"Around 8:21 a.m. on Tuesday, cops arrested Gary Levinson, 62, for criminally negligent homicide and reckless driving. That was a pretty quick resolution to the early November crash in which cops say Levinson killed pedestrian Valerie Schoeck, 27, by driving a commercial van the wrong way on Morton Street in the West Village."
"After a record-setting run of 24 days, Streetsblog is resetting its livable streets "Mamdani-O-Meter" back to zero. This decision came on Wednesday after a top FDNY official testified at a Council hearing that the agency opposes protected bike lanes. It was the second time in as many days that a key official in a uniformed agency openly flouted the mayor's supposed agenda."
"NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch called for criminal charges against snowball throwers in Washington Square Park just hours after her boss downplayed the incident as a playful snowball fight. Streetsblog encourages Mamdani to reassert control of his subordinates, lest they hijack his agenda and feed more chum to the bipartisan outrage machine."
A commercial van driver was arrested for criminally negligent homicide and reckless driving after killing a pedestrian on Morton Street in the West Village. Simultaneously, NYPD arrested a protester during a confrontation in Clinton Hill where demonstrators blocked a vehicle transporting ICE agents. These incidents occurred amid broader tensions between city officials and the mayor's agenda, as an FDNY official testified against protected bike lanes and the NYPD commissioner called for criminal charges against snowball throwers, contradicting the mayor's characterization of the incident as playful.
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