We're just back from the Williamsburg Bridge, where a vehicle overturned on the eastbound roadway this afternoon, snarling rush hour traffic. Grand Street, Delancey, Norfolk and Clinton are all a mess. The outer lanes reopened a short time ago...
There are numerous reports of an overturned truck on the Williamsburg side of the Williamsburg Bridge. The driver was apparently not hurt but the accident has blocked all of the westbound lanes, causing a major traffic backup just as...
A 12-year old girl was killed on Delancey Street this afternoon, after being struck by a Toyota Sienna minivan. It happened around 3:30 p.m. as the Castle Middle School student was heading north on Clinton Street with a group...
There are multiple news reports this afternoon about an incident that occurred on the Williamsburg Bridge near Pitt Street. Police are saying a 34-year old woman survived a fall from the bridge, shortly before 3 p.m. today. Damien Acevedo...
Closing the loop on a story we first brought you last June, we took a walk across Delancey Street (all 250 feet of it) this week to have a look at the new concrete barriers the city has installed to direct...
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Remember that dramatic acrobatic stunt on the Williamsburg Bridge this past summer? Seanna Sharpe and magician Thomas "Savage" Skinner descended from a height of 300 feet, attracting a big crowd, before being arrested. At the time we...
Photographer and Lo-Down reader Brittany Somerset sent along some photos of an accident on Delancey Street at the Williamsburg Bridge that occurred around 10:30 this morning. The cars involved apparently included an unmarked NYPD vehicle, according to police scanner reports....
There's been a lot of talk in the last couple of weeks about the new concrete barrier being built at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge. Gothamist was first to publish this image from the Department of Transportation, showing...
The Brooklyn Paper reports a robber on a bicycle, brandishing a gun, stole a woman's purse on the Williamsburg bike path this past Sunday. It happened on the Brooklyn end of the bridge, shortly after midnight.
The suspect is reported...
The mayor's office is out with new statistics on bike ridership in New York City. According to the Department of Transportation, biking was up this past spring 14%, compared to the spring of 2010.
The statistics are based on...
