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https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/201...crash-run-over

For Ryan Leary, 31, a transplant to Bushwick from Western Massachusetts, getting run over by a dump truck last week was the final link in a chain of bad luck that convinced him it's time to leave New York City.

Since he moved to Bushwick three years ago, his bike was stolen, he got bed bugs, he was mugged on his own block and he lost most of his earthly possessions to water damage after firefighters had to spray a blaze started on the roof of his building when his neighbors set off fireworks there on the 4th of July.

Then he got run over by a truck.

"I'm done with the city," Leary said from his hospital bed at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens on Tuesday evening where he's recovering with a laundry list of broken bones including his pelvis, femur, ankle and a potentially torn ACL. "New York City has done enough to tell me it doesn't want me here."

He'll be bedridden for months to come...

[Louis]

That stinks.

But at least he doesn't have to worry about bed bugs in the hospital...

[moobikes]

Sounds like he really lived the 1970's New York experience some people are so nostalgic for.
Damn lucky to survive his encounter with a truck.
De Blasio's Zero Vision is a cruel joke.

[R3awak3n]

He got unlucky, it happens in every city.

It is true a lot of bikes get stolen here, I ride citi bike when I have to lock up. Has solved that problem for me (also, so damn convinient).

We had a bed bug scare 2 yeara ago, neighbours had them and I freaked out. We never got them though. A lot of bed bug cases in nyc, that happens and nothing you can really do about it. There are also mice, everyone has mice, they wont go away.

As far as accidents, that really sucks, I feel bad for the guy but in a city with 8 million people, the amount of bike accidents are actually pretty low.

[Mr. Pink]

Quitter.

Probably a Red Sox fan.