Seniors demand state senate action on speed cameras
Treyger calls on Golden "to lead and to act"
Two women who lost loved ones in accidents came to the Lodge Senior Center in Bensonhurst on Wednesday to demand that the State Senate pass legislation allowing the city to install hundreds of speed cameras in school zones.
Joan Dean, a member of the grass-roots organization Families for Safe Streets, lost her 13-year-old grandson, Sammy Cohen Eckstein, five years ago. Young Sammy was just two weeks away from his bar mitzvah when he was struck and killed by a speeding driver on Prospect Park West in 2013.
Hindy Schachter’s 75-year-old husband Irving was killed while training in Central Park for the New York City Marathon in 2014. A speeding bicyclist ran him over. Schachter fell to the pavement, hit his head, and died.