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"It's a perverse system," Councilmember David Greenfield said today. "Currently, we're saying to the drivers of New York City: Be reckless, drive drunk, unlicensed, run people over, and nothing is going to happen to you."

Click through on the photos for the scoop on the DBA Brooklyn beer benefit for the late owner Ray Deter, rooftop dining at Hotel Chantelle, and the massive new upscale Asian food supermarket in Flushing.

Friends, family, and acquaintances of the late Ray Deter will gather tonight at DBA in the East Village for a New Orleans-style "second line" memorial parade in honor of the beloved bar owner.

This is the second cyclist fatality in a week, following the death of Marilyn Dershowitz on Saturday after she was struck by a 7-ton mail truck. Dershowitz was wearing a helmet, while Deter was not.

Ray Deter, the bar owner struck by a Jaguar on Canal St earlier this week, is not expected to make it through the weekend, his family says.

It's unclear if a helmet would have made a difference in the accident that has left Ray Deter clinging to life, but his wife says he never wears one.