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Martin (left) and Kathleen Treat stood outside the Time Warner Center s West 58th Street garage on May 1, warning passersby to be careful as they crossed the driveway where Kathie Coblentz was fatally struck on April 3. (Nick Garber/Patch)
MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY After a woman was killed by a driver pulling out of the Time Warner Center parking garage, a Midtown community board is pushing the company that owns the complex to make safety improvements.
The April 3 crash killed 73-year-old Kathie Coblentz, who lived steps away and was the third-longest serving employee of the New York Public Library. Police said Coblentz was walking west on West 58th Street when she was hit in the roadway by a man pulling his Honda Minivan out of the underground garage, causing Coblentz to fall backward and hit her head on the pavement.
Kathie Coblentz, 73, Dies; Not Your Ordinary Librarian
A Yankees fan, marathon runner, cinephile, editor, and, yes, a cataloger, she was the New York Public Library’s third-longest serving employee.
The librarian Kathie Coblentz in 2005 with some of the 3,600 books in her Manhattan home. She wrote “The New York Public Library Guide to Organizing a Home Library” (2003).Credit.Paxton for The New York Times
April 23, 2021Updated 3:37 p.m. ET
Kathie Coblentz, a Renaissance woman who read or spoke 13 languages; collaborated on books about the directors Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood and Alfred Hitchcock; and, during her day job, cataloged rare books for more than 50 years at The New York Public Library, died on April 3 at a hospital in Manhattan. She was 73.
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