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August 18, 2019
Cop warning on hazardous corners
Bayside’s 111th Precinct names neighborhood’s most dangerous intersections
Clash over
Ridgewood
bus lanes
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Queens’ apartment sales drop
Bike-riding burglar
hits S. Ozone Park
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BY JENNA BAGCAL
Pedestrians should exercise
serious caution when crossing
three Bayside incident-prone
intersections, warns the 111th
Precinct.
The Bayside-based precinct
recently reported the three
intersections with the most
pedestrian crashes in three
years. The intersections at
Horace Harding Expressway and
Springfield Boulevard, Francis
Lewis Boulevard and Northern
Boulevard and Bell Boulevard
and Northern Boulevard had
a total of 27 crashes, according
to police.
“Worst 3 intersections for
pedestrian crashes in past 3
years in @NYPD111Pct: 1. Horace
Harding & Springfield-11 2.
Francis Lewis & Northern-9 3.
Bell Blvd & Northern Blvd-7 Top
contributing factor? Failure to
yield right-of-way,” the precinct
tweeted on Aug. 8.
Most times, cops said, drivers
hit pedestrians due to driver’s
failure to yield the right-ofway.
According to New York
state traffic law, drivers are
required to yield for pedestrians
who legally use marked and
unmarked crosswalks.
Back in June, a driver hit
two elderly pedestrians in the
crosswalk at Horace Harding
Expressway and Springfield
Boulevard in Bayside. The 41-
year-old vehicle operator made a
left turn into the intersection and
struck a 71-year-old woman and
82-year-old man, who sustained
trauma to their heads and bodies.
According to Vision Zero data,
failure to yield to a pedestrian
was among the top six violations
UPDATED EVERY DAY AT QNS.BY MARK HALLUM
Why did they bother reaching
out to Ridgewood?
That’s the question
Councilman Robert Holden
asked of city Transportation
Commissioner Polly Trottenberg
in a letter condemning the
Department of Transportation
(DOT) for moving ahead with
a proposed bus lane on Fresh
Pond Road in Ridgewood with
purportedly little incorporation
of the community’s input.
Holden charged that
recommendations from the
community to improve the plan
were virtually ignored, and that
the DOT’s community outreach
on the plan was little more than
“window dressing.”
Trottenberg acknowledge
a list of concerns from Holden
in an Aug. 7 letter that argued
that the agency has taken some
recommendations into account
such as the hours of the bus lane.
“While I realize that you still
have ongoing questions, I would
like to report that we have heard
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
Cops are looking for a bike-riding burglar
who broke into a South Ozone Park home
and took off with cash and personal items.
According to police, at 10 p.m. on Aug.
BY MAX PARROTT
Despite the flurry of
real estate activity in
Long Island City amid the
fallout from the Amazon
HQ2 debacle, a new city
comptroller’s report
shows that the northwest
region did not make up for
the borough as a whole.
Queens apartment sales
overall are in a slump.
Apartment sales in the
“World’s Borough” fell 11.7
percent from 3,421 to 3,022
in the second quarter of
2019. Real estate company
Douglas Elliman also
reported that the number
of one- to three-family
homes sold in Queens fell
by 9.4 percent in 2019, on a
year-over-year basis.
While the volume of real
A rendering of a tower rising in Long estate sales in Manhattan
Island City. File photo
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