in this crash was identified as Sean Crume, age 45, according to NYPD. A hit-and-run driver killed a man walking across 21st Street in Astoria last night. The crash occurred just before 11 p.m. at the intersection of 21st Street and 30th Road, where there’s an unmarked crosswalk with no traffic signal. The driver continued for […]

DOT Proposes East-West Bike Route on 31st Ave in Queens

By David Meyer | Mar 15, 2016 | 15 Comments

Last summer, a group of Queens residents began organizing as the Queens Bike Initiative. Their mission: to push the city to build bike connections linking their neighborhoods in northern Queens to the borough’s parks. Nine months later, DOT has presented a plan to stripe a bike route on 31st Avenue [PDF], which the Queens Bike Initiative is lauding […]

Queens CB 1 Votes for Protected Bike Lanes By Astoria Park

By David Meyer | Feb 17, 2016 | 5 Comments

By a vote of 33 to 1 last night, Queens Community Board 1 endorsed DOT’s plan for traffic-calming on the streets around Astoria Park. Local electeds requested traffic-calming in the area after a hit-and-run driver killed 21-year-old Betty DiBiaso at the intersection of 19th Street and Ditmars Boulevard, at the park’s northeast corner. The DOT redesign will add two-way protected […]

DOT’s Astoria Park Safety Plan Calls for 3 Protected Bike Lanes

By David Meyer | Jan 21, 2016 | 51 Comments

Last June, a hit-and-run driver killed 21-year-old Betty DiBiaso at the intersection of 19th Street and Ditmars Boulevard, next to Astoria Park. The loss of DiBiaso prompted a neighborhood-wide discussion about the need to improve street safety around one of Queens’ most visited parks, and on Tuesday night DOT showed Queens Community Board 2 its proposals for the area […]

Richard Brown: Homicide Conviction for Driver Who Killed Betty DiBiaso

By Brad Aaron | Nov 20, 2015 | 3 Comments

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown won a homicide conviction against a hit-and-run driver who killed a woman near Astoria Park last summer. Betty Jean DiBiaso was leaving the park at around 12:26 a.m. on June 27 when Nicholas Colleran, 24, ran a stop sign and hit her with a Chevrolet sedan as she crossed Ditmars Boulevard […]

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