Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ozone Park

Hit-and-Run Drivers Killed Two People in NYC This Weekend

By Brad Aaron | May 12, 2014 | 3 Comments

Hit-and-run drivers killed a pedestrian and a cyclist in Brooklyn and Queens this weekend. Sunday night at around 9:30, a 40-year-old man riding a bike on Rockaway Boulevard near 90th Street was struck by the driver of a Mercedes van, according to reports. NYPD told the media the driver sideswiped the cyclist from behind and […]

Eyes on the Street: Reading in Ozone Park’s New Plaza

By Stephen Miller | Nov 25, 2013 | 3 Comments

The intersection of Liberty Avenue and 101st Avenue sits on the border of Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, and Ozone Park, Queens. A few blocks from the A train and surrounded by small businesses, it’s a natural hub for the neighborhood, but the road configuration gave over large areas of the angled intersection to cars. Last year, […]

Pedestrian Reclamation on Tap for Deadly Ozone Park Intersection

By Noah Kazis | Jun 11, 2010 | 9 Comments

Pedestrian plazas planned for 94th Street and Liberty Avenue. The elevated tracks of the A train run over Liberty Ave. Image: NYCDOT One of the most dangerous intersections in Queens is slated for a DOT safety makeover. At a meeting of Queens Community Board 10 last Thursday, DOT presented a plan [PDF] to rework the […]

Connecting Transportation and Politics in Southern Queens

By Ben Fried | Jan 30, 2009 | 4 Comments

NYLCV is sending out 12,000 mailers for the February 24 City Council special election in southern Queens. On the scale of absurd political theater, fare hike hearings in New York City rank very close to the top. Elected officials heap scorn on the MTA, diverting attention from their own responsibility for underfunding transit, while beleaguered […]

No Justice for Killing of Ibrihim Ahmed

By Ben Fried | Jan 8, 2009 | 14 Comments

A facebook page apparently belonging to Alexander Aponte. The status was updated via cell phone minutes before Aponte struck and killed Ibrihim Ahmed. Another story today highlights the woeful inadequacy of our justice system to deter traffic violence and hold reckless drivers accountable for the loss of life they cause. The Daily News reports that […]

Why Let a Reckless Driver Behind the Wheel of Your Campaign Bus?

By Ben Fried | Jan 7, 2009 | 6 Comments

The scene of the collision that killed Ibrihim Ahmed. Photo: Dennis Clark/New York Post The daily papers are reporting on the death of Ibrihim Ahmed, a nine-year-old boy who was struck by a local politician’s campaign bus while walking home from school in Ozone Park yesterday. The fatal collision happened in full view of students […]