Police have arrested a man suspected of sexually assaulting women while bicycling in Long Island City. According to the Daily News, "Police collared the man after they spotted him pedaling away from a screaming woman at Broadway and 31st St. in Astoria Tuesday morning, police said. He was captured after he rode through a red light at the intersection," cops said. more ›

Just a day after an 89-year-old pedestrian was fatally struck by a pick-up truck that jumped a curb (after a livery cab hit it), a motorcyclist was struck by a van at 146th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in Harlem around 1:20 p.m. According to DNAinfo, "Witnesses said the motorcyclist was headed south on Adam Clayton Powell when it collided with a van crossing on W. 146th Street, witnesses said. It was unclear which vehicle might have ran the light." more ›

An appeals court ruled yesterday that the city can't be held financially responsible for the actions of a traffic cop and their ensuing consequences. In 2006, Stella Lewis was crossing the street to Penn Station. She had the light, but a traffic cop waved a bus through its red light. The bus struck Lewis, causing her brain injury and the loss of three of her toes. more ›

A few days ago City Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Queens) lamented that he's "never, never seen a cop car pull over a bicyclist for running through a red light. I wish they would, because those are the ones who are creating problems every day in the city." Well, it looks like Ulrich's wish has come true: for the second time this month, a cyclist in Central Park has been shocked to find cops pulling him over for running a red light. Today's report comes from composer Alec Hall, who tells us he, along with another cyclist, got caught in a dragnet in the park yesterday: more ›

Clement Hunter, the genius who ran a red light with 513 pounds of marijuana in the back of his Dodge Caravan, has now been charged with 50 counts of felony possession of marijuana in the first degree. Hunter caught the attention of police when he ran a red light and made a right turn on Farmers Boulevard without signaling around 4 a.m. on Sunday, and then failed to pull over when police signaled him. They eventually caught him at a dead end, where he hopped out of the car and attempted to flee on foot. more ›

Cops have arrested a Staten Island man after a car chase through Port Richmond on Monday. Andrew Gibbs, 30, ran two red lights at 60mph, jumping a curb and making pedestrians scramble out of the way. With cops in pursuit he ran into a bus stop, and then reportedly kicked out a rear passenger window in an attempt to escape. Cops were able to subdue him after blasting him with pepper spray, and soon discovered he was driving with a suspended license and a bag of marijuana in his pocket. Jackpot! more ›

A former cop is speaking out against the traffic agent who issued a summons to a City Councilman after the Councilman caught him going through stop signs and red lights, sirens blazing, to go to...Dunkin' Donuts. Tim Dillon spoke to WCBS 2 about his run-in with Traffic Agent Daniel Chu while Dillon was a pallbearer at a funeral, "The family was getting ready to transfer the body from the funeral home to the churchThe traffic agent felt that they were all double-parked. There was a confrontation - he started yelling and screaming at the family members." more ›

Yesterday morning, a crash between two SUVs led to a 59-year-old pedestrian's death on Staten Island. According to the Staten Island Advance, after a Chevy Tahoe and Subaru Forester collided, the impact sent the Tahoe onto the curb at Slosson Avenue at Windsor Road, and into Beata Kurpiewski and 3-year-old Philip Kurpiewski. more ›

The 19-year-old driver who hit and killed a 47-year-old man at a Staten Island bus stop pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide and will serve a maximum of six months in jail. Joseph Catrama admitted he ran a red light and was speeding when he turned from Seaview Avenue onto Capodanno Boulevard last February, lost control of his 2008 Hyundai Sonata, and pinned Nathan Pakow between the car's bumper and metal post displaying bus route information. According to the Advance, Catrama will be stripped of his drivers license and will face a minimum of five years probation. "This plea guarantees that the defendant is held accountable for his actions and avoids the uncertainty of a jury trial," said a spokesman for the Staten Island District Attorney's Office. more ›

Some elected officials use sirens and flashing lights to avoid traffic — even though such devices are only permitted in emergency vehicles. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz's SUV was spotted running red lights in Flatbush last week, but the Windsor Terrace resident insists his lights and sirens are "appropriate." A spokesman told the Post: "They are only used with great discretion ... In this instance, he was on his way to an event with the mayor and the governor addressing the Haitian crisis and calling for emergency aid to those suffering in Haiti as well as their families here, the majority of whom live in Brooklyn." more ›

Early yesterday morning, a 48-year-old man was killed when a suspected drunk driver T-boned his car in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Jorge Cortes, of Maryland, was charged with "manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter 2-degree, criminally negligent homicide and DWI," according to WABC 7. more ›

Three people were injured when a cab driver somehow drove his SUV into one of the West 72nd Street subway entrances—after jumping the curb and driving through the wrought iron gates— yesterday afternoon. The injured included the driver, his passenger and a pedestrian. The police say no charges are going to be filed in the incident, but one witness told NY1, "The driver was sitting on the floor and he was asked if his breaks failed. And he said yes. But there was no way his [brakes] failed." more ›

Yesterday we mentioned Amy Fisher would be at Retox last night deejaying for her sex tape party. She hit the club with a statement she claimed to have written herself, after tossing aside the one her publicist wrote. She did this after, she says, she was edited to look bad on her Good Morning America appearance...despite her plastic surgery and leopard-print fur vest, shocking! more ›

Playwright Adam Rapp etches elegantly bleak portraits of America’s young lost souls; his Red Light Winter was an Obie-winner and Pulitzer-prize finalist, Blackbird was recently adapted into a film which Rapp also directed. (He wrote and directed his first feature, Winter Passing, which starred Ed Harris, Zooey Deschanel and Will Ferrell.) Rapp’s published seven novels, plays in a band, and is not someone you’d want to play one-on-one basketball with to settle a bet. more ›

Ooh - the State Assembly has passed a bill doublnig the number of red-light cameras in the city. Red light cameras record who has been running red lights, and Assembly Ivan Lafayette of Queens explains, "As soon as you put a red-light camera in at an intersection, the number of collisions there will drop by 70% in a matter of months. The bill will double the current number of cameras to 100 and could generate up to $13 million in revenue from fines. Gothamist, more a pedestrian than a driver, loves the Red Light Camera program, but we do acknowledge that lots of pedestrian cross against the light, even though cars have right of way. Not that we want things to be Giuliani-style with $2 jaywalking tickets again, but traffic problems do begin when some party is not following the light. more ›

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LAist tracks an award-winning TV writer who worked on Good Times to a homeless shelter and sees a Little Old Lady get a jaywalking ticket because she can't get across fast enough (in the same post!). Poets invade Metro and an LAist contributor's new book asks WWJB. more ›

It’s almost April, do you know where your Broadway mega-shows are? Cate Blanchett and Hedda Gabler got things off to a smash start, and the rest of the big guns are revving up: Tarzan, Lestat , Julia Roberts in Three Days of Rain, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies in Festen…and more. We’ll spare you (and ourselves) the wallet strain and the eye-rolling – there are plenty of worthy littler shows crying out to be seen. more ›