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New Yorkers and most everyone else in the United States switched to Daylight Savings Time early this past Sunday. This change gives more daylight in the evening making long summer days even longer. Daylight Saving Time was originally instituted during WWI, but has...
It's shocking. Most cab drivers in New York City who injure or kill pedestrians and passengers are still on the road. The New York Post looked into 16 fatal or serious taxi accidents since 2009 and found that only two of the drivers had had their licenses revoked....
The attorneys at Block O'Toole & Murphy have not been shy about criticizing the MTA and Metro North Railroad as part of this blog in the past. After all, the commuter train operator has had many very public mistakes in recent times - - and we are not talking about...
This blog has reported before on the difficulty of obtaining usable traffic crash data from NYPD. However, there are several alternative sources. These are operated by private citizens who take the raw data from the PDF files released by the New York Police Department...
Although this blog frequently reports on the dangers faced by New York City construction workers, other jobs in New York are also dangerous. Take, for example, the hazards faced by police officers every day. Already in 2014, one officer has been shot in the legs and...
Despite the best efforts of businesses and labor unions, construction work is still a very dangerous occupation. There are, on average, two fatalities each day on construction sites across the United States. The cost to the economy of construction accidents is...
The Brooklyn lawyers at Block O'Toole & Murphy continue to follow a very serious construction accident - - a building collapse - - that took place in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn yesterday. 1916 Prospect Place in Brooklyn was a 3 story building that was...
Another fatal pedestrian accident, this one involving a bus, took the life of a Brooklyn pedestrian over the weekend. The victim a 21-year-old woman, was crossing the street at Union and Meecker avenues around 1:30 AM on Saturday when she was struck by an MTA Q59 bus....
