(Photo: Scott Lynch)
Police arrested 24-year-old Maykel Felix-Tejada, who was driving a dump truck with a suspended license when he hit an 83-year-old man who was crossing Bowery and Canal Streets Friday afternoon. The victim was pronounced dead upon arrival at Downtown Beekman Hospital. [Bowery Boogie]
The Parks Department received a payday of over $400K from Greenpoint Landing developers seeking to cut down three trees. [Brooklyn Paper]
Streit’s Matzo factory, which resided on the Lower East Side for nine decades, will relocate to Orangetown, New Jersey. [Bowery Boogie]
A pair of Allen Street store owners say being part of a new Chinatown bus route is hurting their profits. [DNA Info]
Girls intern Malia Obama and sister Sasha dined with eight pals Saturday night at Ruby’s Cafe on Mulberry Street in Nolita. [NY Daily News]
Meet writer and director Clayton Dean Smith, who shot a new indie film called Off Track Betty on Suffolk Street. [NY Times]
Read a history of The Strangers’ Hospital, which treated patients in the 1870s at 143-145 Avenue D. [Ephemeral NY]