Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Margaret Chin

Council Members Say DOT Needs Funds for Vision Zero, Bike-Share Expansion

By Brad Aaron | Mar 6, 2014 | 1 Comment

City Council members today expressed strong support for Vision Zero, bike-share expansion, and other safe streets initiatives, but it’s not clear how they will be funded. At a transportation committee budget hearing, council members heard from the Taxi and Limousine Commission, the MTA, and DOT. Among other issues, reps from each agency were asked how […]

Margaret Chin and 1,000 Citizens Ask NYPD to Investigate Pedestrian Death

By Brad Aaron | Nov 28, 2012 | 5 Comments

Council Member Margaret Chin’s office has joined those calling for a full investigation into the death of Kwok Fu, the 82-year-old man who was struck by the driver of a National Guard truck on Canal Street. A convoy of National Guard trucks was on its way to the Javits Center to pick up Sandy relief […]

National Guard Says It Is Not Investigating Fatal Chinatown Crash

By Brad Aaron | Nov 14, 2012 | 20 Comments

Accounts of last week’s fatal crash in Chinatown do not match that of the National Guard, which insists a convoy was following an NYPD escort when the driver of one of the trucks struck an elderly man on Canal Street after reportedly running a red light. The National Guard is not conducting its own investigation into the crash, […]

NYPD: Not Even a Ticket for Truck Driver Who Killed LES Pedestrian

By Brad Aaron | Aug 21, 2012 | 9 Comments

We have more details on the August 9 crash that killed a pedestrian on the Lower East Side, though many of them conflict with information previously provided by NYPD. According to a witness account first published by Bowery Boogie, the victim was crossing Allen Street at Stanton Street at around 10 p.m. when she was […]

Council Members Propose Widening Brooklyn Bridge Bike-Ped Path

By Alex Rothberg | Aug 7, 2012 | 30 Comments

Council Members Brad Lander, Margaret Chin, and Stephen Levin — along with advocates from Transportation Alternatives — stood at the Manhattan entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge this morning and put forth a proposal to expand the bridge’s increasingly popular and exceedingly cramped bike and pedestrian path. “It’s about time, in 2012, that we update it […]

DNAInfo: Pedestrians Have No Time to Cross Delancey

By Noah Kazis | Jan 31, 2012 | 19 Comments

In the wake of the death of Dashane Santana, the 12-year-old girl killed by a minivan driver while she was crossing Delancey Street earlier this month, Lower East Side leaders are demanding safety improvements for the many pedestrians who cross this approach to the Williamsburg Bridge. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Borough President Scott Stringer, State […]

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