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Thursday’s Headlines: Exclusive News Edition

By Eve Kessler | Mar 24, 2022 | No Comments

The big story yesterday was the hiring of Bostonian Richard Davey as the first permanent president of New York City Transit since disgraced former Gov. Cuomo ran Andy Byford out of town. Plus other news.

So called "free parking" exacts a high toll on our streets, air and the taxpayer. Photo: Chris Murphy/Flickr

OPINION: The Cost of ‘Free’ Parking is Dirty Streets and Foul Air

By Richard Robbins | Mar 21, 2022 | No Comments

Our policy of forcing cars to move for street cleaning has many hidden costs, most notably the environmental effects of trading clean streets for polluted air.

About That Safety Crackdown: NYPD Conducts Yet Another Tiny Enforcement Push

By Gersh Kuntzman | Mar 21, 2022 | No Comments

Mayor Adams's sole safe streets announcement so far in his administration — a promise to protect pedestrians with a "relentless" effort by the NYPD — is just the same old fake crackdown.

Two More Queens Pedestrians are Killed By Drivers (Neither of Whom Has Been Charged)

By Gersh Kuntzman | Mar 16, 2022 | No Comments

A 75-year-old woman was backed over on Tuesday night and a Flushing senior died of wounds incurred last week on Northern Boulevard.

Pete Alonso miraculously escaped injury in a brutal car crash in Florida (lower left) and the Mets offered only prayers (top left). Main photo: David B. King via Flickr

Media Reminds Us of Pete Alonso’s Great Stats — But Not the Deadly Stats of Road Violence

By Dave Colon | Mar 14, 2022 | No Comments

In Hillsborough County, there were 28,014 crashes in 2021, resulting in 18,965 injuries and 271 deaths — a staggeringly high number. But no one reported that.

The intersection has not been properly daylighted. Photo: Google

Another Pedestrian — This Time a Kid — is Badly Wounded by a Driver in Bloody Year

By Gersh Kuntzman | Mar 11, 2022 | No Comments

A 12-year-old girl was run down and critically injured by the driver of a luxury sedan on Thursday — and the driver was not charged, police said.

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