Queens Boulevard, dubbed the "Boulevard of Death," was the scene of yet another fatal accident yesterday. This time, a cement truck hit a woman in her 60s as she was crossing the street towards the Queens Center Mall, scattering the contents of the victim's purse into the street. Witnesses at the scene say that the truck was turning from Woodhaven Blvd. just and hit the woman just as she entered the crosswalk trying to beat......

Rego Park and Forest Hills have been home to Uzbeki immigrants for so long that many residents and outsiders now refer to the area by the collective name Rego Parkistan. By our count there are at least a half dozen kosher kebab joints between the Boulevard of Death and 108 Street. All of these spots feature flat swordlike skewers upon which have been impaled meat, fish and the occasional vegetable, as well as such "national......

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......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: large protest at a school in Brooklyn, person in water in the Bronx, and two funerals for the slain Auxiliary Police Officers-- one in Brooklyn, and one in the Manhattan. Good news for St. Brigid's-- demolition stayed for now. Are Park Slope parents angry about school overcrowding, or scared of an Arabic-language middle school? Shake Shack opens on Wednesday-- let this year's backlash begin! Bronx Boulevard of Death: six......

The amNewYork cover story is about dangerous intersections in the city. Queens Boulevard, aka the "Boulevard of Death," has only had four fatalities in the past three years, but there have been a number of pedestrian injuries on Grand Concourse in the Bronx and at Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. Grand Concourse has had 35 pedestrian injuries during the same period, while Eastern Parkway had seven pedestrian deaths in 1999 and 2005, not including many pedestrian......

Last night, a man was crossing Queens Boulevard at 67th Avenue when a silver SUV hit him without stopping. The 59 year old man had been returning home from Yom Kippur services, and Queens DA Richard Brown said, "I'm troubled. I went to temple myself today. It's the most important day of the Jewish calendar, and apparently he was on his way home from temple after observing the holiday, and to have this happen to......

We had heard some wire reports of a fatal bike accident on West Houston and LaGuardia, and NY1 just had an update. A cyclist headed down LaGuardia and was trying to squeeze between a truck and van in the construction area. He fell off the bike and got caught under the truck, with a wheel going over his head. Houston Street has long been a dangerous road for bikers; last year, there were a few......

Paul Steely White, Executive Director of Transportation Alternatives...

One of Gothamist's resolutions for 2005 is to try to be a little less impatient and jaywalk less at the very busy intersections (that close call at 72nd Street and Broadway did it), so we were interested in the Daily News' story about how traffic deaths has been very low this year. In fact, the article was part history lesson:Only 286 people have been killed in traffic accidents this year, putting the city on pace......

Newsday speaks with a woman who is crusading to get an overpass built over Queens Boulevard. Sharon Bush, whose daughter was killed crossing the street, which is nicknamed "Boulevard of Death," quit her job to rally overpass support full-time saying, "I have nothing but time now. I'm not going to let my daughter be collateral damage." According to Newsday, there have been 84 deaths since 1993 at the intersection, thoush none this year. The Department......

The Post, Daily News, Newsday, and the Times all recount the grisly history of Queens Boulevard as an accident between two SUVs caused the one pedestrian's death and the other's injuries. The News reports that the injured victim's boyfriend ran out to help, only "to find [his girlfriend] lying in a bloody heap." The Times says the nickname "The Boulevard of Death" came to be when"more than 70 pedestrians were killed in accidents there from......