Ray Deter, the owner of d.b.a bar on First Avenue, died Sunday of injuries that he sustained when he was struck by a car while cycling June 27. The staff at d.b.a. posted news of Mr. Deter’s death on the bar’s Facebook page. Details about funeral services for Mr. Deter have not yet been released.
— Khristopher J. Brooks
BIKE ACCIDENTS
Bar Owner Dies After Cycling Accident
By KHRISTOPHER J. BROOKSOn 14th St., A Perilous Intersection
By CLAIRE GLASS
For those locals who took a quick glance at accident statistics for New York City compiled by Transportation Alternatives, it probably came as little surprise that the East Village is home to two of the city’s most perilous intersections.
The intersection of Third Avenue and East 14th Street tied for the fifth most dangerous intersection in Manhattan with 66 crashes involving pedestrians from 1995 to 2005.
Bowery and West Houston Street tied for the most dangerous intersection in the entire city with 29 crashes involving cyclists.
Now that Transportation Alternatives has unveiled a plan that it believes will help make streets safer, The Local decided to pay a visit to 14th Street between Second and Third Avenues to talk to residents and business owners about the area’s dubious place as one of the city’s most treacherous stretches of asphalt.
NYU Journalism’s Claire Glass reports.
