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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%) | $0.07 |
| unified_story | 0.0 | 0/3 (0%) | $0.07 |
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| 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: one woman down, a city on notice | 560 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ❌ | ❌ | 0.0 | $0.06 |
| citywide-nyc | unified_story | New York City: One crosswalk at 2 AM. One city’s ledger of loss. | 432 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ❌ | ❌ | 0.0 | $0.06 |
| council-39 | default | Four dead since 2022 in District 39. The fixes sit on paper. | 624 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ❌ | ❌ | 0.0 | $0.07 |
| council-39 | unified_story | District 39: A quiet morning in Prospect Park. A cyclist didn’t make it home. | 508 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ❌ | ❌ | 0.0 | $0.08 |
| senate-23 | default | SD 23: Bay Street, a turn, a body, and the ledger that won’t close | 496 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ❌ | ❌ | 0.0 | $0.07 |
| senate-23 | unified_story | SD 23: Bay Street, then silence | 584 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ❌ | ❌ | 0.0 | $0.07 |
default New York City: one woman down, a city on noticeJust after 2 AM at 86th St and 18th Ave, a 76‑year‑old woman in the crosswalk was struck and killed. The crash report lists “Traffic Control Disregarded.” (NYC Open Data, CrashID 4833274) City data show 184 people killed on New York City streets in the last 12 months. (NYC Open Data) Queens morning, two men at a food cartIn Astoria, an 84‑year‑old driver and two pedestrians were killed in a morning crash on Aug 12. The open‑data record lists the driver as an 84‑year‑old male who died, and two male pedestrians, 70 and “0” listed, both killed. (CrashID 4834594) The street was 42 St at 19 Ave. Two parked cars were struck. One SUV turned left. A sedan went straight. Three people did not go home. A separate account put it in plain words: “Three people are dead after a senior driver hopped a curb and mowed down two pedestrians.” (amNY) Hit and run near the airportAround 2:30 AM in Springfield Gardens on Aug 13, a driver hit a 52‑year‑old man crossing 155th St at South Conduit Ave and fled. “The driver sped off without stopping. No arrests have been made.” (NY Daily News; Gothamist) He was taken to Jamaica Hospital and died. Detectives opened another case file. (Gothamist) The bodies keep comingIn the last year, city records log 53,567 crashes and 33,347 injuries. (NYC Open Data) For people on foot, the machines that hit hardest are common ones: SUVs and cars. Pedestrian collisions tied to SUVs show 1,826 injured or killed, including 41 pedestrian deaths. Sedans account for 2,028 injured or killed, including 16 pedestrian deaths. (NYC Open Data: Persons/Vehicles tables) Queens had another kind of terror too. A wrong‑way driver on the Clearview Expressway rammed five cars. “Joseph Lee terrorized other drivers as he purposefully drove the wrong way,” Queens DA Melinda Katz said after the eight‑year sentence. (amNY) Two motorists were badly hurt. City Hall has the levers. Will they pull them?The Mayor runs this city. The administration sets the default speed limit and designs the streets. The open records do not explain why we are still waiting for slower speeds, but the path is on paper.
Build for people, not speedThe city says it will redraw 14th Street “to improve the pedestrian experience.” (NY1) Plans come and go. The dead stay dead. One woman in a crosswalk at 2 AM. Two men at a food cart. A 52‑year‑old near the airport. Names turned into numbers on a spreadsheet. The fixes are known. Make the calls. Act now. FAQ
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Geo: | unified_story New York City: One crosswalk at 2 AM. One city’s ledger of loss.Just after 2 AM on Aug 6, 2025, at 86 St and 18 Ave in Brooklyn, a 76‑year‑old woman was struck in a marked crosswalk and died. The crash report lists “Traffic Control Disregarded.” (NYC Open Data) She was one of 184 people killed on New York City streets since Jan 1, 2022, alongside 33,347 injured and 502 with serious injuries. (NYC Open Data) SUVs and cars figure most in the harm: city data ties them to 70 pedestrian deaths in this period. (NYC Open Data) Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn: the line keeps movingIn Astoria the next week, a Toyota jumped the curb and killed two men at a food cart; the 84‑year‑old driver also died. An eyewitness said, “I have never seen anything like this.” (amNY) Near JFK, just after 2:30 AM, a 52‑year‑old man crossing South Conduit was hit and left to die. “The driver sped off without stopping. No arrests have been made.” (NY Daily News) In Midtown East on Aug 23, a Ford sedan going west on 14 United Nations Ave S struck a pedestrian outside an intersection. The person died at the scene. The listed factor was driver distraction. (NYC Open Data) The map changes. The toll remains.City Hall says change is coming to 14th Street. A $3 million design phase “aims to improve the pedestrian experience,” with public and BID money behind it. (NY1) The ledger does not wait. Since 2022, New Yorkers have logged 53,567 crashes. The bodies are counted the same way in Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island. (NYC Open Data) Slow the cars. Stop the repeat offenders.The city can choose safer speeds. The state can rein in the worst drivers. Mandate intelligent speed assistance for repeat speeders and drop the default limit on local streets. The tools are on the table; the deaths are on the record. Act here. What will it take to end a midnight crossing like 86th and 18th?The woman in that crosswalk is gone. The signal was ignored. The pattern is clear in the data. The fix is simple: slower streets and controls on those who refuse to slow down. Take action. FAQ
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default Four dead since 2022 in District 39. The fixes sit on paper.Just after 8 AM on Jun 5, 2025, a 71‑year‑old cyclist was killed on Center Drive in Prospect Park. City crash data lists him as unconscious at the scene and dead soon after. He was one of four people killed on the streets of Council District 39 since Jan 1, 2022, with 599 injured in 1,024 crashes through Aug 29, 2025, according to the same dataset and period window in our files. Center Drive to Ocean Parkway, the harm repeats
Heavy fronts, soft bodies
The corner is known. The cure is known.Council Member Shahana K. Hanif is the primary sponsor of a bill to force curb extensions at the most dangerous intersections—five sites per borough, each year (Int 0285‑2024). She also co‑sponsors a bill to ban parking within 20 feet of crosswalks and harden at least 1,000 corners a year (Int 1138‑2024). Hanif has said, “We need to have the political courage across all levels of government to create a city that is walkable, prioritizes pedestrians, and ends these senseless murders.” (Streetsblog NYC, Aug 18, 2023). Albany holds the keys for repeat speedersAfter a mother and two daughters were killed in a separate Brooklyn crash, Hanif stood with lawmakers backing the Stop Super Speeders Act (S4045C/A2299C) to require speed limiters for drivers who rack up violations (Brooklyn Paper). Our brief also lays out the bill’s thresholds and why it matters for this district’s streets (/take_action/). Your state delegation here is Assembly Member Robert Carroll and State Senator Steve Chan. The record we have shows Hanif’s sponsorship of the local daylighting and curb‑extension bills and her public support for the speed‑limiter push; we do not see documented sponsorships by Carroll or Chan on the state measure in this file. What will they do? Slow it down, street by street
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Geo: | unified_story District 39: A quiet morning in Prospect Park. A cyclist didn’t make it home.Just after 8 AM on Jun 5, 2025, a 71-year-old bicyclist was killed at Center Drive and West Drive in Prospect Park. NYC’s crash log records the death. They were one of 4 people killed on District 39 streets since Jan 1, 2022, alongside 599 injured in 1,024 crashes. The city’s own data says so. See the dataset. “Any death is a tragedy… We need to do better,” a safe‑streets leader said when cyclists kept dying. Council Member Shahana Hanif put it plainly: “We need to have the political courage… to create a city that is walkable, prioritizes pedestrians, and ends these senseless murders.” Streetsblog. Ocean Parkway, the park, and the highway keep hurting peopleThe worst toll clusters on Ocean Parkway and along the BQE. Ocean Parkway shows a death and injuries. The BQE shows a death and dozens hurt. These are listed as top hotspots. NYC Open Data. A pedestrian was struck on Ocean Parkway near Avenue C just after 1 AM on Aug 9, 2025. The record shows a 2023 SUV, front‑end hit. Crash record (CrashID 4833650). Injuries pile up around midnight and at the evening rush. That’s when the numbers jump. NYC Open Data. People on foot and bike carry the woundsIn this district since 2022: 1 pedestrian killed and 95 injured; 1 cyclist killed and 107 injured. These are the bodies, not abstractions. NYC Open Data. Among pedestrian crashes where a vehicle type is logged, SUVs are involved most often here in the injuries: 44 cases, including 1 death and 1 serious injury. NYC Open Data. The fixes exist. Do we use them?Hanif wrote a bill to force curb extensions at dangerous intersections every year. Int 0285‑2024. She also co‑sponsors a push for universal daylighting with hard barriers at thousands of corners. Int 1138‑2024. After a mother and two daughters were killed in another part of Brooklyn, lawmakers and advocates rallied for the Stop Super Speeders Act, which would require repeat violators to use speed‑limiting tech. Hanif stood with them. Brooklyn Paper. The council can pass curb extensions and daylighting. Albany can rein in repeat speeders. The data shows where to start: Ocean Parkway. The BQE. Prospect Park. Lower speeds, fewer funeralsCitywide, the next lever is simple: slow every street. Our city has the power to set safer speeds and to rein in repeat speeders. We list how to press those levers now here. Call it what it is: a 71‑year‑old on a bike who never came home. The map already marks the next corners. FAQ
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default SD 23: Bay Street, a turn, a body, and the ledger that won’t closeJust after 3 PM on Jul 5, 2025, a motorcycle hit the driver-side door of a Toyota making a K‑turn on Bay Street in Clifton. The rider, 34-year-old Jeremy Claudio, died at the hospital (amNY). He was one of 5 people killed in Senate District 23 since Jan 1, 2022. In that same window, crashes injured 1,280 people across 2,086 collisions, with 12 listed as serious injuries (NYC Open Data). Speed, turns, and weight meet flesh. The pattern holds. Hylan’s mixed signals, and the costBorough officials say drivers are getting mixed messages on Hylan Boulevard’s bus lanes. “That’s one accident every four days where somebody perhaps unwittingly thinks they must turn from the middle lane,” Borough President Vito Fossella said of a rash of right‑turn crashes tied to unclear signs. “But other than those hours… the bus lane is open for use” (amNY). Each sign that muddles the rule pushes risk to the corner. The person outside the car pays. The numbers don’t blink
These are ledger lines. Each line is a person. The votes that shape the streetState Sen. Jessica Scarcella‑Spanton voted yes in committee for S 4045, a bill that would require intelligent speed assistance for repeat violators — “drivers who rack up eleven or more points in 24 months, or six speed or red light camera tickets in a year” (Open States). On school‑zone speed cameras, Scarcella‑Spanton voted no on reauthorization, joining a small bloc of city lawmakers who opposed keeping cameras running (Streetsblog NYC). Assembly Member Sam Pirozzolo was among Assembly opponents named in that report (Streetsblog NYC). Albany has since renewed NYC’s 24‑hour school‑zone speed cameras through 2030, a tool linked to slower driving where installed (CrashCount Take Action). The cameras can only record what leaders allow. What nowLower speeds save lives. New York City can set safer limits and the state can rein in repeat speeders. The bill to fit speed limiters is live (S 4045). The votes are public. The toll is too. Tell your electeds to act. Start here: Take Action. FAQ
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Geo: | unified_story SD 23: Bay Street, then silenceJust after 3 PM on Jul 5, 2025, a 34‑year‑old motorcyclist hit the driver‑side door of a Toyota making a K‑turn on Bay Street in Clifton. He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead, police said, with no arrests as the Collision Investigation Squad looked on (amNY). He was one of 5 people killed on these streets since Jan 1, 2022, alongside 1,280 people injured across 2,086 crashes in Senate District 23 (NYC Open Data). The bodies keep coming; the calendar pages turn. Hylan at Benton. An 80‑year‑old pedestrian killed at the intersection on Mar 7, 2025 (NYC Open Data). Targee at Pierce. A 58‑year‑old pedestrian killed off‑intersection on May 17, 2025 (NYC Open Data). Castleton at Park. A 13‑year‑old on a moped, thrown to the pavement before dawn on Aug 5, 2025; critical head injury; the bus crew unhurt (amNY). Cars and SUVs striking people on foot account for 203 pedestrian injuries here, including 2 deaths in the same window (NYC Open Data). The machines stay intact. People do not. The corridor tells on itselfOn Hylan Boulevard, drivers keep turning from the middle lane while the curb lane says “bus.” Staten Island’s borough president put it plain: “That’s one accident every four days,” he said, pointing to inconsistent signs that swap hours for a vague “Bus Corridor Photo” warning (amNY). Confusion at the curb. Bodies in the crosswalk. The pattern shows up in the logbook too. In SD 23 since 2022: 2,086 crashes, 1,280 injuries, 12 serious injuries, 5 deaths (NYC Open Data). The numbers are dry. The scenes are not. What Albany did—and didn’tState Sen. Jessica Scarcella‑Spanton voted yes in committee for the Stop Super Speeders Act (S4045), which would force repeat violators to use speed‑limiting tech (Open States). The same senator voted no on renewing the city’s school‑zone speed cameras, joining two other city senators in opposition (Streetsblog NYC). Assembly Member Sam Pirozzolo, who represents much of this district, also voted no on speed cameras, as recorded in that roll call (Streetsblog NYC). Staten Island leaders have questioned congestion pricing, too, even as research shows fewer jams elsewhere in the city (amNY). The result on the ground is not a debate. It is a stretcher. The fix is not a mysteryLower speed saves life. The city now has the power to cut the default limit and can use speed cameras to enforce it; the state can rein in repeat violators with speed limiters. The bill exists: S 4045 (Open States). The crash data sits in public view (NYC Open Data). A boy on Castleton. An elder at Hylan. A rider on Bay. The line runs through them all. One thing you can do now: ask City Hall to lower speeds citywide and press Albany to pass speed limiters for repeat offenders. Start here. FAQ
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