Another accident recently happened on Adams Street in Downtown Brooklyn. This time no one was killed, though one person was injured.
The
Brooklyn Eagle reports that a car and a bus smashed into each other at the corner of Adams and Fulton around 8 p.m. Monday night, knocking a passenger inside the car unconscious.
No word yet on the state of the passenger.
According to
CrashStat, there were 49+ crashes at this intersection between 1995 - 2005, and dozens at adjoining intersections.
This is one block north of where
little Alexander Toulouse was run down by a mail truck in September, at Adams and Livingston. (Motor vehicles struck 39 people -- 28 pedestrians and 11 bicyclists -- at that particular intersection from 1995 to 2005.)
And it's a half block south of where
a Brooklyn Heights' woman was killed last April, at Adams near the Marriott. This is less than a block away from where
Judge Bookson was struck and killed, and two blocks away from another deadly intersection, Adams and Tillary Streets. Teacher
Ron Mortensen was killed at this intersection in April 2007.
The Dept. of Transportation has temporarily
changed the traffic patterns at the intersection of Adams and Tillary Streets, in an attempt to make this particular intersection safer.
Every time parents hear that another accident took place on Adams Street, they speed dial their kids. Many schools -- including the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice high school, the Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science, Brooklyn Friends School, Brooklyn Law School, City Tech and Polytechnic University -- lie within a three-block radius. St. Joseph High School is just down Willoughby Street. Pacific High School is on Schermerhorn Street at Adams. Hundreds, if not thousands of children have to cross Adams Street every day to get to class.
In 2006 there was a drive to create an Adams Street/ Fulton Street overhead pedestrian overpass. At that time a local mom
was quoted as saying, “An upper-schooler was hit in September, 2005; two middle-schoolers were hit in April 2005 and January 2006; and [our school's] head of Security was hit on May 1."
The overpass idea never got anywhere.
Underpass?
Speed bumps?
Anyone?
UPDATE: The
GreenBeatBrooklyn blog reports that 39 percent of drivers in NYC have been clocked as speeding -- and Brooklyn has the worst record.
Go to McBrooklyn's HOME PAGE.
Derelict and abandoned 370 Jay Street, owned by the City and leased by the MTA, has been called a "blight on the neighborhood" and worse.
The building went up in 1950. Urban commentator Lewis Mumford was quoted as saying that the building "set the right precedent for a modern office building, and I am hopeful that its sobriety and efficiency will leave a mark on the whole neighborhood." (Manhattan Institute)
