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Livery Car Kills Brooklyn Cyclist by the Brooklyn Museum on Eastern Parkway

May 19, 2013 5:48pm | Updated May 19, 2013 5:48pm
The Brooklyn Museum, across the street from 175 Eastern Parkway.
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Flickr/Howard Brier

NEW YORK CITY — A livery cab struck and killed a man biking down a rain-slicked Eastern Parkway in front of the Brooklyn Museum early Sunday morning, authorities said.

The cab and the cyclist were both heading eastbound between Underhill and Washington avenues about 1:15 a.m. when the accident happened, cops said.

The driver of the livery car stayed at the scene and was not charged with a crime, police said.

The unidentified bicyclist was taken to Methodist Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

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