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City public works officials said Thursday they expect to put in a sidewalk on the N 43rd Street block where a young mother and her unborn son were killed within three to four months.
"If we can get it in sooner, we will," city transportation manager Jean Dorzback told City Council members during an update on actions taken since the Nov. 18 accident. "We're trying to make it a priority."
But that wasn't good enough for skeptical council members or grieving relatives.
"My sister is gone," Nicole Walker said of 27-year-old Monica Alvarez, who died after being struck by a car as she and a friend pushed strollers down 43rd Street near Hillsborough Avenue. "And I know if there was a sidewalk out there, she would have walked on it."
Likewise, she said, if the street had been better lit, the driver of the car that hit her sister could have seen the women and their strollers.
"Just show some concern," Walker pleaded. "Just show me you care."
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