Officials of the Department of Transportation and local elected officials came to the Lower East Side this afternoon to celebrate the installation of a new crosswalk and signal on Clinton Street, between East Broadway and Grand streets.
Last year, the...
The city's Department of Transportation announced today's it's adding a mid-block crosswalk and signal on Clinton Street between East Broadway and Grand Street.
Residents have complained about safety in the area for years. Cars come racing up Grand Street on...
There's some sad news to report today about the victim of an MTA bus crash earlier this week. Police confirm that a 64-year-old man died as a result of his injuries following a collision at the intersection of Madison...
Here's a followup on Friday's story regarding the dump truck accident near the Manhattan Bridge that took the life of a pedestrian.
The driver, 24-year-old Maykel Felix-Tejada of Paterson, New Jersey, was arrested and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation. He was operating the...
In 2014, a series of traffic accidents took the lives of four pedestrians on the Lower East Side and Chinatown. Following the October death of 90-year-old Sau Ying Lee on Canal Street, City Council member Margaret Chin called on the...
Community Board 3 last night asked the city to look at making safety improvements at several Lower East Side intersections. The resolution approved at their monthly board meeting was prompted by a campaign from local residents concerned about pedestrian...
Lots of people complain about things they'd like to see changed in their neighborhood, but not many of them actually do something about it. Lower East Side resident William Mojica is an exception. On Friday it may have been...
On October 14, Michael Cheung's 90-year-old mother was struck and killed as she tried to cross Canal Street. Sau Ying Lee, who lived in the nearby Confucius Plaza housing complex, had almost made it across the intersection at Elizabeth...
Here's more on the fatal traffic accident yesterday morning on Canal Street. A woman believed to be in her 70's was struck by the driver of an SUV, as she tried to cross at Elizabeth Street. A witness told...
