Major Deegan Expressway

Kingsbridge: 21-Year-Old Woman Charged with DWI, Three Injured in Collision

By SILE MOLONEY
A woman has been hit with a DWI charge following a collision in Kingsbridge over the weekend.   The FDNY said on Friday, May 6, at 10.52 p.m., emergency units responded to W 230th Street and The Major Deegan Expressway following reports of a motor vehicle accident. Three patients were transported to Harlem Hospital and Jacobi Medical Center. Their genders/ages/conditions were unavailable. We asked for confirmation of how many vehicles were involved in the collision and police later confirmed there were two.   A traffic alert issued by New York State on Friday night at around 11.33 p.m. referred to


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Kingsbridge Area: Fatal Sanitation Plow Truck Collision

By SÍLE MOLONEY
  The NYPD has confirmed that a 41-year-old Bronx man has died following a car accident in the Kingsbridge area. On Sunday, Jan. 9, at approximately 4.04 a.m., police responded to a 911 call following a vehicle collision which occurred on the southbound Major Deegan Expressway at West 233rd Street on the Kingsbridge border.   They said a preliminary investigation determined that a 41-year-old man driving a 2015 Black Acura TLX was traveling southbound on the Major Deegan Expressway when he struck the rear of a 2003 White Mack NYC Sanitation plow truck, driven by a 43-year-old man. The truck


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Kingsbridge Area: 41-Year-Old Man Dies in Collision with NYC Sanitation Plow Truck

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The NYPD has confirmed that a 41-year-old Bronx man has died following a car accident. On Sunday, Jan. 9, at approximately 4.04 a.m., police responded to a 911 call following a vehicle collision which occurred on the southbound Major Deegan Expressway at West 233rd Street on the Kingsbridge border.   They said a preliminary investigation determined that a 41-year-old man driving a 2015 Black Acura TLX was traveling southbound on the Major Deegan Expressway when he struck the rear of a 2003 White Mack NYC Sanitation plow truck driven by a 43-year-old man. The truck was also traveling southbound on


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Kingsbridge Heights: Two Sought for Armed Robbery Force Driver to Cross State Lines

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The New York City Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance identifying the two individuals seen in the attached photographs who are sought in connection with a robbery that occurred in Kingsbridge Heights, in the 52nd precinct.   It was reported to police that on Thursday, Oct. 21, at approximately 11.30 p.m., a 48-year-old male victim working as a Lyft livery driver picked up the two individuals at 2678 Kingsbridge Terrace. While driving southbound on the Major Deegan Expressway, one of two displayed a firearm and pointed it at the victim.   He removed $1,600 cash from the driver, and


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Man Dies following Motorcycle Accident on Major Deegan Expressway

By SÍLE MOLONEY
A 34-year-old man has died following a two-vehicle, motorcycle accident on the Major Deegan Expressway.   On Tuesday, Sept. 21, at around 10.39 a.m, police responded to a 911 call regarding a traffic accident that occurred on the southbound Major Deegan Expressway at the East 233rd Street exit, located in the 50th precinct, in the Bronx.   Upon arrival, officers observed a 34-year-old man lying on the roadway with severe trauma to his body. EMS responded and transported the man to St. Barnabas Hospital where he was pronounced deceased.   Preliminary investigation revealed the man had been riding a 2007


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Alternating Overnight Exit Ramp Closures from Hamilton Bridge to Major Deegan Expressway, Sept 20-22

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) is advising motorists of alternating, overnight closures of the Exit Ramps 1D and 1C from the eastbound Alexander Hamilton Bridge (I-95) to the southbound and northbound Major Deegan Expressway (I-87) in the Bronx, on or about Monday night, Sept. 20, through approximately Wednesday morning, Sept. 22, from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., nightly, weather permitting. Only one ramp will be closed at a time.   Motorists wanting to access southbound Major Deegan Expressway during the closure of Exit Ramp 1D should take Exit Ramp 1C to northbound Major Deegan Expressway and follow


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Bronxites Pick up the Pieces & Seek Relief in the Wake of Storm Ida

By DAVID GREENE & SÍLE MOLONEY
  The relative and literal “calm before the storm” on the afternoon and early evening of Wednesday, Sept. 1, perhaps lured many Bronxites into a fall sense of security that then-impending Storm Ida would not be as extreme as forecast. The consequences of such nonchalance proved to be devastating.   Between noon and 6 p.m., the day was overcast, humidity was at 82 percent, temperatures ranged from 68 to 72 degrees F, southwesterly winds were traveling at 11.8 mph but there was no rain. At 6.18 p.m., the National Weather Service (NWS) tweeted that tornado warnings had been issued for


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Two People Dead following Collision on Major Deegan Expressway

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Two people are dead following a crash on the Major Deegan Expressway.   On Friday, May 21, at approximately 00.01 a.m., police responded to a 911 call regarding a motor vehicle collision on the south bound Major Deegan Expressway between Exit 10 (West 230th Street) and Exit 9 (Fordham Road), in the 52nd precinct.   Upon arrival, officers observed a white 2015 BMW M3 sedan which had collided with the rear of a tractor trailer operated by a 57-year-old man.   EMS responded to the location and pronounced two occupants of the sedan, an unidentified, male driver and an unidentified,


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Man Seen Walking Against Traffic on Major Deegan Expressway Dies in Hit & Run Incident

By SÍLE MOLONEY
On Saturday, March 27, at approximately 9.12 p.m., police responded to a call regarding a man who was seen walking southbound on the northbound side of the Major Deegan Expressway in the vicinity of Exit 12 in the 50th precinct.   Upon arrival, police determined that the man of unknown age had been walking northbound in the southbound lanes of the Major Deegan Expressway between Exit 11 and Exit 12 in the vicinity of Van Cortlandt Park when he was struck by a vehicle that fled the scene. EMS responded and pronounced the victim deceased.   No arrests have been


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