26-year-old teacher Hwi Wu died last night after she was struck by a city bus while crossing the street. The accident took place near the end of the line for the Q58 bus outside the Myrtle-Wyckoff subway station, right on the border of the Bushwick section of Brooklyn and the Ridgewood section of Queens. Wu was crossing Palmetto Street when the bus struck her and trapped her underneath it. A witness told NY1, "The bus was turning, when it was turning, it hit her first on the left and she stumbled and she fell on the floor, and it ran over both her legs." The spot of the accident is a complicated one, six-way intersection where the elevated M train meets the underground L train and more than one bus line terminates. The Q58 in question appears to have been out of service and no charges are expected for the driver. Wu came over from China in 2002. had graduated from LaGuardia College last year and was working with autistic children at a Queens day care center. more ›

As promised last October, NYC Transit has installed video screens on the platform in the Myrtle-Wyckoff station in Brooklyn showing the locations of every L train on the line, updated every 15 seconds. The system was unveiled to reporters yesterday, and L Line General Manager Greg Lombardi was on hand to explain this 21st century marvel to awe-struck commuters. The screens cull data from the L line’s cutting-edge computerized operating system, which tracks exact train locations; if they prove successful, Lombardi promises to expand them to other stations on the L line, so stranded straphangers will at least have something to watch while they seethe. But at least one commuter yesterday was unimpressed, telling NY1, "If they're broke right now, and they're cutting service, I'm not sure they should put money into something like this." An NYC Transit rep tells us the screens were bought at Circuit City (LG 42”) and the system cost "way less than $100,000" to implement. more ›

Two flat-screen monitors are being installed on the L train platform at the Myrtle-Wyckoff station in Brooklyn that will show the locations of trains in real time. Icons on the screens will indicate which direction the train is headed and how close is it to the station, with a long view of the entire L line, as well as a close-up view of nearby stations. According to NY1, riders will also see trains that are being held and trains that aren't picking up passengers. more ›