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The 45-year-old victim was driving west on E. 168th St. in Concourse in a Toyota Camry with TLC plates when the driver of a Chevy Traverse zipping north on Webster Ave. slammed into him in the intersection about 4:25 a.m., cops said.
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The clash began when two drivers got into a collision near Harman St. and Central Ave. in Bushwick about 4:20 a.m., police said.
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Glenn Hirsch, 51, was arrested at his home Wednesday and charged with murder and gun possession for the April 30 killing of Zhiwen Yan, 45.
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Yaakov Farhi died on Sunday, 15 weeks after he was hit on E. 12th St. near Avenue N in Midwood, cops said.
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With the stroke of a pen, President Lyndon B. Johnson expanded health-care coverage for tens of millions of Americans when he signed the Social Security Amendments of 1965, which created Medicare and Medicaid. But buried within this landmark legislation was a rule that sealed the fate of millions of people living with serious mental illness, relegating many to live in jails, prisons, shelters, or on the streets.