Chair Epstein asks NYPD about high crash corridors

Thank you, Chair Bray.

Thank you all.

I know it's going to be a long day for all of you, so I appreciate it.

And for the public here, thank you for sticking with us.

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Can I first start with PD about the high

crash intersections.

You mentioned there are 15 intersections.

What data did you use to come up with those 15 intersections and can you tell us where those intersections are?

Absolutely.

So we worked closely with the DOT.

We could certainly give you what we used at the time, but this 15 corridors we established going back to 2024.

One such example of a corridor I just mentioned was Ocean Parkway, 606166 precincts, and we maintained data.

Across those corridors.

So where are the 15?

Can you tell us where those 15 intersections locations are?

It's the entire city, essentially.

But there's only 15, right?

So we're not talking about 500.

They cover multiple precincts.

For instance, I'll give you...

I said Ocean Parkway, right?

That's the 606661 precinct.

So I'm going to go by precincts.

Eastern Parkway, 717377 precincts.

You look at 6th Avenue in Manhattan, it's the 1st precinct, 6th precinct, Manhattan South, Manhattan, I mean, Midtown North, Midtown South.

So it's essentially the entire city.

It touches every borough.

And so what data did you use to determine that?

Did you use 311 data, crash data?

What did you use?

So essentially we go where the data takes us, and these are the locations across the city where at the time and even now, naturally the numbers are much better now, but we still maintain them same corridors.

At the time it was spikes in fatalities, spikes in collisions and injuries.

Going back to Ocean Parkway again last year, March 2025, three fatalities.

We had that horrific accident in March of last year.

This year, as we said, zero fatalities.

Yeah, so I'd like the data for all 15 intersections because I appreciate that you're naming one, which is great.

And we can name more.

I have the data for all of them.

So it's something that we maintain.

It's not an issue at all.

Yeah, I'm happy.

I'm sure the public would like to hear it.

Chair, we're happy to add to this as well from DOT.

DOT analyzes, we receive NYPD's crash data, and then we process it and do the analysis.

We help look at what the trends are that help drive our Vision Zero work, as well as DOT-specific work on street redesigns.

So the corridors are arterial roads, 15 of them, not just intersections, but full corridors across the entire city.

We can get you the list fully.

But these are where we have seen the most fatalities and collisions, and they're the highest risk corridors throughout the city.