Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

Victims’ Families to Morgenthau: Prosecute Driver for Deadly Negligence

By Ben Fried | Mar 9, 2009 | 4 Comments

On the morning of January 22, Diego Martinez and Hayley Ng were walking with their preschool class on East Broadway when an unattended delivery van jumped the curb in reverse and killed them. The three-ton vehicle had been left double-parked and idling by its operator before it backed onto the sidewalk with deadly force. To […]

Monday: Rally for Traffic Justice at Manhattan DA’s Office

By Ben Fried | Mar 6, 2009 | 2 Comments

We’re re-posting the notice for this demonstration, which is back on for Monday after being postponed due to the snowstorm earlier this week. Note that the rally is on for noon, not earlier in the day as previously scheduled. The families of Hayley Ng and Diego Martinez, the two preschoolers killed by a van while […]

Rally at DA’s Office Postponed

By Ben Fried | Mar 1, 2009 | No Comments

The families organizing the demonstration at the Manhattan DA’s office, which was planned for Monday morning, are postponing the event due to the snowstorm hitting the city. The rally is tentatively re-scheduled for next Monday, March 9. We’ll let you know when the date has been finalized.

No More Years: 89-Year-Old Robert Morgenthau to Step Down

By Brad Aaron | Feb 27, 2009 | 5 Comments

City Room is reporting that Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau will not seek re-election this year. Morgenthau, who will turn 90 this summer, has held the post since 1975. His departure marks a changing of the guard and opens one of Manhattan’s plum elected posts for the first time in decades — a major draw […]

An Open Letter to NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly

By Streetsblog | Feb 11, 2009 | 27 Comments

This letter originally appeared this month in Transportation Alternatives’ magazine, Reclaim. Author Steve Hindy is a member of the T.A. Board of Directors. He and his wife, Ellen Foote, became advocates of safer streets after their son Sam was killed in a bicycle crash on the Manhattan Bridge in 2007. Rasha Shamoon was struck riding […]

Grieving Chinatown Families to Morgenthau: We’re Not Going Away

By Brad Aaron | Feb 5, 2009 | 6 Comments

Relatives of Hayley Ng and Diego Martinez, two preschoolers struck and killed by a van in Chinatown on January 22, continue to demand justice from Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. On WCBS television this week, Hayley’s aunt, Wendy Cheung, reiterated both families’ call for citizens to contact Morgenthau’s office and demand further action in the […]

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