Gowanus temporarily extra strange Kensinton Cyclist Slay
BY ROSE ADAMS
Environmental officials
planted a vibrant green dye
in the Gowanus Canal on
Thursday to test nearby
sewer lines, turning the putrid
canal into a neon emerald
shade that alarmed some
passersby.
“This is wild,” said
Janell Baptista, who posted
a video of the glowing Gowanus
from the Carroll Street
Bridge on his Twitter account
on Thursday afternoon.
“Just worried for the
people around this area who
live here!”
Edward Timber, a spokesman
for the Department of
Environmental Protection,
claimed that the dye was
harmless, and that it would
dissipate naturally. By Friday,
the canal had turned
a more subtle shade of turquoise,
and locals familiar
with the notoriously contaminated
Superfund site
remained unfazed by the odd
hue.
“I wouldn’t have noticed,”
said Sarah King, a
Bedford-Stuyvesant resident
who works near the canal.
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SEEING GREEN: The DEP poured a harmless green dye into sewers that
funnel into the Gowanus Canal by the Carroll Street Bridge on Thursday.
Janell Baptista
“I think I only notice if it
smells worse.”
Other residents said that
the filthy canal dons different
shades of green that
change with the seasons,
like foliage.
“In the summer, it’s sort
of a lime green,” said Sarah
Kovacs, a Gowanus resident
of 10 years, who added that
the river’s jade coloring was
actually a bit of an improvement.
“It looks clearer,” she
said.
Another Brooklyn resident
also praised the canal’s
new color, but noted that it
was far from natural-looking.
“It’s kinda pretty,” siad
Danny Walton. “But lots of
pretty things are terrible.”
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
An unlicensed driver
struck and killed a 10-year-old
boy in Kensington on Saturday
morning.
The driver of a 2002 Ford
SUV was turning left off Seton
Place onto Foster Avenue when
he struck Dalerjon Shahobiddinov
at 10:33 am, hitting the
boy as he cycled in the crosswalk,
according to police.
First responders rushed
the child to Maimonides Medical
Center, where he was pronounced
dead, according to
authorities.
Cops arrested the 29-yearold
motorist at the scene on
charges of failing to yield to
a bicyclist, operating a motor
vehicle without a license, and
failing to exercise due care, according
to authorities.
The tragic accident occurred
just steps from the
boy’s home on Foster Avenue
between Seton Place and E.
Fifth Street, according to police.
Shahobiddinov’s death
marks the 24th bicyclist killed
on city streets this year — far
outpacing the 10 cyclists slain
throughout all of 2018 — which
a spokesman for advocacy
group Transportation Alternatives
described as a “preventable
public health crisis”
in calling for additional streetsafety
measures.
“We press members of the
New York City Council, and
especially those in Brooklyn,
which has seen the most
bicyclist deaths this year, to
pass Speaker Corey Johnson’s
Streets Master Plan bill, which
would systematically address
streets across the city...that
have no accommodations for
people on bikes,” said Danny
Harris.
Harris also demanded
city to accelerate Mayor Bill
de Blasio’s ‘Green Wave’ proposal
, which would vastly expand
the city’s bike lane network.
Hizzoner took to Twitter
on Saturday evening to announce
safety changes to the
intersection where the boy
was struck.
“The Department of Transportation
is already making
changes to the intersection
by clearing parking spots to
improve visibility, assessing
the need for speed humps, and
reviewing if there were any
prior incidents at Foster Avenue
and Seton Place,” de Blasio
wrote .
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