A Homecrest man was sentenced Tuesday to three to six years in prison for causing a Memorial Day 2022 collision that killed a 65-year-old pedestrian in Gravesend.

Isidro Rodriguez, 38, pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in November and received his sentence on Feb. 4 from Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice John Hecht.

According to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, Rodriguez was driving a 2020 Cadillac Escalade north on West 1st Street on May 30, 2022, shortly after 10 a.m., when he ran a red light at Avenue P and T-boned an Uber, a 2016 Hyundai Sonata, traveling east.

The impact sent the Cadillac spinning toward Jun Jin Yang, who was crossing the street. Yang tried to move out of the way but was pinned between the Cadillac and another vehicle, prosecutors said.

Black box data from the Cadillac showed that seconds before the crash, Rodriguez accelerated to 42 mph in a 25-mph zone and did not brake, according to prosecutors.

Emergency medical personnel took Yang to Maimonides Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The 32-year-old Uber driver was treated for minor injuries at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, while his two passengers — a 29-year-old woman and her 2-year-old daughter — were treated for minor injuries at New York Community Hospital.

Rodriguez was arrested on July 20, 2022, following an NYPD investigation.

“This defendant’s reckless and selfish actions robbed an innocent man of his life and devastated a family that will forever mourn this senseless tragedy,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement. “No one should have to fear for their life while crossing the street. My heart is with the family of Jun Jin Yang as they continue to grieve their unimaginable loss.”

THE POSTAL SERVICE SUSPENDED inbound packages from China and Hong Kong on Tuesday, Feb. 4, but lifted the suspension on Wednesday morning.

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Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been rumored for months to be considering a run for mayor of New York City — and three straight polls suggest voters would easily back him over Mayor Eric Adams and the rest of the Democratic primary field.

Elected three times as governor of the Empire State, Cuomo resigned in 2021 amid a sexual harassment scandal over allegations that he has denied but had dogged him to the point where it made it impossible to lead. 

Yet, more than three years after the scandal that brought his governorship to an abrupt end, Cuomo appears to be on the verge of a remarkable political comeback as Mayor Adams faces sagging popularity, scandals, and a federal criminal indictment.  

The former governor — a “Queens boy” who grew up in South Jamaica and graduated from Archbishop Molloy High School in Briarwood — relocated his official residence to Manhattan in recent months, fueling rumors that he might have his sights set on City Hall.

Even though he has yet to officially declare his intentions, three recently released polls among registered Democratic voters likely to participate in the June primary have Cuomo far ahead of Adams and every other declared candidate for mayor. A Honan Strategy Group poll released on Feb. 3, which simulated the ranked-choice vote, found that Cuomo would win with 58% support of voters on the sixth ballot. 

During his governorship, Cuomo championed progressive causes popular among New York City voters, such as minimum wage increases, codifying same-sex marriage and reproductive rights, paid family leave, and laws to combat gun violence. 

On the flip side, the governor also drew outrage from the public over the sexual harassment scandal involving several aides and his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically outbreaks in assisted living facilities for which Cuomo opponents blamed him for deadly outbreaks.

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