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Kids trying to cross Canal Street on a "Gridlock Alert" day on Wednesday. File photo: Julianne Cuba

Mayor Issues ‘Gridlock Alert’ Days, But Driving Continues Unabated Because of Poor Policies: Advocates

By Julianne Cuba | Sep 23, 2021 | No Comments

Car drivers are basically ignoring the city's “Gridlock Alert” days for the UN General Assembly this week, and the mayor had nothing to say.

Mayor Says He Doesn’t Know Why the ‘Reckless Driver’ Law Isn’t Saving Kids from the Deadliest Drivers

By Julianne Cuba | Sep 15, 2021 | No Comments

It's like one hand doesn't know what the other hand isn't doing.

An NYPD squad car sits in the bike lane across from a memorial for a 3-month-old killed by a reckless driver at the corner of Vanderbilt and Gates avenues in Brooklyn. Photo: Julianne Cuba

Who Failed Baby Apolline? Literally Everyone in Multiple Agencies in All Three Branches of Government

By Julianne Cuba | Sep 14, 2021 | No Comments

Failure has many fathers.

A curbside rain garden in Queens. Photo: NYC DEP

Please Stay On The Grass: More Absorbent Streets Could Mean Less Catastrophically Flooded Subways

By Dave Colon | Sep 3, 2021 | No Comments

Here’s what the city has to do now. Ripping up some asphalt is a start.

Sarah Pitts's ghost bike is in the foreground. The scene of her death is in the background. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

REST IN PEACE, SARAH: Dangerous Williamsburg Intersection Gets Overdue Fix

By Julianne Cuba | Sep 2, 2021 | No Comments

It's a safety fix that one victim's family says should have come sooner.

The intersection where a driver killed a 69-year-old woman on Friday morning. Photo: Google Maps

De Blasio’s Deadliest Year: A Senior is Killed By Driver in Bensonhurst

By Julianne Cuba | Aug 27, 2021 | No Comments

A Bensonhurst woman is dead after she was run over by the driver of a pickup truck on Friday morning — just days after a six-year-old girl was killed while crossing the street with her mom not far from the scene of Friday's fatal crash.

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