Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Curb Jumping

No Charges for Cabbie Who Severely Injured Woman on Sidewalk Near NYU

By Brad Aaron | Apr 7, 2016 | 85 Comments

Middle aged woman struck by taxi on university and 8th. She has been evacuated. @nyunews pic.twitter.com/QVwP7sl0YQ — Diamond Naga Siu (@diamondnagasiu) April 7, 2016 A yellow cab driver severely injured a woman on a sidewalk in Greenwich Village this morning. The victim was struck at around 10:50 a.m. on University Place near East Eighth Street. Gothamist says […]

Driver Who Killed Charity Hicks Pleads to Homicide and Leaving the Scene

By Brad Aaron | Mar 22, 2016 | 1 Comment

The hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a Detroit woman as she waited for a bus in Hell’s Kitchen pled guilty to homicide and felony leaving the scene. He will serve a minimum of two and a maximum of six years in prison, pursuant to a judge’s plea offer. Thomas Shanley drove a Dodge SUV onto the […]

Epileptic Cab Driver on Trial for Murder for Bronx Sidewalk Killings

By Brad Aaron | Feb 24, 2016 | 4 Comments

The driver of a green cab who killed a child and a man on a Bronx sidewalk last year was charged with murder. The Bronx district attorney’s office said Emilio Garcia was not taking his epilepsy medication when he fatally struck 5-year-old Tierre Clark and 25-year-old Kadeem Brown on the Grand Concourse at E. 170th Street on March 20, […]

Years After Death of Ariel Russo, NYPD Chases Still Injuring and Killing People

By Brad Aaron | Feb 22, 2016 | 1 Comment

Last week Franklin Reyes was sentenced to three to nine years in prison for the death of 4-year-old Ariel Russo. Police pulled Reyes over on W. 89th Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues, on June 4, 2013, after he drove his family’s pick-up truck across several lanes to make a turn. As officers walked toward the […]

Gwendolyn Booker, Killed by School Bus Driver on Atlantic Avenue Sidewalk

By Brad Aaron | Feb 8, 2016 | 7 Comments

Another pedestrian was killed on Atlantic Avenue when a motorist struck a woman on the sidewalk. Gwendolyn Booker, 50, was walking on Atlantic near Schenectady Avenue last Friday at around 6:30 p.m. when a school bus driver mounted the curb, according to NYPD and published accounts. From Gothamist: The bus struck two light poles, a gas station, […]

Sidewalk Killer Free to Drive Thanks to Judge and Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson

By Brad Aaron | Jan 12, 2016 | 16 Comments

A judge refused to take the license of the motorist who killed Victoria Nicodemus on a Brooklyn sidewalk because, she said, District Attorney Ken Thompson filed no charges for reckless driving. Marlon Sewell was allegedly driving without a valid license when he hit Nicodemus and two other people on Fulton Street on December 6, injuring Nicodemus’s boyfriend and the […]

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