Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Street Safety

Will this abandoned car on Ocean Parkway ever be removed? Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

CYCLE OF RAGE: The Car that Never Moves Yet Endangers Pedestrians (And is of No Concern to the NYPD)

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 28, 2022 | No Comments

There's a broken-down car on Ocean Parkway that has not moved since at least July, 2020. Yet it's only been ticketed three times, despite more than 30 complaints to 311. Oh, and it has an NYPD vest on the dashboard. Herein lies a great yarn.

The NYPD is almost entirely focused on guns and shootings at the expense of cracking down on reckless drivers. (All gun photos from Police Commissioner Sewell's Twitter account)

NYPD’s Lackluster Enforcement Against Reckless Drivers Continued in Second Month of Supposed Crackdown

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 28, 2022 | No Comments

Remember that much-ballyhooed crackdown on drivers who fail to yield to pedestrians — the one Streetsblog debunked last month? Well, it's even more debunkable.

The cover of the DOT presentation on Wednesday night to Queens CB3.

34TH AVE. UPDATE: DOT Presents ‘Bold’ Plan for the Permanent Open Street Called ‘Paseo Park’

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 28, 2022 | No Comments

The agency said it was motivated primarily by safety and by the higher numbers of pedestrians than vehicles for most of the day.

It is so hard to get reckless drivers off the road.

Mayor Says He’ll Act on Reckless Drivers, But Leaves Out the ‘How’

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 27, 2022 | No Comments

HIzzoner said he would use his octopine enforcement arms to "find [reckless drivers] proactively, and get them off the streets." Details, however, have not been provided.

A brining team on Queens Boulevard. Photo: Department of Sanitation

OPINION: Swap Out Car Lanes for a Center-Running Bus Lane, Better Bike Facilities on Queens Boulevard

By Samuel Santaella | Apr 26, 2022 | No Comments

Here's a better way to fix of the 'Boulevard of Death' than the DOT has yet proposed.

Transportation Committee Chair Selvena Brooks-Powers has racked up a lot of speeding tickets on her gray Nissan. [Editor's note: We have diffused the Council member's plate because her office said that showing the plate "puts her and her family at risk."] Photos: Julianne Cuba (main); Gersh Kuntzman (inset)

EXCLU: Council Transportation Chair’s Car Sped Through School Zones 17 Times in a Year

By Julianne Cuba | Apr 26, 2022 | No Comments

Do as I say, not as I do.

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