Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Borough Park

Bill Thompson Rents Ads-by-Bicycle to Woo Borough Park Voters

By Stephen Miller | Sep 10, 2013 | 2 Comments

Here’s an ironic twist for the mayoral candidate who all but ignored bicycling and walking in his transportation platform: Bill Thompson has rented mobile advertisements-by-bike, with yellow-vested, red-helmeted riders pedaling around Borough Park with Yiddish-language advertisements for his campaign. Despite Thompson’s anemic transportation policy, it’s a step up from the last time around. In 2009, he made […]

No Charges Filed as Six Are Killed by NYC Drivers in Seven Days

By Brad Aaron | Mar 14, 2013 | 6 Comments

A Brooklyn woman who was struck by a truck driver in Red Hook Wednesday was the latest victim among six city pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in the last week. At approximately 6:40 a.m. yesterday, Lillian Cruz, 60, was crossing Hamilton Avenue at Court Street when the signal changed and the driver of a tractor-trailer, westbound […]

Pedestrian Abraham Samet Killed by Driver in Borough Park Last Monday

By Brad Aaron | Mar 19, 2012 | 19 Comments

Streetsblog has learned that the man killed by the driver of a van in Borough Park last week was Abraham Samet, 68. NYPD told Streetsblog that Samet was struck while crossing New Utrecht Avenue at 12th Avenue at 12:33 p.m. on Monday, March 12. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Maimonides Medical Center. No […]

Requiem for Three Pedestrian Islands in Boro Park

By Ben Fried | Jul 1, 2011 | 12 Comments

For the historical record, here’s three minutes of rather dull video capturing the pedestrian refuges on Fort Hamilton Parkway and 46th Street in Brooklyn. When the camera pans right you can also see the intersection at 47th Street, where there’s another refuge. I took the footage at the tail end of the p.m. rush this […]

What We Don’t Know About the Crash That Killed Aileen Chen

By Charles Komanoff | Jun 9, 2011 | 127 Comments

Here are a dozen questions pertaining to the crash that took the life of 16-year-old Stuyvesant H.S. student Aileen Chen as she rode her bicycle last Saturday a block from her home in Borough Park at around 6 p.m. How fast was the BMW traveling when Aileen and her bicycle first came into view? How […]

Maimonides Hospital, FDNY: Boro Park Ped Islands Don’t Slow Response Times

By Noah Kazis | Jun 9, 2011 | 11 Comments

Here’s something Marcia Kramer, Dov Hikind, and Marty Markowitz forgot to mention in all their accumulated lawsuit threats, media events, and TV coverage on the Fort Hamilton Parkway pedestrian refuges: FDNY and Maimonides hospital report that the project has not affected response times. In opposing the pedestrian islands, designed to calm traffic and provide a […]

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