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PLACARD CLASS WARFARE: Brooklyn ‘Play Street’ Scrapped So Teachers Can Park
Look out, kids — teacher's gotta get to her parking space!
January 15, 2020
NYPD Targets Blacks and Latinos for ‘Jaywalking’ Tickets
The NYPD has found another way to harass people of color: jaywalking tickets.
January 8, 2020
Op-Ed: Wanted — a Strategy for Curtailing SUVs and Monster Trucks
New York's 'shaming' campaign is a start, but activists should push for national pedestrian-safety standards and local car-free zones.
January 8, 2020
Happy Bloody New Year: Queens Pedestrian Killed
The year 2020 is picking up right where bloody 2019 left off: a Queens pedestrian was killed on Northern Boulevard, and her killer was not charged.
January 2, 2020
Streetsies 2019: Vision Zero Hero of the Year!
Meet the people and machines that helped make streets safer this year.
December 27, 2019
Streetsies 2019: The Best Transportation Project of the Year
The Department of Transportation got some things — OK, many things — right this year. And the nominees for the Streetsie are...
December 26, 2019
UWS Woman Killed By Driver — Another Hole in the Neighborhood Fabric
Police said that on Dec. 7, the driver of a 2016 RAM truck fatally struck 85-year-old Ellyn Berman as she crossed Broadway in the crosswalk near W. 61st Street at about 3 p.m. Berman died from her injuries on Dec. 16.
December 23, 2019
BREAKING: City to Slow Down Drivers on Third Avenue in Brooklyn
"It's been a very tragic year on Third Avenue," Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said.
December 23, 2019
Activists and Pols: We Can’t Wait Another Year to Fix Deadly Third Avenue
It was "Death on Third Avenue," the sequel that no one wanted.
December 23, 2019
Bloody Thursday: Truckers Kills Pedestrians In SoHo and Sunset Park
New York City's bloody backslide on Vision Zero continued on Thursday afternoon with the death of two more pedestrians hit by two more truck drivers.
December 19, 2019
