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NYPD Crackdown on Jaywalking

Officer Richard Silverstein of the 71st Precinct told COLlive stricter laws will be enforced for jaywalking in Crown Heights. Full Story

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DSOOF
September 17, 2010 11:52 pm

Oy Vey. No Oy J.

מטורף!!!!
September 6, 2010 12:34 am

ומה עושים כבר למכוניות שלא עוצרות בcrosswalk?!!??
Crazy world!!!!!

excercise concious
September 3, 2010 11:21 am

this is a great thing for all you lazy people who can’t walk an extra few minutes!

How much..?
September 3, 2010 1:43 am

How much is a Jay walking ticket?
I once asked a female cop in brooklyn and she didnt know. She said she never wrote a ticket for that.

to #3
September 2, 2010 11:30 pm

We are examples to the kinderlach. If they watch us jaywalk, it’s an endorsement of the practice. YOU may be a #1 expert jaywalker — a world champion, even. But the CHILD who then goes ahead and copies the behavior you’ve just modeled, well, would you like that on YOUR cheshbon (that you influenced children to endanger themselves by jaywalking)? Quit your kvetching about walking a few extra steps and say a kapital tehillim while waiting a few extra minutes for the light to change. Buy a rolling cart if you can’t carry your purchases without jaywalking. But be a… Read more »

More ways to steal our money
September 2, 2010 11:22 pm

This is just a new scheme to steal our money. They will not go to Utica ave to ticket jay walkers, only on Kingston and EP. And they use the excuse that it’s for our safety.

To #3
September 2, 2010 11:12 pm

Do you think nothing happens on a 1 way street?

If you come out from between 2 cars & someone driving doesn’t see you, are you in the right because it’s a 1-
way street?

Or how about the guy who is too lazy to drive around the block to get to the other end of the street, so he points his car in the right direction & backs up all the way down the street & doesn’t see you stepping out in front (oops, I meant in back) of his car?

Hmmm...
September 2, 2010 11:12 pm

They way it sounds its really looking at everyones safety with the use of a scare tactic. Large influx of visitors who are use to looking right as the cross the street should be aware they here in the US you have to look left before crossing the street. Let’s be safe and warn others about crossing the street. And i highly doubt any summons will be written

HOLD UP PEOPLE
September 2, 2010 11:08 pm

this is for our benefit not there’s
they are just trying to help US remember that

insane
September 2, 2010 10:31 pm

this is the biggest joke i ever heard they tried to enforce jay walking in manhattan way back never worked jay walking is part on new york life

barricade
September 2, 2010 9:52 pm

they should barricade any entrance to the street on EPW between kingston and brooklyn and only allow pedestrians to cross on marked walk ways

not only bocherim
September 2, 2010 7:57 pm

A very small percentage of jay walkers are jews

safety
September 2, 2010 7:33 pm

ww.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/Pedestrian-Study-Report-Says-New-York-Safer-100911929.html

ww.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nyc_ped_safety_study_action_plan.pdf”

Only 20 percent of the pedestrians killed or seriously injured in New York last year were crossing against the light, compared to 27 percent who had waited for the walk signal, the study found”
the issue isnt crossing the issue is looking before you cross

kudos #9
September 2, 2010 7:20 pm
new york driver
September 2, 2010 7:00 pm

what about the rest of the borough? crown heights is not the only place with jaywalkers. they should enforce it all over brooklyn and manhattan

to 7 and 3
September 2, 2010 7:00 pm

in your dreams!! believe me, those who dont think this is a good idea are nuts. when you cross in the middle of quiet streets and nothing happens, you’ll think ‘hey, i’m careful, nothin’l happen to me’ and that leads to accidents.

ACLU
September 2, 2010 6:34 pm

Isn’t it a constitutional right to jaywalk in New York, or something?

about time - great news
September 2, 2010 6:34 pm

so many accidents happened because bochurim and kids cross in the middle of the street – so dangerous and reckless!!

about time!!!
September 2, 2010 6:28 pm
At the same time...
September 2, 2010 6:24 pm

They should reinforce the laws for cars who stop in middle of a crosswalk.
I was just trying to cross with my kids and a stroller and the cars were all backed up, so they squished so close together that I was unable to cross and had to wait for the next light.
Anyways, I don’t think it’ll help. these foreigners are not afraid. They know that someone will bail them out an hour before shabbos, and they’ll become a public figure.

1-way quiet streets, oops didn't cross b4, now have to walk all the way to the next corner to cross!!
September 2, 2010 6:21 pm

That is so riduculous when it comes to one-way streets that barely have traffic. So if I’m on kingston shopping, and I need to go across the street to another store, I need to walk all the way to the corner each time? And then back to my car again?! Eastern pkwy and empire I def agree with, bt quiet 1-way streets, are they going to start ticketing for that too?!

lol
September 2, 2010 6:04 pm

wana c that happening

seriously?
September 2, 2010 5:58 pm

Are they going to ticket on all streets or just Eastern Pkwy?

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