Tractor-Trailer Carrying Beer Overturns On The BQE, Snarling Morning Commute
Debris blocks all eastbound lanes at Hamilton Avenue following the crash.
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Debris blocks all eastbound lanes at Hamilton Avenue following the crash.
A driver was spotted weaving in and out of traffic during a wild chase in Brooklyn this week – placing other motorists in danger.
A New York City Councilman was credited Monday with rescuing a pregnant cat from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway was jammed in both directions during the Wednesday evening rush, after a multi-vehicle accident that left a car flipped on its roof.
According to police, one vehicle may have been going doing the wrong way of the BQE just before a head-on collision.
Maria Moss Davidson, the communications director for Veterinary Emergency & Referral Group, told 1010 WINS they dubbed the pit bill mix "Meeker" after the street he landed on.
The extensive damage was found Tuesday morning in a public parking area under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway near Cumberland Avenue.
At around noon, a car tried to avoid the traffic stop on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway near Atlantic Avenue, police said.
It happened 4:35 a.m. Wednesday in the eastbound lanes of the BQE near Atlantic Avenue. A box truck somehow lost control, spilling its cargo all over the road.
Two eastbound lanes on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway were set to shut down Monday night, as state Department of Transportation crews began a resurfacing project.
A woman was struck and killed by a city bus Saturday morning in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
All east- and westbound lanes had been closed early Monday in the area due to a vehicle fire.
A cyclist who was killed in a hit-and-run in Williamsburg, Brooklyn this week was a longtime and well-liked record store clerk in the area, according to a published report.
Police said a 2003 silver Nissan Altima was speeding and heading east on the Williamsburg Bridge in the outer traffic lane when it lost control near the eastbound B.Q.E. interchange.
A tractor trailer overturned and collided with a car on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway near the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, authorities said.
New York is among the most congested cities in America and one of its highways the worst road for traffic in the country, according to a new study.
A 13-year-old boy was struck and critically injured by a van Wednesday in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway overpass.
The Gothamist blog has been crying foul lately, after a trendy new Brooklyn neighborhood name found its way onto Google Maps.
Earlier this year, we told you about a proposal to light up a pedestrian area under the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. Efforts to make the project a reality continue, but the people behind it need your help to get the job done.
"You know that feeling when you have it," one man told WCBS 880's Alex Silverman. He was referring to that feeling that makes you want to scale a giant billboard with a can of paint.
Traffic started moving again around 10 :10 a.m., nearly two hours after a tractor-trailer accident near the Brooklyn Bridge.
Debris blocked two lanes of the westbound BQE, causing gridlock for miles.
It's not nearly so grandiose as the waterfalls under the Brooklyn Bridge, but one group wants to add light and color to a pedestrian area under the BQE in Brooklyn.
State and federal transportation officials announced they have killed the project due to the economic downturn.
They said a red, 2001 Yamaha motorcycle went over the guide rail and fell nearly 20 feet to the lower roadway.
