A bicyclist and six others were injured in a car accident that involved two cars at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn on Monday morning, according to reports. A 37-year-old man driving a Honda Pilot was heading northbound on Fourth Avenue when his car lost control and collided with a
A vacant building at 1438 Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant collapsed on Tuesday afternoon, leaving three passersby injured, according to reports. The four-story building was being prepped for demolition. It was not immediately clear why the building collapsed. A bicyclist and two other people were hurt, authorities said. “Three injuries from people in the vicinity
The man and woman who were killed by a Long Island Railroad (LIRR) train in Queens last week were identified by the police. Leanna Belcher and Booker Favors, both 29 years old from Queens, were fatally struck by the train near Hollis station at 2:45 a.m. last Thursday, police said. The train engineer hit
When New York construction workers enter a job site, the goal is to leave it as healthy as they entered it. But, a job site is a busy place with many dangers for the unwary or distracted. One common set of construction-related injuries that can beset workers is soft-tissue injuries. These are injuries to discs,
A West Islip woman was killed in a head-on collision with a truck at the intersection of Higbie Lane and Union Boulevard in West Islip, Long Island, on Tuesday morning, according to police. Julia Schweers, 19, a graduate of St. John the Baptist High School, was fatally injured when her 2011 Toyota Camry collided
A pedestrian was hospitalized after being struck by a double-decker tour bus in Greenwich Village on Friday. Devan Snipner, 50, was crossing the street on Sixth Avenue and West 4th Street when the City Sightseeing New York bus struck him as it turned onto Sixth Avenue, according to reports. Witnesses said that the bus’
A mother and her young daughter were killed, and at least four others were injured, after a two-car crash in Queens last week. Susana Ha, 42, and her daughter, Angelica Ung, 10, were killed in a collision between their 2005 Toyota Camry and a white 2006 Ford Explorer on 210th Street in Bayside around
Two weeks ago, Glenn Dolan of Morgan Levine Dolan secured a $2,250,000.00 settlement on behalf of a non-union laborer who sustained permanent injuries to his neck, back and knees at a Jamaica Avenue construction site in Queens. The worker was standing on a pile of castings on the back of a dump truck, rigging the
Marcia Arthurs, 51, was struck and killed by an out-of-control car at Pennsylvania Avenue and Cozine Avenue in East New York on Wednesday, according to reports. The driver, a 29-year-old woman who has not been identified by name, was heading southbound on Pennsylvania Avenue in her Toyota sedan when she lost control of the
Lighting is seldom at the top of anyone’s mind when New Yorkers drive into a parking lot. Often their focus is on looking for an available parking spot. But how well lit the parking lot is can be important. Consider a few benefits of proper lighting. Lighting makes it easier to walk safely from one
