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zaterdag 21 december 2024
WORLD WORLDWIDE US USA - New York NY - New York City NYC - THE CITY - Killed in a police chase, his family got the bill
Dear New Yorkers,
Samuel Williams died a day after he collided with an unmarked police car that swerved in front of him. Sixty days later, his family received a bill for $3,429.23.
It arrived in a letter addressed to Williams seeking payment for the damages to the police car. “Our records indicate that your vehicle damaged city property on the above date,” reads the July 2023 letter, which came from the office of the city comptroller, Brad Lander.
Williams, 36, was an avid street biker who doted on his 6-year-old daughter with weekly shopping trips and visits to the nail salon, according to his mom and sister. His sister, Sha-Sha Prince, said getting the bill from the city so soon after his death was “horrible.”
“You kill someone in May, and two months later you send a bill for damages you caused?” Prince, 48, told THE CITY. “It felt like getting punched in the stomach not once but twice.”
Williams is among at least a dozen people who were killed following police vehicle pursuits in the past two years, which have also injured hundreds, under an invigorated NYPD chase policy that Mayor Eric Adams said this week is intended to deter people from fleeing after they’re pulled over.
Read more here about Williams — and watch the dashcam footage of the police officers who, driving in the opposite direction as Williams, veered sharply into his path.
Weather 🌨️
The weather you’ve all been waiting for: ladies and gentlemen, a wintry mix.
MTA 🚇
In Brooklyn, the Manhattan-bound 2 skips Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum, Grand Army Plaza and Bergen St all weekend. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.
Turns out Ingrid Lewis-Martin’s expectations were correct: the mayor’s longtime top aide was indicted in a bribery and money-laundering scheme alongside her 38-year-old son. Lewis-Martin’s alleged actions, which included taking requests from developers and leaning on other city officials for help in expediting permits in exchange for money, are described by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg as “naked cronyism.”
An Amazon delivery driver and a top Teamsters organizer were arrested during a picket at an Amazon warehouse in Queens on Thursday morning. The arrest came just hours after the union launched a nationwide strike against the company. Video obtained by THE CITY shows NYPD officers placing the zip-tie-cuffed organizer in a police van shortly after 10 a.m. It was a chaotic start to the largest strike yet leveled against Amazon’s operations just days before the Christmas holiday.
Work to bring elevators to a Bronx subway station is finally set to begin in February — nearly a decade after a federal lawsuit said it had to be done. Currently, only around 30% of the nearly 500 subway and Staten Island Railway stations are accessible, according to the MTA. The agency is under a court mandate to get that number to 95% by 2055, a costly and time-consuming process of adding modern elevators to stations that, in some cases, are more than a century old.
Things To Do
Here’s what’s going on around the city this week.
Wednesday, Dec. 18 – Sunday, Dec. 22: See the iconic New Year’s Eve Numerals before they’re hoisted to the top of One Times Square. The big ‘2025’ will be in Duffy Square from Dec. 18 to 22.
Saturday, Dec. 21: Make a wooden holiday ornament with the Urban Park Rangers at this free nature workshop, Roy Wilkins Park, 177th Street and Baisley Boulevard in St. Albans, Queens. 10 to 11:30 a.m.
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