The Paper of Record for Greenwich Village, East Village, Lower East Side, Soho, Union Square, Chinatown and Noho, Since 1933
June 29, 2017 • $1.00 Volume 87 • Number 26
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Truck driver arrested and charged in death of cyclist on First Ave. BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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ollowing a police investigation, the truck driver involved in the April 5 collision at First Avenue and E. Ninth St. that killed a 31-yearold Lower East Side cyclist has been arrested and hit with three charges. According to police, Kyung Hwan Hyun, 59, of Syosset,
N.Y., was arrested on the afternoon of Wed., June 28. He was charged with failure to yield for a pedestrian, failure to exercise due care and improper left turn on a one-way road. In the fatal collision, Kelly Hurley, 31, of Orchard St., was struck as she was cycling northbound on First Ave. and CYCLIST continued on p. 3
Push to save some pieces of destroyed Norfolk St. synagogue BY BILL WEINBERG
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he fate of the forlorn remains of the landmarked Beth HaMidrash HaGadol synagogue on Norfolk St. — gutted by fire on May 14 — is clearly an agonizing question for the Lower East Side’s Jewish community. On June 20, the Commu-
nity Board 3 Landmarks Committee, meeting at the Evelyn & Louis A. Green housing residence off Cooper Square, passed a resolution to protect as much as can be saved of the original structure after public safety is taken into account. The vote followed much testiSYNAGOGUE continued on p. 8
PHOTO BY Q. SAKAMAKI
Resistance both reigned and riled at the annual Pride March on Sunday. See ar ticle, Page 4.
De Blasio, Chin come under fire at town hall BY SCOTT R. A XELROD
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esides the heat, there was a palpable tension in the room when Mayor Bill de Blasio and Councilmember Margaret Chin hosted a town hall at the Chinatown YMCA and University Settlement on E. Houston St. on Wed., June 21. And while many of the roughly 400 attendees of the RSVP-only event waited pa-
tiently or impatiently to grill Hizzoner on a litany of topics that have been part of much criticism aimed at his administration, hundreds turned the sidewalk outside into what could have easily been mistaken for a casting call for contestants for “Who’s Pissed Off at the Mayor and Margaret the Most?” Mayoral candidate Sal Albanese arrived with the intention of holding a press confer-
ence about an hour before the town hall, not knowing the scope of protester turnout, and the fact that there was little room to walk, let alone engage an audience. He did have time, however, to share some thoughts on the two politicians headlining the town hall. “It’s clear that de Blasio and Chin are not listening to the MAYOR continued on p. 20
Pride was safer — but insaner for drivers ........p. 2 Ave. B stabbing victim ‘was doing drug deal’.....p. 9 Eye on Pride: March photos.....p. 6
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