“We hope he’ll take the same measures against car manufacturers.” “We’re heartened that the mayor wants to ramp up his approach to street safety,” said Danny Harris, the executive director of the advocacy group Transportation Alternatives. The Transportation Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.) (The New York Police Department said it did not have specific statistics on the number of collisions involving mopeds, which are grouped with motorcycles in crash data. The mayor’s actions drew criticism from some street safety advocates, who noted that the number of deaths from Revel’s mopeds paled in comparison to the 95 people killed and more than 18,000 injured in car crashes so far this year. It just doesn’t work the way it’s structured.”ĭe Blasio did not offer specific criteria that Revel would need to meet, and city officials did not immediately respond to questions. “Our people have been talking to Revel, and they’ve been making changes, but not enough changes, is the bottom line,” the mayor said. The mayor called the situation “unsatisfactory and unacceptable.”ĭe Blasio added that the city had the ability to “regulate, restrict and even prohibit Revel scooters,” and that the company would need the approval of city officials to restart its operations. Mayor Bill de Blasio said his administration had been in discussions with Revel’s chief executive after a number of reports of recent crashes involving the mopeds, which can travel up to 30 mph. Revel, in a statement posted on its website, said it would shut down its New York City service in order to “review and strengthen our rider accountability and safety measures” but that it planned to restart operations in the city “in the near future.”Ī spokeswoman said Revel was in active discussions with city officials but declined to comment further. Similar startups have launched in cities in Europe and Asia, where mopeds have long been more common. Within the last year, Revel, which is based in Brooklyn, has expanded to four other US cities and announced plans for a fifth. The decision came as moped sharing has spiked in popularity, both in New York and globally. Hours later, Revel, whose electric-blue, Vespa-like vehicles have become a familiar sight on the streets of New York City, announced that it was suspending its operations in the city. No one was in custody as of Sunday morning, and police said they would be releasing still photos and video from the scene.Then, Tuesday morning brought a second fatality, when a man who was driving a Revel moped crashed into a light pole in Queens. “This is unacceptable, and it has to stop.” “This was a brazen, coordinated attack, for lack of a better word,” Essig said. A party was in progress at a restaurant a few doors down from the barbershop at the time of the shooting, he added. Three of those shot were known members of the Trinitarios, a Dominican street gang, and were the intended targets, Essig said.
All four were wearing hooded sweatshirts, police said. Police said the two gunmen arrived at the scene on foot, but left by jumping on the backs of two mopeds driven by two other men. The most seriously injured victim suffered a gunshot wound to the stomach, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said.
The eight men and two women, who range in age from 19 to 72, were all hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.
The shooting in the borough's Corona neighborhood took place just before 11 p.m. NEW YORK (AP) - Two men strode up to a crowd outside a barbershop in the New York City borough of Queens and opened fire, wounding 10 people before fleeing on mopeds, police said Sunday morning.
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