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Sunday, January 19, 2014

A driver crashed along a busy commercial strip of the Upper East Side Monday, hurtling onto the sidewalk and shattering the front window of a business on Second Avenue.

The FDNY said a motorist lost control of his vehicle near 79th Street and Second Avenue at about 2 p.m. and crashed into the storefront window of Bond New York, a real estate office.

Two passengers in the vehicle had minor injuries, and the driver was taken to New York Hospital.

It's not clear how the driver lost control of the car. No charges have been filed.

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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Police say an MTA bus struck and killed a 45-year-old bicyclist in Manhattan early Sunday.

The BX15 hit Pedro Santiago near the corner of West 125th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem at around 1:30 a.m., according to officials.

Santiago was lodged underneath the front of the bus and was pronounced dead after being taken to the hospital.

Police say the bus driver has not been charged but an investigation into the accident is ongoing.

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Saturday, January 18, 2014

A 26-year-old woman was killed after she was hit by an ambulance while crossing a street in Manhattan and subsequently struck by another car, authorities said. According to police, Samantha Lee was attempting to cross West 96th Street between Broadway and West End Avenue early Sunday morning when she was clipped by the driver's side mirror of the ambulance, causing her to fall facedown in the street and be struck by another car. Lee, who lived nearby, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The driver of the ambulance and the other car both remained at the scene.

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

A SUV driver died after his vehicle crashed into a city bus in midtown, sending pedestrians near Bryant Park running for cover, authorities said.

The male driver suffered a heart attack before slamming into an MTA bus and flipping over at 6th Ave. and W. 41st St., according to police.

The black SUV nearly jumped the curb at about 3:55 p.m. before finally coming to a stop just feet from the popular park's edge where shocked pedestrians packed the area to get a look.

An SUV crash on 6th Ave The driver was pronounced dead after suffering a heart attack.

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Saturday, December 21, 2013
A 49-year-old man was hit and killed as he tried to cross the Major Deegan Expy. near Yankee Stadium early Sunday morning, police said. Darnell Carter, a native of Melrose, was hit as he tried to cross the divider from the northbound lane to the southbound lane near exit 5 at 12:27 a.m., police said. Carter was hit by a Toyota Rav 4 that was heading South on the busy highway. The driver stayed on scene and there was no apparent criminality, police said.
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
A 76-year-old man was fatally hit by two vehicles as he crossed a Washington Heights street Friday evening, cops said. Antonio Escanio was crossing Amsterdam Ave. near his apartment inside the Dunwell Plaza senior home at 1920 Amsterdam Ave. at 5:51 p.m. when he was struck by a white 2009 Toyota SUV traveling south on Amsterdam. The impact sent Escanio into the northbound lane, where a 2012 Chevy Malibu hit him. He was rushed to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, where he died. Both drivers stayed at scene.
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

A man working on an elevator in a Park Avenue building fell to his death Wednesday, according to a police source.

The man, believed to be a building super or maintenance worker, was found in the elevator shaft at 331 Park Avenue South.

The death is not considered suspicious but police are still investigating.

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Thursday, November 28, 2013
A person was killed by a Brooklyn-bound L train in Canarsie on Friday night, according to a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The person wound up on the tracks and was crushed underneath the train as it rumbled into the station at E. 105th St. in Canarsie shortly after 6:30 p.m., the spokeswoman said. Police are investigating how the person came to be on the tracks.
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Sunday, November 24, 2013
A man was arrested for striking and killing a 65-year-old pedestrian in Harlem Sunday morning, police said. Officials said the man, Prince Julien, 23, struck Willie Zachary while he was trying to cross St. Nicholas Avenue between 131st and 132nd streets at around 10 a.m. Zachary was pronounced dead at the scene. Julien has been charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving while impaired by alcohol, police said. Information on a lawyer for Julien was not immediately available.