The Ocean Avenue News - oceanavenuenews.comBED-STUY — P.S. 54 IS SET to be renamed this September after NYPD Detective Rafael Ramos, who along with his partner Detective Wenjian Liu was shot and killed in 2014 nearby, reports the Brooklyn Paper. Liu was honored in April with the renaming of P.S. 331, a new school set to open in September. Ramos […]
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CITY HALL — ‘YOU CAN BLOW A WHISTLE,’ Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Chief Advisor to NYC Mayor Adams, said at the regular City Hall Tuesday press conference when the mayor was asked how women can protect themselves from random, unprovoked attacks. While the mayor himself was short of concrete advice, Lewis-Martin jumped in. “You can blow a […]
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KENSINGTON — A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy, identified as Juared Umedjon, was killed on Monday afternoon in Kensington when his e-bike fell into the side of a turning truck, reports Gothamist. Two other teens, who had been also riding the bike that Umedjon was driving, were injured in the collision. Police said the accident happened after the […]
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A 16-year-old boy on an e-bike was killed Monday after colliding with a truck on a notoriously deadly thoroughfare in Brooklyn.
Police say 16-year-old Juraed Umedjon, of Ocean Parkway, was driving an e-bike southbound on Coney Island Avenue when a box truck started turning south onto Coney Island from Ditmas Avenue in Kensington at 1:54 p.m. Monday. Police say Umedjon, who had two other male teenage passengers, attempted to pass the truck but lost control and struck a traffic cone, collapsing to the roadway and ending up underneath the rear passenger tires of the truck.
EMS transported Umedjon to Maimonides Hospital in Borough Park, but he could not be saved. A 15-year-old passenger was also taken to Maimonides in stable condition, while another 16-year-old passenger was treated on the scene for minor injuries.
The truck driver remained on the scene, and police do not suspect criminality.
Traffic collisions have killed 158 people across the five boroughs in 2024 through Aug. 18, according to the NYPD. Deaths are up 10% in Brooklyn this year.
Umedjon was the 12th child and 15th cyclist to die in a traffic collision this year, according to the advocacy group Transportation Alternatives.
Coney Island Avenue has a reputation as a particularly deadly thoroughfare in Brooklyn. Since 2011, the road — which stretches from Prospect Park to Coney Island — has been the site of 15 deaths, including 10 pedestrians, 3 cyclists, and 2 motorists. Nearly 2,800 people have been injured in crashes along the corridor in the same time period.
In 2019, Coney Island Avenue was the site of one of New York’s most horrific crashes in recent memory, when a teen driver blew a red light at high speed and T-boned a passing car, smashing both vehicles into nearby cyclist Jose Alzorriz and killing him.
“This intersection could be redesigned and rebuilt tomorrow with new daylighting, physical turn calming, and protected bike lanes,” said Elizabeth Adams, co-executive director at Transportation Alternatives, in a statement. “Yet even with crash, after crash, after crash, on the same dangerous streets and in the same dangerous intersections, progress moves far too slow. Our leaders cannot pretend to care about the children of our city and still do nothing when they’re killed over and over again.”
DUMBO — A Parks Department employee discovered parts of a human skeleton, including a skull, on the waterfront rocks near Jane’s Carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park on Monday morning, reports the New York Post. Sources told the Post that police also discovered fragments of clothing, as well as a pair of boots, nearby the bones. […]
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Members and volunteers of a Bay Ridge nonprofit that serves children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities celebrated on Tuesday after securing $2 million in federal funding for renovations and upgrades to their southern Brooklyn facilities.
Congress Member Nicole Malliotakis obtained the funding for the Guild for Exceptional Children (GEC) through a Department of Housing and Urban Development grant. The funds will be used to modernize the nonprofit’s buildings near 67th Street and Third Avenue.
Since 1958, GEC has supported residents with developmental disabilities, currently assisting approximately 500 individuals with supportive services, daily programs, and workforce training. The $2 million renovation will overhaul the first floor of the building, which houses the Hope C. Morrison Day Habilitation Center, to create more community space that is wheelchair accessible, along with bathroom, floor and ceiling upgrades.
Construction is expected to take six to nine months and is earmarked to get underway in early Spring 2025. Further renovations will also include the upper floors of the building, which will be retrofitted with a new apartment and more program space for the individuals attending GEC’s day program.
Exterior work to the building is expected to include resurfacing of the roof, a new façade and surfacing in the backyard to prevent future flooding and injury.
“We know that housing for the developmental disability community is one of the biggests needs that we have in our state right now. It is so important that we work to improve and expand the housing options for the individuals like those we are standing with me today,” Malliotakis said Tuesday during a garden party at GEC’s soon-to-be-upgraded headquarters.
“The Guild for Exceptional Children has been a cornerstone of our city for decades, and they haven’t undergone any significant renovations in over 30 years,” Malliotakis continued. “They do incredible work for families in our area, and I hope this funding allows them to continue providing invaluable resources to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities for years to come.”
Also speaking at the Aug. 20 announcement, GEC Executive Director and CEO Joe Riley noted that 6745 and 6751 Third Avenue were the first buildings acquired by GEC when the agency began supporting people with intellectual and development disabilities 65 years ago, and have been in use for adult day habilitation and 24-hour residential services since.
Reilly offered his appreciation to Malliotakis for helping the nonprofit secure the funding for its most significant renovation in the last 30 years.
“The renovation is sorely needed and GEC is very grateful to the Congresswoman, who has always been supportive of our mission going all the way back to when she was in the New York State Assembly,” said Reilly. “Thank you Congresswoman Malliotakis, from all of us at GEC.”