Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ray Kelly

Waiting for Raymond: Drivers Don’t Have to Be Distracted to Be Reckless

By Brad Aaron | Jan 25, 2010 | No Comments

Photo: Newsday When it comes to the perils of distracted driving, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly seems to get it. The Post reported yesterday that Kelly plans to "urge" the DMV to attach license points to tickets for driving while using a cell phone. The violation currently carries a $130 fine, but comes with no points, […]

Police Academy 2: Starring a 3,000-Car Garage

By Ben Fried | Dec 21, 2009 | 14 Comments

Cadets will have a hard time getting to New York City’s next police academy, now under construction, without driving. Image: NYT/Michael Fieldman Architects and Perkins+Will. Last week brought another prime example of Bloomberg administration schizophrenia on urban sustainability. After his flight back from the Copenhagen climate summit, the mayor’s first stop was a former auto […]

Unlicensed Drivers, Coddled By the Law, Kill Three More New Yorkers

By Brad Aaron | Nov 30, 2009 | 20 Comments

In handing down a prison term of 20-to-life for Auvryn Scarlett, the garbage hauler who had stopped taking his epilepsy medication before suffering a seizure behind the wheel and killing two pedestrians last year, Justice Richard Carruthers described the convicted as "a time bomb ready to explode at any moment on the streets of New […]

NYC’s Next Four Years: From Good Enough to Great

By Paul Steely White | Nov 11, 2009 | 11 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg has already shown how much his administration can accomplish in just a few years. Since Janette Sadik-Khan’s appointment to head the DOT in 2007, the city has striped hundreds of miles of bike lanes, reclaimed acres of street space for pedestrians and improved bus travel for tens of thousands of New Yorkers. “More […]

Even When the Killer Driver Is Drunk, Obstacles to Justice Abound

By Brad Aaron | Nov 4, 2009 | 7 Comments

After two incidents in two months of off-duty NYPD officers running down and killing pedestrians, then refusing to submit to Breathalyzer tests, police Commissioner Ray Kelly this week convened a panel aimed at expediting the collection of blood evidence from motorists arrested on suspicion of driving drunk. The deaths of Vionique Valnord and Drana Nivac […]

When It Comes to Vehicular Violence, NYPD Sees No Evil

By Brad Aaron | Oct 8, 2009 | 29 Comments

See any victims here? Neither does NYPD. Photo: Daily News Wednesday morning in Douglaston, Queens, an out-of-control driver plowed into a small crowd of commuters waiting for a Q30 bus. Witnesses say the as-yet-unidentified motorist, 17, was attempting to pass another vehicle when he lost control on rain-slicked Douglaston Parkway and jumped the curb. Reports […]

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