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Posted on Jan 9, 2012 By Dan Flanzig
A federal advisory committee has recommended that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lower the threshold for diagnosing lead poisoning in children, the first recommendation of its kind in ...
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Posted on Dec 9, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
The Bloomberg administration has aggressively expanded New York City's bicycle infrastructure, creating hundreds of miles of bicycle lanes and encouraging residents to try out the cleaner, often ...
Posted on Dec 7, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Agency Found Exempt From Turning Over Traffic-Camera Footage Andrew Keshner Contact All Articles New York Law Journal December 8, 2011 function EmailWindow(param) { if (param!=null) { var ...
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Posted on Dec 1, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
countersued for his own injuries, alleging that the woman improperly crossed into the bike lane Tuesday, November 22, 2011 A Windsor Terrace woman is suing New York City for $3 million after nearly ...
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Posted on Nov 30, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM James Estrin/The New York TimesSafety-warning poems / sprouting from city sign poles / look for one near you. Look! It's a street sign with a haiku underneath. They are new, ...
Posted on Nov 21, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
What happens to a bicycle when it gains an electric motor? Is it still a bicycle? Is it a scooter? Or is a different beast entirely, a patched-together monstrosity with no place on the road? The legal ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Charles Astor, 4, amid the new traffic barrels set up in Prospect Park. Collisions have left two pedestrians badly injured. By J. DAVID GOODMAN On a stretch of Prospect Park 's main drive, bright ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Ever been doored? It is actually illegal By Andreas on 15/11/2011 in Safe cycling in London I was once witness to a car dooring. My friend was pedalling past stationary traffic less than a metre ahead ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Steps to keep in mind if you are ever involved in an accident By Andreas on 21/09/2010 in Safe cycling in London It's a horrible thought, but it is far better to be aware of the steps needed if you ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
A Room of Their Own for 2-Wheeled Commuters Dave Sanders for The New York Times Jordan Mokriski in the bike storage room of the Starrett-Lehigh Building, where he works. The room holds about 150 ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Diverse Consequences Arising From State Medical Indemnity Fund Lawrence Knipel New York Law Journal November 15, 2011 In recent years, states across our nation have increasingly focused on legislation ...
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Posted on Nov 14, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Salvaging Abandoned Bikes, Making Room for Others CRAMPED AREAS Bicycle rooms have become a lure for many apartment hunters in the city, but many bikes are left behind in them, often for years. By J. ...
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Posted on Nov 14, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
The Pedestrian Loses the Way By CHRISTOPHER GRAY Published: November 10, 2011 IN the future, perhaps our time will be known as the first decade of the Bicycle Wars, with righteous armies fighting over ...
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Posted on Nov 10, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Long v. Massapequa Union Free School District NASSAU COUNTY Torts New York Law Journal November 10, 2011 Justice Ute Wolff Lally Long, a student, sought to recover money damages for personal injuries ...
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Posted on Nov 8, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Act Fast to Save Sight if Signs of Danger to the Retina Appear By JANE E. BRODY The eyes may be windows to the soul, but the retina is the brain's window to the world. When the retina is injured, ...
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Posted on Nov 8, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Pleasures of Life in the Slow Lane By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN Published: November 7, 2011 New Yorkers should love bicycling. We're control freaks. We want to get from here to there in a New York minute and ...
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Posted on Nov 7, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
For James Michael Taylor, an evening bath became a death sentence. Multimedia Deaths in Care: 16 Cases Investigating Deaths in State and Privately-Run Homes The Death Files The Death of James Taylor ...
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Posted on Nov 2, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Hospital Ordered to Produce Data on Computer Diagnosis New York Law Journal November 02, 2011 Joan Bowman, as the Administrator De Bonis Non of the Estate of Michael E. Bowman, Plaintiff v. St. ...
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Posted on Oct 28, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
The Surprising Psychology of Driver Interaction With Cyclists by Angie Schmitt on October 26, 2011 Pop quiz. Do you wear a helmet when you ride? Spandex or normal clothes? Are you female or male? ...
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Posted on Oct 28, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and MOSI SECRET Published: October 27, 2011 Eleven people were charged on Thursday in an enormous fraud scheme in which hundreds of Long Island Rail Road workers falsely claimed ...
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Posted on Oct 21, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
David Goldman for The New York Times Hip resurfacing, an alternative to traditional hip replacement, at the Hospital for Special Surgery. By BARRY MEIER Published: October 20, 2011 In another ...
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Posted on Oct 19, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
By Joe Coscarelli Mon., Feb. 28 2011 at 2:34 PM This afternoon, Gothamist points us to a proposal by assemblyman Michael DenDekker, a Democrat from Queens, which would require by law that every ...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Here's a fun thing to ponder: Can you install a bike rack outside your house and then claim it as yours and yours alone? It comes up because that appears to be what one intrepid East Villager has gone ...
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Posted on Oct 11, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
The driver's neighbor writes us in his defense.] A delivery worker, described by police as a 41-year-old Asian man, was killed last night in Greenpoint when a driver in a Buick struck him from behind ...
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Posted on Oct 11, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
It's a great time to be a bike advocate-so go ahead and party like it's 1899. By Bob Mionske Fifty years ago, there was no national bicycling advocacy organization. This hadn't always been the case. ...
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