Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian safety

Meet Danny Harris, the incoming head of Transportation Alternatives. He's a New Yorker unfazed by the intersection of Astor Place and Broadway. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

STREETSBLOG INTERVIEW: New TA Leader Has Optimism and Vision — But Understands Your Rage

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jul 30, 2019 | 9 Comments

Streetsblog chats with the new leader of the city's most important livable streets activist group about his vision and approach to running Transportation Alternatives.

An officer prepares to issue cyclist Alan Mukamal a ticket while parked in the the bike lane at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Furman Street in Brooklyn. Photo: Alan Mukamal

Op-Ed: I Got ‘Harassment Ticketed’ as ‘Payback’ During the NYPD Blitz

By Alan Mukamal | Jul 29, 2019 | 68 Comments

As the blitz goes "permanent," watch out for cops who seem to have it out for cyclists.

The driver made a right turn from Ninth Avenue onto W. 17th Street when he struck 31-year-old Firstess Earth Crosby, who died from her injuries months later on July 22.

No Charges for Driver Who Ran Over a Woman — Twice — In a Crosswalk

By Julianne Cuba | Jul 24, 2019 | 7 Comments

Another pedestrian is dead in an already bloody week in an already very bloody year — and, yet again, the truck driver who killed her inside a marked crosswalk has not been charged.

The current "shared path" is too narrow, too steep and doesn't really keep pedestrians and cyclists apart — which was the whole point of diverting cyclists from the Hudson River Greenway between 72nd and 83rd streets. Photo: Streetsblog

No Big Changes Coming to Dangerous Riverside Park Bike ‘Detour’

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jul 22, 2019 | 35 Comments

Cyclists think the Parks Department is not taking safety concerns seriously along a hastily built, steep, dark, root-damaged detour from the Hudson River Greenway that was installed to separate pedestrians from cyclists along the much-used river route.

A pedestrian/traffic mashup near the Plaza Hotel at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street shows just how dangerous it is on one of New York's grandest thoroughfares. Photo: Liam Jeffries

Op-Ed: These Five Manhattan Streets Need Safety Fixes Now!

By Liam Jeffries | Jul 22, 2019 | 7 Comments

The city just fixed one killing zone. It needs to fix many, many more.

The intersection of West 98th Street and West End Avenue, where the crash took place on Friday

Two Pedestrians Struck By Driver On Upper West Side

By Dave Colon | Jul 19, 2019 | 19 Comments

Two pedestrians on the Upper West Side were injured, one seriously, after the driver of an Acura sedan hit them on Friday afternoon, police said.

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