A 12-year-old girl suffered a brain hemorrhage and other injuries after being hit by a black Nissan while crossing the street to school in South Ozone Park, Queens. Nisha Chowdhry and her friend had been dropped off by Nisha's father in the middle of Rockaway Boulevard. The two girls decided to cross in the middle of the street, managing to pass after a bus, but both were hit by the Nissan. Surveillance video shows the......

Northside Car Service, the dominant livery cab company in Williamsburg, has become the target of a boycott after an accident with a cyclist last week. In a widely circulated email, a friend of the unidentified cyclist—who himself called for a boycott in a Gothamist comment Friday—says that on September 10th the driver made an “irrationally fast turn” from Kent onto North Seventh, forcing the cyclist to "slam on the brakes, flip completely over the handlebars,......

Late last night, livery cab driver Winston Frank was killed in a hit-and-run that police believe was preceded by a robbery. Frank, apparently an unlicensed driver, had picked up a fare in Ozone Park. While driving, police think he argued with female passenger in the front seat--and the woman pushed him out of the car. Halfway out of the car by his seat belt, Frank was then struck by a passing car; a witness told......

A 41-year-old man was arrested in a hit-and-run incident that has left a 9-year-old girl in a coma. Saturday night, Nacirema Brown had run into Rockaway Avenue when a tan Nissan Maxima hit her. Witnesses told the girl's mother the driver got out of the car to yell, "You stupid little bitch!" before driving away. Police, who found the car on Park Place near Eastern Parkway, charged the suspect with leaving the scene of an......

Polie say an 11-year-old boy was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver early this morning in Brooklyn. According to the AP, the incident occurred on East 42nd Street in Flatbush and police "determined that the boy, Rondell Grant Jr., had been hit by one of three cars that fled the scene." The boy was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital; police are continuing their investigation. Update: The police reportedly arrested a 19-year-old with leaving the......

Yesterday afternoon, an 88-year-old man crossing Court Street in downtown Brooklyn was hit by a car. The man was on the car's hood/windshield and witnesses told police the driver swerved for a block to shake the victim off. One witness told the Daily News, "Half his body was inside the car and the other half was hanging outside the passenger seat... [The driver] didn't show no remorse. He was just trying to get rid of......

A 40-year-old woman was fatally struck and dragged by a red Mercedes that hit her while she was crossing Brighton Beach Avenue yesterday afternoon. The car's driver, 27-year-old Ronald Suriano, was arrested for drug possession (cops found drugs in his car). According to the Daily News, witnesses saw the woman's body fly up into the air. The car's windshield was, per WABC 7, "crushed in by the impact." One witness said, "Me and my wife......

A family walking along the side of the road in Queens was struck by a car that witnesses claimed was doing 90 m.p.h. After plowing into the family, which included an infant, the driver continued on, perhaps neglecting to notice the baby that was hurled into the air and a the male friend of the mother who was killed. Police were called to the scene of the family that was sundered along the Sunrise Highway.......

The drunk driver who fatally struck a 24-year-old woman on East 4th and Bowery--and kept driving--last year has pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter. Twenty-one-year-old Tenzing Bhutia, a senior at Baruch, will serve a two-year sentence starting in June for killing Julia Thomson (pictured) with his father's Mercedes last October. Thomson, a Scottish transplant who was living in the East Village, had been showing a friend the town when she was hit around 4 a.m. Witnesses......

Nine-year-old Akeem Suluki was thrown across the road when a car hit him around 3:30 p.m. He had been leaving his after school program at PS 262 in Bedford Stuyvesant, and the crossing guard tried to pull him out of the Dodge Charger's way but couldn't save him. Suluki was taken to Kings County Hospital Center, after suffering a collapse lung, bleeding to the brain, and more (news reports said he was in a......

A 91-year-old woman crossing East Gun Hill Road at DeKalb yesterday morning was hit by a tractor-trailer. Anna Rogovin had been walking to the senior center when she was hit and her legs crushed. It is also possible that a second vehicle hit her. Rogovin was comforted by witnesses; one said another woman held her until the ambulance came, "She had [Rogovin's] head in her lap. Her legs were smashed...Everybody was screaming and crying in......

The headline for the above-the-fold NY Times story about presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain, For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk, doesn't quite prepare readers for the juicy insinuations waiting for them in the second paragraph. The first sentence notes that during McCain's 2000 presidential campaign advisers were worried because... A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate......

Some more details have emerged about the fatal hit-and-run that killed a Brooklyn resident in lower Manhattan Thursday night. Florence Cioffi was fatally struck by George Anderson's Mercedes SUV on Water Street and Old Slip. Anderson had originally fled the scene but later returned, where he was arrested and charged with vehicular manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and leaving the scene of an accident. Anderson, who runs a technology firm in the Financial District, had gone......

Two hit and run drivers were arrested late this week; one through the actions of a horrified but brave bystander and the other through a successful effort by the Brooklyn Accident Investigation squad. Cops arrived at Sergey Satyr's Mill Basin home Thursday to arrest the 20-year-old for the hit-and-run death of 71-year-old Grace Smith of Sheepshead Bay. The Brooklyn Accident Investigation squad used debris from Satyr's Nissan and a partial license plate number to track......

The driver who ran over cab driver Mohamed Elwaleed after an early Tuesday morning argument was arrested in Pennsylvania yesterday. Luis Flores, 24, told authorities he didn't mean to kill the cab driver, and authorities believe him. Flores, while driving his cousin's Nissan Altima, had apparently gotten into an accident with Elwaleed, a 44-year-old Sudanese immigrant. Elwaleed followed Flores for a few blocks, in hopes of trading insurance information. At Madison Avenue and East 65th......

The police are still looking for the driver who drove a Nissan Altima into 44-year-old taxi driver Mohamed Elwaleed yesterday. Elwaleed was pinned under the car and died, and the driver and his female passenger fled the intersection at Madison Avenue and East 65th Street on the Upper East Side. A witness who was walking his dog at the time told the Post that the cab and Nissan got into an accident near Central Park,......

A hit-and-run driver was struck by another vehicle minutes after he struck another car and left the scene of the first accident. 21-year-old Mark Durfee was driving his SUV on Conklin St. when his Explorer rear-ended a Nissan shortly after midnight Saturday. The driver of the Nissan wasn't hurt, but Durfee sped off. Later, Durfee left his car on Route 110 and attempted to cross the highway on foot. At that point, a red Dodge......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a pedestrian struck in a hit and run at Knickerbocker and Gates Aves. in Brooklyn, a wall collapse at Cromwell Ave. in the Bronx, and an escaped prisoner at 107th Ave. and 131st St. in Queens. Firefighters had to rescue a Queens cemetery worker who was buried up to his waist after a cave-in occurred in a 20-foot-deep pit where he was working. The cave-in broke the man's leg......

On Gothamist Contribute, someone wrote about an incident that occurred at 6th Avenue and 10th Street in Manhattan:I went running at 5:15 and there were cops and detectives all over the corner by Ansonia pharmacy. The whole area was taped off. I asked a bodega owner and he said a guy jumped from a building. When the pharmacy opened I went in and asked and she said she thought it was a hit and run.......

Yesterday, a five people were injured on Queens Boulevard at 47th Street when a Jeep Cherokee slammed into a Honda. The Jeep, which witnesses describe as trying to beat a red light, lost control and hit the Honda. The Honda, which had been making a turn onto Queens Boulevard, was crushed from the impact and then "plowed up onto the crowded sidewalk, pinning a 16-year-old boy against a lamppost." Both legs of the boy, Tonpo......

Long Island resident Christopher Savini was charged with leaving the scene of an accident after he fled from yesterday morning's hit and run on the Grand Central Parkway that killed a man and injured a woman. Christian Melendez had crashed, while possibly speeding, into a guardrail (his Honda was not initially hit, as previously reported). The Daily News reports that Melendez's car was "perpendicular to the road and blocking two westbound lanes," and he and......

Today, there's a fascinating Op-Ed by Robert Sullivan about the state of NYC streets. Titled, "The City That Never Walks," Sullivan describes how NYC has "lost [its] golden pedestrian touch." ...yet, here in New York, we even have the debate over bicycle traffic backwards. We focus on drivers’ complaints about the bicycle commuter who races through red lights, rather than on the concerns of the mother biking her child around organic-food delivery trucks that......

All too often we write about hit and run incidents, but this past weekend, blogger, friend of Gothamist and many others, John Carney, was hit at 5:30am in the Lower East Side. The intersection is one we've crossed often, Allen and Delancey. From dpstyles Flickr:"The whole thing happened late Saturday night (around 5:30am???) down on Delancey + Allen...walking west crossing Allen and John got clipped out of nowhere as a car took the corner......

Here is part two of our semi-chronological look back at the top stories this past year (here is part one): Queens Blackout The Blackout of 2003, as irritating as it was, happened to the whole city, could be blamed on other states and didn't last too long. When parts of Queens lost power in July, Con Ed wrote it off as an isolated event affecting only a few thousands customers. But as Queens spent days......

Earlier this week, we reported that police had ID'd a victim of a fatal hit-and-run as Williamsburg resident Josh Crouch. And then we noticed that one commenter, Kris, had been with Josh a few hours before his death and noted that he was ID-less because he had left it at home. Another commenter urged Kris to contact the police, which she did:I did contact the police and they forwarded to me crimestoppers, who told me......

- New, slightly stricter, rules for oversize street advertecture went into effect yesterday. - Twenty years after the "Preppy Killer," Dorrian's patrons drink on. - An NYU econ professor thinks we are heading towards a nasty recession in the next year. - A Westchester man was killed and his wife critically injured in a hit and run in Manhattan last night. Police say the car had Florida plates and the license number T062HN. -......

- Really? NYU banned showing those controversial Danish cartoons at a campus talk called "Free Speech and the Danish Cartoons?" - Four teens are being charged in that NYU hit and run. - The Post and one spicy divorce lawyer go after the restaurant they like to call "Toxic on the Green." - Thinking about how to use, and not use, the McCarren Pool. - Shockingly,Eliot Spitzer doesn't think Pataki shows "leadership." And? -......

A woman was arrested after she stole a flatbed truck and then led the police on a chase throughout downtown Manhattan. When a sanitation truck called the police about a hit and run at 3AM, police went into pursuit mode for 30 minutes, chasing the runaway flatbed truck on "West Street through the streets of Greenwich Village and back south on Greenwich Street until [the driver] was finally stopped at the corner of State and......

- Check out the on-the-scene photographs of the grilled cheese sandwich eating contest from yesterday in Times Square - The ACS removes a child with a broken leg from his parents - we have a feeling there will be a number of "just in case" measures over the next couple weeks - The floodgates have opened on September 11 air quality lawsuits: A federal judge ruled the EPA "misled" the public about the World Trade......

Worrying about being hit by a car while walking is one thing, and worrying about being hit by a drunk driver is another. Diana Tafur was ejected from a minivan taxi when it was hit by drunk driver in a BMW. The BMW driver, Harzem Sendogan, ran a red light on East 84th Street at First Avenue, and Tafur was "ejected from her seat in the back of the van through a side window and......