Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Cy Vance

Reckless Drivers Aren’t Waiting for Vance Vehicular Crime Reforms

By Brad Aaron | Jun 17, 2010 | 2 Comments

Two pedestrians were injured on the same Upper West Side block on Monday. Photo: Westside Indy Traffic safety advocates were heartened last month by news that Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance will make good on his campaign promise to devote more resources to investigating acts of vehicular violence. Vance has also pledged to get behind […]

Manhattan DA Cy Vance Unveils Strategy to Expand Traffic Safety Resources

By Ben Fried | May 27, 2010 | 7 Comments

During last year’s campaign for Manhattan District Attorney, Cy Vance came out with a broad traffic safety platform, promising to beef up investigations into deaths caused by drivers. Many of those commitments turned into official policy today, as Vance announced a significant expansion of the DA’s vehicular crimes unit. Vance also pledged to support state […]

DA Begins Inquiry Into NYPD-Involved Pedestrian Fatality

By Brad Aaron | Feb 5, 2010 | 2 Comments

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s office is beginning an inquiry into the collision that killed Karen Schmeer last Friday, and expects to review all circumstances leading up the crash, according to a spokesperson. Witnesses cited by the Daily News say cops pursued three men suspected of petty theft at an Upper West Side pharmacy before […]

DA Offers Plea to Road Rager Gonzalez

By Ben Fried | Jan 13, 2010 | 7 Comments

The DA’s office has not contacted the witness who took this photograph of Gus Gonzalez last May. At a hearing in criminal court on Monday, Manhattan prosecutors offered a plea deal to Gus Gonzalez, the driver who assaulted cyclist Ray Bengen in the Ninth Avenue bike lane last May. Gonzalez had been charged with third […]

Vance “Reviewing” Safir Hit-and-Run, Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths

By Brad Aaron | Jan 11, 2010 | 14 Comments

The office of Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance is looking into last Friday’s Upper East Side hit-and-run involving former NYPD Commissioner Howard Safir and pedestrian Joanne Valarezo, as well as two recent incidents in which a pedestrian and cyclist were killed. Howard Safir and Joanne Valarezo have very different versions of what happened on Third […]

NYPD on Fatal Delancey Street Crash: “Looks Like It Was Just an Accident”

By Ben Fried | Jan 7, 2010 | 15 Comments

Photo: CS Muncy/Flickr via Gothamist. The police department confirmed this morning that no criminal charges have been filed against the bus driver who struck and killed a woman riding a bike on Delancey Street Tuesday afternoon. (The police have not released the identity of the victim, since the family hasn’t been notified yet.) "I don’t […]

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