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A four-sentence AP squib reports a Wednesday night pedestrian death:

A woman in her upper seventies to early eighties was hit by an ambulance at around 6 a.m. today while crossing Bay Parkway at the Belt Parkway in Bath Beach. The ambulance was carrying a patient. No word on whether lights and sirens were on. The driver passed a breath test, according to NY1.

Organizers of today's St. Patrick's Parade are telling everyone to leave their cars at home. Plus other news.

Streetsblog sometimes posts opinion pieces from New Yorkers who may not be as engaged on livable streets issues, but nonetheless can offer an insight. This is one of those.

A woman who was struck and seriously injured by a driver in Riverdale earlier this week has died — and the driver remains uncharged, police said on Friday.

With more than 40,000 intersections across the city, it will take centuries to hit them at all.

"I am shouting from the rooftops to get the public on board" with safety initiatives, says one activist.

Two promising lives cut down early.

A Manhattan senior was run over and killed by the driver of a massive SUV on Wednesday while she was trying to cross highway-like West Street near Canal Street — a dangerous area that advocates have been trying to fix for years.

An elderly man has died after police say he was struck by an electric bike rider in the Amsterdam Avenue bike lane earlier this month — highlighting a lack of safe infrastructure and a culture that caters more to vehicles than the safety of pedestrians and cyclists.