maker argued that the state’s
$178-billion budget for 2021
— $87 billion of which is earmarked
for transportation
— could cover the expense.
Nearly 100 cities worldwide
already offer free public
transport, and the change
would incentivize New Yorkers
to ditch their cars in favor
of mass transit, he added.
“No one should go to jail
over $2.75, just like no one
goes to jail for skipping an EZ
Pass toll,” Treyger said.
In addition to opening up
the city’s transit system to
cash-strapped New Yorkers,
proponents argue that the
bill would eliminate the cost
of administering and enforcing
fares, allowing the MTA
to scrap its fi nicky Metro-
Card machines and OMNY
systems — which allow riders
to swipe through using
their phones and cost the city
$644 million to install.
The move would also render
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s
controversial scheme to
combat fare evasion by hiring
an additional 500 transit
cops — projected to cost
taxpayers an estimated $900
million over the next decade
— obsolete.
Hundreds of protesters
took to Grand Central Station
two weeks ago to decry
the increase in cops and the
$2.75 fare, which activists argue
will disproportionately
burden the city’s least fortunate.
BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY
DRX9000TM
COURIER L 22 IFE, FEBRUARY 14-20, 2020
“F–k your $2.75, no cops
in the MTA, free transit, no
harassment period and full
accessibility,” said a member
of Decolonize This Place,
the advocacy group that organized
the protest and has
long fought for the free transit,
in a video.
Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old outside of
the NYCHA Glenwood Houses on Tuesday night. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
BY JESSICA PARKS
Police are hunting the
gunman who fatally shot
a 22-year-old man outside
of the NYCHA Glenwood
Houses in Flatlands on Tuesday
night.
Offi cers responding to a
911 call found the victim suffering
a gunshot wound to
the chest on Ralph Avenue
between Glenwood and Farragut
roads at 6:10 pm, cops
said.
Emergency personnel
rushed the victim to
Brookdale Hospital where
he was pronounced dead, according
to authorities.
A Citizen user reported
having seen three men fl eeing
the scene, including two
men who hopped the gate
leading towards a nearby
garbage dump.
“One of the suspects
had a orange shirt limping
running and the other two
hopped the gate running towards
the garbage place,”
wroter the Citizen user fl ossysnitch.
Coney Island Councilman Mark Treyger wants to eliminate fares on city
buses and subways. Photo by Andrew Kist
Shooter guns down man at
NYCHA Glenwood Houses
FREE TRANSIT
Continued from Page 1
RELIEVES BACK PAIN
Surgeons perform an estimated 300,000 to 400,000
back surgeries every year. Annually, neurosurgeons
perform at least 100,000 operations for lumbar disc
disease alone, and orthopedic surgeons perform a
similar number. It is estimated that between 20% and
40% of these operations are unsuccessful.
That is why doctors from all over the country
are racing to acquire and get trained to operate the
DRX9000TM, an FDA approved device that is saving
thousands of Americans suffering from chronic back
pain from going under the knife.
Dr. Melinda Keller, who treats serious back
pain without surgery explains how the DRX9000TM
works... “Over 10 years ago, NASA began to notice
an unexpected result of space travel: Astronauts that
left with back pain would come back without it. After
investigated this now phenomenon here’s what they
found: During the anti-gravity state of the mission there
were decompressive forces on the intervertebral discs
and back pain was relieved. How? When you travel
through space, the effects of gravity are removed
and you are in a weightless state. All the pressure is
taken off your spine and discs. Even better — and
this is the key — a negative pressure is created. This
negative pressure actually sucks the herniated material
back into the disc and allows it to heal. Thanks to the
DRX9000TM, disc herniation sufferers finally have a
non-surgical solution.”
The main conditions the DRX9000TM has documented
success with are back pain, sciatica, herniated
and/or bulging discs (single or multiple), degenerative
disc disease, facet syndromes and a relapse or failure
following back surgery.
Anyone wishing to learn more about this new
FDA approved solution to back pain or to set up an
appointment for a free consultation call Dr. Keller’s
office at 718 234-6212 or visit Brooklyn Spine
Center, 5911 16th Ave., Brooklyn, New York 11204.
Brooklynspinecenter.com.
S f i d 3
Local doctor treats herniated and bulging discs,
sciatica, and serious lower back pain
WITHOUT BACK SURGERY
/Brooklynspinecenter.com