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( New York Jewish Week ) — Miriam Reinharth, who organized community forums and literary events for the New York Jewish Week from 2007 to 2012, died Tuesday after being hit by an ambulance near West 96th Street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. She was 69.
According to police, Reinharth, who lived on West 93rd Street, was struck by the ambulance Tuesday afternoon near the intersection of Amsterdam Avenue and West 96th Street, described by the Curbed real estate website last year as a treacherous stretch that includes a truck route and a double-wide east-west artery.
The ambulance that hit her took her to St. Luke’s Hospital, according to Reinharth’s husband of 39 years, former New York Times labor and workplace reporter Steven Greenhouse, in a Facebook post announcing her death .
“The police officer said the accident was not Miriam’s fault at all,” Greenhouse wrote. “The doctors there at first told me that Miriam had a broken leg (with several fractures), and I thought Miriam, with her strong will and fighting spirit, would be as good as new in a few months. She was conscious and gave me the warmest smile as she was being wheeled out of the ER for a CT scan and surgery.”