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Variant Summary (averages)
| Variant | Avg Score (1–10) | Poignancy Pass | Avg Cost |
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| default | 0.0 | 0/3 (0%) | $0.06 |
| editor_best | 0.0 | 0/3 (0%) | $0.06 |
Detailed Runs
| Geo | Variant | Title | Words | Quotes | Links | Unmatched Domains | Auto Pass | Poignancy | Editor Score (1–10) | Cost |
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| citywide-nyc | default | New York City: A week of blood on city streets | 538 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ❌ | ❌ | 0.0 | $0.06 |
| citywide-nyc | editor_best | New York City: 30 a.m. | 633 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ❌ | ❌ | 0.0 | $0.06 |
| council-39 | default | District 39: four dead, hundreds hurt, and corners still blind | 624 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ❌ | ❌ | 0.0 | $0.06 |
| council-39 | editor_best | Four dead since 2022. The hits don’t stop on District 39’s streets. | 798 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ❌ | ❌ | 0.0 | $0.07 |
| senate-23 | default | SD 23: Blood on Bay, sirens on Hylan, a boy under bus lights | 661 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ❌ | ❌ | 0.0 | $0.06 |
| senate-23 | editor_best | SD 23: 12 p.m. A K‑turn. A rider down. | 663 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ❌ | ❌ | 0.0 | $0.06 |
default New York City: A week of blood on city streetsSpeed. Steel. Flesh. The week did what the last one did. It took. Macombs and 174th: a woman is hit and diesA 44‑year‑old woman was struck off the roadway at Macombs Road and West 174th Street just before midnight on Aug. 6. The crash report lists the driver’s cause as “Driver Inattention/Distraction.” She died of crush injuries. The vehicle is listed as “unspecified.” The car’s front end hit her. The state logged it as an apparent death. NYC Open Data records it under CrashID 4833327. Springfield Gardens, 2:30 a.m.: the driver ranIn Queens on Aug. 13, a driver hit a 52‑year‑old man crossing 155th Street at South Conduit Avenue near JFK. The man was taken to Jamaica Hospital and died. The driver fled. Detectives opened a case. Police said the driver hit the 52‑year‑old man as he crossed and left the scene. Seventeen people had already died this year in the Queens South patrol area by Aug. 10. Astoria morning: two men at a food cart, then impactOn Aug. 12 in Astoria, an 84‑year‑old driver lost control and plowed into a food truck. He died. Two men on foot died. Police identified them as Joaquin Venancio‑Mendez, 41, and Santiago Baires, 70. Witnesses said a speeding car slammed into the men. amNY reported the driver had been told by his doctor not to drive two weeks after a stroke. Bronx River Parkway: two riders ejected, both deadJust after midnight on Aug. 11, two moped drivers, 21 and 19, were ejected and killed in a multi‑vehicle crash on the Bronx River Parkway. The record shows sedans involved and both mopeds “demolished.” The city logged both as apparent deaths. CrashID 4834345. Wrong‑way on the Clearview: eight years, and words that burnA Queens jury convicted Joseph Lee for ramming cars head‑on while driving the wrong way on the Clearview Expressway in 2023. On Aug. 14, a judge gave him eight years. Two motorists were badly hurt. “Joseph Lee terrorized other drivers as he purposefully drove the wrong way on a busy Queens highway and crashed into multiple cars,” Queens DA Melinda Katz said. Lee told police, “I entered the Clearview Expressway in the wrong direction because I wanted to hurt people and I felt ‘liberated’ by what I had done.” The count does not stopThis year through Aug. 25, 182 people are dead and 32,764 are hurt in crashes citywide. Police logged 52,671 crashes. SUVs are tied to at least 41 pedestrian deaths. These are city records. NYC Open Data holds them. What breaks the chainThe patterns are plain. Distraction. Speed. A hit‑and‑run. An expressway wrong‑way. The bodies are real. The fixes are, too. Lower the default speed. Force the worst repeat offenders to use speed limiters. Do it now. Start here: /take_action/. FAQ
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Geo: | editor_best New York City: 30 a.m.At 2:30 a.m. at 155th Street and South Conduit Avenue, a driver hit a 52‑year‑old man and fled the scene in Springfield Gardens. Police said he died at Jamaica Hospital. Gothamist. They were one of 182 people killed on New York City streets since Jan. 1, 2022, alongside 32,764 injured and 491 seriously hurt in that period. NYC Open Data. Speed, impact, and a body countIn the last 12 months alone, NYC logged the same grim tally: 182 deaths, 32,764 injuries, 491 serious injuries. NYC Open Data. Pedestrians keep taking the blow. Collisions involving SUVs accounted for 41 pedestrian deaths; sedans for 15. NYC Open Data. Queens South is hurting. NYPD data cited in local reporting counted 17 traffic deaths there through Aug. 10. Gothamist. A system that keeps letting it happenOn Jan. 18, 2023, a man drove the wrong way on the Clearview Expressway and hit car after car. A jury convicted him. The DA put it plain: “Joseph Lee terrorized other drivers as he purposefully drove the wrong way on a busy Queens highway and crashed into multiple cars.” amNY. The next summer morning in Astoria, an 84‑year‑old driver went fast, left the roadway, and struck two men at a food cart. All three died, police said. amNY and CBS New York. Another night in the Bronx, a 44‑year‑old woman listed as “not in roadway” was killed by a distracted driver at Macombs Road and West 174th Street. The NYPD coded the cause as driver inattention. NYC Open Data CrashID 4833327. Power, pressure, and a narrowed laneProsecutors say a former top City Hall adviser meddled in a McGuinness Boulevard redesign that would have added protected bike lanes, while taking money and favors. She has pleaded not guilty. The mayor defended her. Gothamist and Gothamist. Redesigns save lives when they are allowed to happen. The fight over McGuinness shows how safety can be stalled. Gothamist. The fixes are on the tableThe city now has the power to lower speeds on residential streets. Advocates are pressing for a default 20 mph limit citywide. Take action. A small group of drivers does outsized harm. The Stop Super Speeders Act would require intelligent speed limiters for repeat offenders who rack up tickets or DMV points. Take action. Lower the limits. Rein in the worst drivers. Do it before the next siren. — Data methods: We used NYC Open Data’s Motor Vehicle Collisions datasets — Crashes (h9gi-nx95), Persons (f55k-p6yu), and Vehicles (bm4k-52h4) — filtered for New York City from 2022‑01‑01 to 2025‑08‑25. We cited totals for deaths, injuries, and serious injuries from this window, and pedestrian outcomes by vehicle type from the Persons table. The hit‑and‑run vignette details come from contemporaneous local reporting; the Bronx fatality details come from CrashID 4833327. Data accessed Aug. 25, 2025. Reproduce via the Crashes, Persons, and Vehicles tables. FAQ
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default District 39: four dead, hundreds hurt, and corners still blindBodies keep falling in District 39. In the last 12 months, 4 people were killed and 589 were injured on its streets, across 1,003 crashes drawn from city data. SUVs led the harm to people on foot, tied to 43 pedestrian injuries, including one death and one serious injury. The biggest hot spots in this district’s record are the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and Ocean Parkway. Night and rush bring the hurtInjuries swell around midnight and again at the evening commute. The midnight hour logged 45 injuries and two serious ones. The 6 p.m. hour logged 45 more. Fatal crashes struck at 1 a.m., 8 a.m., 11 a.m., and 3 p.m. This is not a fluke. It is a pattern in the district’s own ledger. Where the pavement breaks peopleOn the BQE, crashes piled up with death and serious injury. Ocean Parkway showed the same. A woman walking near Avenue C and Ocean Parkway was left unconscious with head trauma after an SUV strike; the record lists crush injuries. In Prospect Park, a 71-year-old on a bike died on Center Drive. On Ditmas Avenue, a 38-year-old driver was found dead inside a parked SUV. These are the district’s facts. The city’s other hand: hit-and-run and open questionsElsewhere in Brooklyn, a driver hit a 47-year-old man at Broadway and Suydam and fled. “A driver struck and killed a 47-year-old pedestrian… then left the scene,” police said. In another case, a driver who hit a moped rider was in custody. “Criminal charges for him were still pending,” Gothamist reported. Cyclists face another cut: illegal ticketing. “This action seeks to ensure the NYPD finally follows the law… and stops unlawfully detaining and prosecuting cyclists when they’ve done nothing wrong,” attorney Mariann Wang said of a class action suit over bogus red‑light summonses, as reported. Corners stay blind. The fixes are on the table.Council files exist to clear the corners and harden them. Int 0285-2024 would force curb extensions at the worst intersections. Int 1138-2024 would ban parking near crosswalks and roll out daylighting barriers at scale. Brooklyn officials have already called for universal daylighting with hard materials like planters and boulders to stop cars from hiding walkers in the shadows, as their letter pressed. Use these tools on the BQE feeders. Use them on Ocean Parkway. Use them on McDonald and Ditmas. The repeat offender problem has a leverWhen drivers rack up violations, people die. Albany has a bill to choke the speed at the source. The Stop Super Speeders act would require cars with heavy point loads or many camera tickets to carry speed limiters that cap the vehicle a few miles over the limit, as supporters explained after a deadly crash in Gravesend, calling for passage. What this district shows, and what comes nextThis district’s sheet is blunt. Four dead. Hundreds injured. SUVs top the list in pedestrian harm. The hours tell you when it happens. The map tells you where. Clear the corners. Build the curb. Harden the turn. Then do what saves lives everywhere: slow the cars and stop the worst speeders. Want this to change? Tell City Hall and Albany to act. Start here: take action. FAQ
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Geo: | editor_best Four dead since 2022. The hits don’t stop on District 39’s streets.On June 5, on Center Drive at West Drive in Prospect Park, a 71-year-old bicyclist was killed, city crash data show (NYC Open Data). They were one of 4 people killed here since January 2022. Another 589 were injured in the same span, according to the city’s crash files (NYC Open Data). — Where the street breaks youThe violence clusters in familiar places. The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway corridor leads the list, with the most injuries and at least one death tied to it in this district-level rollup (NYC Open Data). Ocean Parkway is another repeat site. Center Drive appears too — the same park road where the older cyclist died. Ditmas Avenue shows up with a fatality at 319 Ditmas, per the city dataset (NYC Open Data). Night brings a surge. Around midnight, this district logged 45 injuries and two serious injuries — the single worst hour on the clock in the period reviewed (NYC Open Data). SUVs are the chief striking vehicles in recorded pedestrian injuries here, with one death among 43 pedestrian cases involving SUVs; sedans follow (NYC Open Data). Distraction, failure to yield, and other driver errors recur in the files, even as many cases are logged as “other” (NYC Open Data). — The pattern doesn’t flinchIn the past year alone, this area still saw 4 people killed and hundreds hurt — a flat line of loss that will not bend by itself (NYC Open Data). Cyclists and pedestrians together account for two of the four deaths in the district-level breakdown, and nearly 200 injuries between them in the current period view (NYC Open Data). Some cases end without a driver staying put. On Broadway at Suydam in Bushwick, a 47-year-old man was struck and dragged; the driver fled. Police said early reports pointed to a garbage truck. “A driver struck and killed a 47-year-old pedestrian… then left the scene,” the NYPD said (NY Daily News; Gothamist). — What officials have said — and what they can do nowCouncil Member Shahana K. Hanif backed curb extensions at high-crash corners, sponsoring a bill to force the city to build them every year at the worst sites (Int 0285-2024). She also co-sponsored a push to daylight thousands of intersections and harden them so drivers can’t hide people behind parked cars (Int 1138-2024; Streetsblog). At a Borough Hall rally, Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon said of speed limiters for repeat offenders: “The speed limiter technology is available to us. Let’s use it. It will save lives.” (Brooklyn Paper) Two fixes are ready:
Local steps match the map of harm here: daylight the corners by BQE service roads and Ocean Parkway; harden turns and add LPIs; add protected space where bikes and walkers already are, including at park crossings. Target late-night hot hours with measures that don’t disappear at dawn. — Data methodsSource: NYC Open Data “Motor Vehicle Collisions – Crashes,” “Persons,” and “Vehicles.” Fields used: crash date/time, on/off street names, person type, injury severity, vehicle type, contributing factors. Filters: Council District 39; dates 2022-01-01 through 2025-08-25; all modes. Extraction date: August 25, 2025. Explore the datasets here: Crashes, Persons, Vehicles. — Lower the speeds. Box out the corners. Fit speed limiters to the worst offenders. Then do it again the next block over. Start here. Take action. FAQ
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default SD 23: Blood on Bay, sirens on Hylan, a boy under bus lightsBay Street. A door. A death.
Hylan’s mixed signals
A boy on a moped at 1 a.m.
What the ledger says
Who moves to slow this down?
What must change
If you want it to stop, say so. Start here: Take action. FAQ
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Geo: | editor_best SD 23: 12 p.m. A K‑turn. A rider down.Just after 3:12 p.m. on July 5 on Bay Street in Clifton, a 34‑year‑old motorcyclist hit the driver‑side door of a Toyota making a K‑turn and died at the hospital (amNY). They were one of 5 people killed in Senate District 23 since January 1, 2022. In that same window, there were 2,057 crashes and 1,259 people injured, including 12 listed as seriously hurt (NYC Open Data). The toll does not let upAn 80‑year‑old man was struck at Hylan Boulevard and Benton Avenue and died (NYC Open Data, Crash 4797079). A 58‑year‑old pedestrian was killed on Targee Street near Pierce, amid a crash that also injured a moped rider (NYC Open Data, Crash 4813412). A 23‑year‑old driver died near a Belt Parkway ramp (NYC Open Data, Crash 4786429). Late at night in Port Richmond, a 13‑year‑old on a moped collided with an MTA bus and was rushed to the hospital in critical condition (ABC7). On Hylan Boulevard, confusing bus‑lane signs are tied to dozens of crashes. “That’s one accident every four days,” Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella said, pointing at drivers turning from the middle lane while signs shift by the hour (amNY). Where the danger fallsCars and SUVs figure in most pedestrian injuries here. Sedans are linked to 106 pedestrian injuries; SUVs to 70, including two pedestrian deaths. Trucks are tied to one pedestrian death (NYC Open Data). People 75 and older account for 2 of the 5 deaths. People 18–34 account for 2 more. The harm runs wide: children under 18 suffered 141 injuries in crashes across this district (NYC Open Data). Who acts when the cameras roll?Albany renewed the city’s 24‑hour school‑zone speed cameras through 2030. But State Sen. Jessica Scarcella‑Spanton voted no on that reauthorization, one of three city senators to oppose it (Streetsblog NYC). Assembly Member Sam Pirozzolo also voted no in the Assembly, joining a short list of city lawmakers against the program (Streetsblog NYC). On repeat speeders, the State Senate moved. The Stop Super Speeders Act, file S 4045, would require intelligent speed assistance for drivers with a pattern of violations. Scarcella‑Spanton voted yes in committee on June 11 and 12, 2025 (Open States). City levers left on the tableThe city now has the legal power to lower the default speed limit on local streets. It has not done it districtwide. A slower default speed and speed limiters for repeat offenders are tools on the shelf. The bodies keep coming. — Data methods: Counts and breakdowns come from NYC Open Data’s Motor Vehicle Collisions datasets for Crashes, Persons, and Vehicles, filtered to Senate District 23, January 1, 2022–August 25, 2025. Fields used include injury severity, age group, person type, and vehicle type. Extraction date: August 25, 2025. See the base datasets for Crashes, Persons, and Vehicles. What happens next• The Senate has advanced speed limiters for habitual speeders. The Assembly can finish the job on S 4045. One step you can take now: tell City Hall to drop the default speed and back speed limiters for repeat offenders. Start here: Take action. FAQ
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