Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Greenpoint

Fourth Witness Reports Seeing Police Chase Van Before Fatal Crash

By Graham T. Beck | Jun 5, 2009 | 3 Comments

A sidewalk tribute to Violetta Kryzak. (Image: Greenpoint Gazette) Another Greenpoint resident has come forward reporting to have seen a police car, in violation of NYPD policy, chasing the speeding white mini-van that took the life of Violetta Kryzak in April. Earlier this week, a reader who chose to be identified as ‘Alex B.’ emailed […]

NYPD Won’t Acknowledge Eyewitness Accounts in Death of Greenpoint Mom

By Graham T. Beck | May 29, 2009 | No Comments

Manhattan Avenue minutes after the deadly crash. (Image: Greenpoint Gazette) The NYPD continues to dispute eyewitness accounts of the events that preceded the vehicle-on-pedestrian collision that took the life of Violetta Kryzak, a 38-year-old mother and Greenpoint resident. Despite the statements of three separate eyewitnesses stationed several blocks from one another who claim that at […]

NYPD Denies High-Speed Chase in Death of Greenpoint Mom

By Graham T. Beck | May 21, 2009 | 6 Comments

Deputy Inspector Dennis Fulton at last Monday’s 94th Precinct Community Council meeting. The New York City Police Department denies that it was involved in a high-speed police chase preceding the vehicle-on-pedestrian collision that took the life of Violetta Kryzak, a 38-year-old Polish-American mother and Greenpoint resident, despite eyewitness accounts to the contrary first published by […]

Car Chases: Not Like What You See in the Movies

By Graham T. Beck | Apr 28, 2009 | 25 Comments

The aftermath of yesterday’s deadly car chase on Manhattan Avenue. Photo: Graham T. Beck Manhattan Avenue, the bustling main street in my usually quiet Brooklyn neighborhood, became a multi-block crime scene yesterday afternoon when a mini-van driver, reportedly fleeing police at high speed, struck and killed a woman near India Street before crashing into a […]

Teresa Toro is Back in the Saddle at Community Board 1

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 11, 2009 | 4 Comments

Here’s some good news: The Brooklyn Paper reports that livable streets advocate Teresa Toro has been reinstated as chair of the transportation committee at Brooklyn Community Board 1.

The Livable Streets Backlash Claims a Victim at Brooklyn’s CB1

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 24, 2008 | 25 Comments

Teresa Toro, one of New York City’s most productive livable streets activists in recent years, has been deposed as chair of Brooklyn Community Board 1’s Transportation Committee. CB1 covers the Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighborhoods of Brooklyn and has recently been embroiled in bitter fighting over the new bike lanes on Kent Avenue. CB1’s executive committee […]

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