New York Post: NYC refuses to release seized bikes in Sandy-damaged building

The New York Post covers efforts to force NYPD to release the bicycle of Mathieu Lefevre, for use as evidence in the suit against the truck driver who struck and killed him. The Lefevre family chose Steve Vaccaro to represent them.

Thousands of bikes seized during NYPD investigations are being held indefinitely at a Brooklyn warehouse that was damaged by Hurricane Sandy — and cops won’t even allow the family of a dead cyclist to have access for a lawsuit, court papers state.

Police sources insist the Kingsland Avenue facility in Greenpoint — which is condemned because of storm damage — is too dangerous for anyone to enter and retrieve the seized cycles.

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