The Sean Bell trial progresses, with recent attention falling on a bruise below the right knee of Detective Gescard F. Isnora. It was allegedly sustained when Isnora was struck by the car driven by Sean Bell. Isnora claims he leaped out of the way to avoid more serious injury. Bell then reportedly rammed his car into an unmarked police van, then a wall, and then the van again, where it came to a stop. He......

On November 25, 2006, groom-to-be Sean Bell and his friends were leaving the Kalua nightclub in Queens when undercover police confronted them. In the confusion that ensued (the police thinking the men were armed or were going to the car to retrieve a gun, uncertainty over whether the police identified themselves leading Bell and his friends to think they were being carjacked) five undercover cops fired 50 times at Bell's car. His friends Joseph......

The NY Post reveals what many people were wondering in the Sean Bell shooting: Who fired the shots that actually killed Bell and hit his friends Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield. It turns out Detective Michael Oliver fired the shots. Oliver fired the most shots, 31, of the detectives and was charged with first-degree and second-degree manslaughter last week. The other detective charged with manslaughter, Gescard Isnora, fired 11 times, but didn't hit anything. However,......

Yesterday, Democracy Now.org showed footage taken from the Air Train station near the club in Jamaica, Queens where Sean Bell and his two friends were shot by police. And the video (link to download MP3) is bananas. One video shows a bullet coming into the station and barely missing a man. Another video shows two Port Authority police officers ducking from the bullets and running. The Daily News' Juan Gonzalez, who co-hosts Democracy Now, explained......

An organizations representing taxi drivers is asking the Taxi and Limousine Commission to create a Manhattan-JFK $45 flat rate. Much like the JFK-to-Manhattan flat rate, cabbies are looking to make sure they get airport business, with the main concern being that livery drivers tend to rip off tourists at big hotels. Plus, the group argues that many people heading to JFK are confused, as they think there is an existing $45 rate already. Currently, if......

Ooh, Circle Line Cruises is looking to New York Region > New Ferry Line to La Guardia Is to Begin Service by Midyear" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/08/nyregion/08boat.html">start high-speed ferry service between Manhattan and LaGuardia by midyear, according to the NY Times. Details: Every half hour and for $25, the ferry will take you between Pier 11 in Wall Street and near the Marine Air Terminal in just 30 minutes. There's been a tortured history of trying to establish......

Hey, Lower Manhattan, Governor Pataki wants to give you a direct rail link to JFK Airport. Reports say that Governor Pataki will probably announce that officials are looking to dig a tunnel under the East River for the project, although there is the possibility of using the Montague Street subway tunnel, which has the M, N and R right now. The Times puts the cost of the project at $5-5.5 billion, with tunnel digging an......

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Huzzah, the Air Train at JFK opened yesterday. Mayor Bloomberg said it was "great," even though the ride was so bumpy that he lost his balance (is he sure Pataki didn't push him). And as Gothamist expected, the AirTrain Challenge was undertaken. The Challenge is figuring out which is the best way to get to JFK Airport: By taxi or subway/Air Train or LIRR/Air Train. The NY Times' verdict after their unscientific experiement: LIRR to......

New York finally gets its air train but it's not all it's cracked up to be: To take the Air Train, you need to take the subway, bus or LIRR to Jamaica or Howard Beach, and then you can take the Air Train to Kennedy. Ack. According to the brochure, taking the Air Train from Penn Station in Manhattan to Kennedy (E Train, then Air Train) will take you about 60 minutes and set you......

The Air Train that will connect from the LIRR and different subways to Kennedy Airport may be open by the end of the year. Originally scheduled to open last year, a fatal train crash during a test run in September 2002 delayed the project; the crash was apparently due to poor communication and excessive speeds. Over $2 billiion has been pumped into this project, which hopes to make traveling to JFK easier. NJ Transit's Newark......