September 15, 2019 Your Neighborhood — Your News®
Aug. 23-22, 2019
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A 26 year old sustained serious injuries after colliding with a silver Nissan Rogue at the intersection of Atlantic and Vanderbilt avenues in Prospect Heights on
Thursday. Paul Martinka
DOUBLE WHAMMY
Cyclists ram into two cars on same day in P’ Hghts and Fort Greene
BY COLIN MIXSON
Two cyclists suffered non-lifethreatening
injuries after
smashing into two different
cars in Prospect Heights and
Fort Greene on Thursday.
Brian Douglas, a 26-yearold
delivery man for Uber
Eats, was riding his bicycle
heading north along Vanderbilt
Avenue at 4 p.m. on Sept.
5, when he struck a woman’s
silver sedan as she crossed the
roadway heading east along
Atlantic Avenue, according to
the driver, who only gave her
name as Ms. Ava.
Paramedics rushed to treat
Douglas, who was unable to
lift his head at the scene, and
rushed him to a nearby hospital
for treatment.
The driver of the sedan
claimed she had a green light
when Douglas struck her vehicle,
leaving a dent near the
front passenger-side wheel
with his bike.
Douglas declined to comment
when reached via phone,
saying “I can’t talk, I’m on
meds.”
A friend of Douglas, who
gave his name as Nigel, said
the cyclist moved to New York
Coney
cleaners
defy Parks
BY ROSE ADAMS
A group of vigilante do-gooders
strong armed the Parks Department
into “allowing” them
to clean up used syringes,
glass shards, and other debris
strewn along Coney Island
Creek Park last Sunday, after
the agency wanted to charge
them a permit fee for the favor.
“You need a permit to clean
the beach!” riled Gravesend
resident Steven Patzer, 22, who
helped spearhead the cleanup
effort. “How can a beach in
Brooklyn look like this?”
Patzer said he noticed the
seaside park’s sorry state
while strolling with pal Andrew
Windsor, 22, along its
sandy shores between Seagate
Avenue and W. 33rd Street in
August.
At first, the duo tried to
get the city to pitch in, but a
rep for the Parks Department
told them it didn’t have the resources
to fund a cleanup until
October.
And when the young men offered
to pull together their own
garbage-picking team, Parks
officials said they would have
to pay $45 and leave the park to
fester with syringes for 30 days
while waiting for a permit authorizing
the gathering of 20
people or more!
“I tried to convince them
that this looks dangerous,”
Windsor said, citing the large
number of syringes on the
sand.
But the pair obstinately
reached out to Deputy Public
Advocate Kashif Hussain, who
brow beat the Parks Department
into waiving the permit
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