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Save Beth Israel coalition holds ‘victory march’ after recent wins
BY PHYLLIS ECKHAUS | Chanting “Save Our Community Hospital!” activists with the Campaign to Save Beth Israel and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary braved...
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Police arrest suspect in brutal sucker-punch of young woman in Greenwich Village
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A 6th Precinct detective recently arrested a man accused of randomly punching a young woman in Greenwich Village — so hard...
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‘Blank ballot’ protest scores 15% in NYC in Dem presidential primary
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Showing the ongoing divide among Democrats over the Israel-Gaza conflict, 15 percent of the party's New York City voters submitted...
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Jose Pepe Flores, Loisaida raconteur and record collector, realizes his dream
BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK | For a number of years, Jose Pepe Flores, ethnomusicologist and record collector extraordinaire, dreamed about creating a Puerto Rican cultural center...
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Erik Bottcher unveils ‘fang-tastic’ rat-control plan
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | One of Erik Bottcher's top issues is sanitation, so perhaps it's not so surprising that he is proposing a groundbreaking...
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Posts tagged as “hit-and-runs”

Lawmakers: Up penalties for e-scooter hit-and-runs

State Senator Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal have introduced legislation to make hit-and-runs with an electric scooter consistent with car hit-and-runs. At right is an electric scooter similar to the one that fatally struck actress Linda Banes. (Courtesy Brad Hoylman's office)

Lawmakers: Up penalties for e-scooter hit-and-runs

June 25, 2021

Hit-and-run e-scooter riders should be hit with stiffer penalties, two state lawmakers say. State Senator Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, at a press conference…