City - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:34 - 2 Comments

Look Right, Left, and Right Before Crossing – Wait, It’s A One-Way Street

According to an analysis put out by the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, Manhattan’s deadliest streets are 3rd Ave and Broadway. As NYU students, we traverse these streets at least once a day, and as far as I’m concerned, there usually aren’t any problems. However, both streets have chalked up 10 pedestrian deaths each in the past two years, with 7th Ave and 1st Ave following behind with 7 deaths each.

However, I took a closer look at the maps where the pedestrian deaths were listed by location. I found that on Broadway, there were no deaths around the NYU campus (from 4th to 8th St).  But on 3rd Ave, there were two deaths around the campus (from 2nd to 14th St), one of which was a 67-year-old male. And there seems to be a higher number of red dots (which represents fatalities) uptown than downtown.

Moral of the story? Don’t go above 14th St.

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