Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Carnage

Thunder Road: Third Avenue (looking north from 61st Street), a straight shot for speeding vehicles, has seen a lot of illegal drag racing since the start of the pandemic. Photo: Liam Jeffries

Op-Ed: Courting Death on the Third Avenue Speedway

By Liam Jeffries | Apr 22, 2020 | No Comments

COVID-19 has turned an East Side road into a race course where pedestrians cling to tight-rope-like sidewalks. How long until somebody dies?

Images like this remind us of how much road space we set aside for cars at the expense of people. Photo: Bess Adler

Op-Ed: Saving New York After COVID-19

By Lisa Orman | Apr 20, 2020 | No Comments

The city can start building a healthier, more sustainable future by reclaiming streets from cars now. It's not rocket science, Bill de Blasio.

The intersection is typically a free-for-all. Photo: Google

Police Hunt Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Pedestrian in Queens

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 14, 2020 | No Comments

The driver of an SUV struck and killed a Queens pedestrian on Tuesday afternoon, then did a U-turn and left his victim for dead, police said.

It's not the expansion of cycling that causes the epidemic of crashes. It's the lack of cycling infrastructure, the persistence of bad driving, and the proliferation of assault cars that do. Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

Op-Ed: Skip the Victim-Blaming on Bike Lanes, New York Times!

By Michael King | Apr 9, 2020 | No Comments

Health columnist Jane Brody, usually a beacon of sense, gets city cycling badly wrong, a traffic expert says.

Yes, the NYPD will still show up to these kinds of crashes. But cops will no longer respond to minor crashes — a policy change with massive ramifications that remain unvetted. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

NYPD Gives a Few Details of New ‘No Report’ Crash Policy

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 3, 2020 | No Comments

The NYPD says its plan to stop sending cops to the scene of minor car crashes will free up officers for more important work and reduce congestion — all “without sacrificing safety,” the agency claims. On Friday, the NYPD finally issued some limited information about its plan — first reported earlier this week by Streetsblog […]

Hey, Empire State Building, Maybe You Can Sound the Alert About How Dangerous Brooklyn is For Cyclists

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 2, 2020 | No Comments

Cyclists are still being injured in Southern Brooklyn at a disproportionate rate.

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