01-09-2026 21:46 via brooklynpaper.com

‘Unacceptable’: After another hit-and-run, Brooklyn pols demand action on Third Avenue redesign

After 28-year-old nurse Jiaya Zheng was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver as she was crossing Third Avenue in Sunset Park on Aug. 29, Brooklyn lawmakers have renewed their calls to reinstate concrete plans for traffic safety improvements on the two-mile stretch of the avenue under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway without delay. Zheng was heading home from a night shift at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn and when she was struck by the driver of a 2014 Cadillac as she crossed the avenue a
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