Tag: pedestrian safety

The city has completed changes to Riverside Drive at 72nd and 79th streets in an effort to make those areas more pedestrian-friendly. Both intersections

A mother and her 4-year-old son were hit by a truck on Monday while they were crossing 65th street at Broadway, according to a report

Several locals have argued that one of the biggest dangers to pedestrians -- the fast-moving traffic coming off the Henry Hudson Parkway -- has not received sufficient attention from elected officials.

Barricades and dividers will be placed at select intersections as part of a new Central Park loop road plan. Rendering via city Department of Transportation. The city has outlined plans to change the loop road in Central Park, reducing the speed limit to 20 mph from 25 and creating new ...

On the same day a short news documentary was released about the intersection of 96th street and Broadway, another pedestrian was hit there.

Starting Friday, the city's default speed limit is 25 miles per hour, instead of 30 miles per hour. The new limit is part of Mayor de Blasio's Vision Zero plan. The math

The Department of Transportation has painted new yellow lines around pedestrian walkways on 97th street and West End Avenue that at least two drivers

Drivers can't seem to figure out this whole concept of driving around a pedestrian island. Once again, on Monday morning a car turning South

On Wednesday night around 6, a driver smashed into the pedestrian island that the Department of Transportation just installed on West End Avenue and 97th street.

Bicyclists have hit at least 35 pedestrians in Central Park this year; two of the pedestrians died and three have sustained skull fractures, according

By Howard Freeman With pedestrian safety in Central Park getting lots of attention in the past few weeks, Monday night’s Community Board 7 Parks & Environment Committee

Cab driver Koffi Komlani was charged with "failure to exercise due care" in the January crash that killed 9-year-old Cooper Stock, who

In our continuing step-by-step coverage of the changes on West End Avenue, we present a photo of what the street looks like with the new lines

Council members Mark Levine and Helen Rosenthal have introduced a bill that would close Central Park to cars next summer, allowing

West End Avenue is about to get the biggest redesign of any Upper West Side avenue since the Columbus Avenue protected bike lanes were installed. The city began laying stripes on Tuesday

Separate crashes over the past couple of days have resulted in injuries to a pedestrian and a motorcyclist in and around the neighborhood.

A car hit a woman pushing a stroller across West End Avenue on Friday morning, witnesses told us. The woman had the walk sign, a witness said.

A bicyclist crashed into a woman crossing Central Park's loop road at West 63rd street on Thursday afternoon, causing such severe injuries that sources told the New York Post that she has been declared brain dead.

Cydney S. Arther, the 73-year-old woman who was hit by a car on Sunday and taken to the hospital with a head injury, died on Wednesday

Two car crashes sent three people to the hospital over the past 24 hours on the Upper West Side.