Family members of fatal hit-and-run victim Imorne Horton demanded justice for their lost loved-one at a vigil Friday, after a driver struck the Red Hook resident and left him to die on Hamilton Avenue last week. “I’m hoping that there will be justice served for my son and that the person is apprehended and will be incarcerated for killing my child,” said Horton’s mother, Tasha Horton, at the March 5 gathering near the scene near Court Street. “I miss him dearly. I just hope that I get justice for him.” The 31-year-old died after a driver…
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Officials with the Department of Transportation and the Economic Development Corporation presented new details regarding the mayor’s $2.73 billion trolly project, the Brooklyn Queens Connector, at a meeting of Community Board 1’s Transportation Committee on Jan. 16, including changes to the proposed route and how the city would rejigger streets to accommodate hizzoner’s widely criticized transit scheme. The BQX would have its own tracks separate from traffic on 90 percent of its 11-mile route, running in both…
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