{"id":144782,"date":"2026-02-25T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144782\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:00:09","slug":"manhattan-man-arrested-in-fatal-wrong-way-crash-with-woman-27-in-west-village-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144782\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan man arrested in fatal wrong-way crash with woman, 27, in West Village: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"lla5x\">A Manhattan man is facing charges for allegedly driving the wrong way and fatally striking a 27-year-old woman who was crossing a West Village street last fall.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5goss\">Police said they arrested 62-year-old Gary Levinson on Tuesday and charged him with criminally negligent homicide and reckless driving.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"67v9c\">Levinson was behind the wheel of a van when he hit Valerie Schoeck on the morning of Nov. 6 as she crossed Morton Street at Seventh Avenue, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7k5ch\">Officials said Levinson had made a left turn onto Morton Street and was driving against the flow of traffic.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"fapf0\">First responders took Schoeck to Bellevue Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9hvq3\">Levinson stayed at the scene of the crash and was not arrested at the time, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"a8beo\">Schoeck lived less than a mile from where she was killed, according to police. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/our-house-in-honor-of-valerie-schoeck\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">A GofundMe page<\/a> was subsequently created in her honor to support Our House, a nonprofit dedicated to providing grief support services. The fundraiser collected more than $63,000.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"8lusv\">Police said Levinson lives in the East Village. His lawyer, Scott Leemon, said Levinson was arraigned Tuesday and released on his own recognizance.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5vh6t\">\u201cThis was a horrible accident, and our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Ms. Schoeck,\u201d Leemon said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"erc2n\">This is a developing story based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manhattan man is facing charges for allegedly driving the wrong way and fatally striking a 27-year-old woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-144782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}