Transit & Streets Quiet since Sep 22 Updated Sep 22, 2026
The cyclist death toll
New York City cyclist deaths have climbed to 15 this year after two riders were killed in hit-and-runs on the same day, Aug. 18, in Brooklyn and the Bronx. More than 3,000 people have died in traffic violence since Vision Zero began in 2014, and advocates are pushing the fight toward November's Ballot Question 3, which would speed up street-safety construction.
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Sep 22, 2026 Latest
Streetsblog reported that the excavation truck whose driver killed 15-year-old Daria Serkov on a Citi Bike held a 2023 waiver from the city's side-guard safety requirement, one of 312 such waivers issued this year, down from 572 in Eric Adams' last year, after the Business Integrity Commission found the truck's toolboxes and fuel tanks made guards impractical. Transportation Alternatives said Serkov was the 13th child killed in traffic this year, double last year's pace.
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Sep 19, 2026
The victim of Friday night's East Village crash was identified as 15-year-old Daria Serkov, killed when a 57-year-old truck driver turning from East 14th Street onto First Avenue struck the Citi Bike she was sharing with a 16-year-old friend, who was hospitalized in stable condition. The driver stayed at the scene and had not been charged as of Saturday, and Transportation Alternatives said Serkov was the fourth cyclist killed on the same eight-block stretch of First Avenue in the past decade.
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Sep 19, 2026
A 15-year-old girl was killed and a 13-year-old injured when a turning excavation truck struck the Citi Bike they were sharing at East 14th Street and First Avenue in the East Village on Friday night, with the driver remaining at the scene, ABC7 and the New York Post reported.
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Sep 17, 2026
Streetsblog reported that Mayor Mamdani's 'Vision Zero Reimagined' pledge to add hardened daylighting 'or better' at 1,000 or more intersections a year marks a retreat from the universal daylighting advocates had expected, and Brownstoner reported street-safety advocates pressing Mamdani to do more.
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Sep 16, 2026
Mayor Mamdani's 'Vision Zero Reimagined' plan set more than 100 policy goals across 19 city agencies, as NYPD tickets for reckless-driving violations fell 41% since 2019 and cyclist deaths this year rose to 18, up from 10 at the same point in 2025. Hell Gate reported the administration could not say where new pedestrian zones would go or when daylighting construction starts.
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Sep 15, 2026
Mayor Mamdani rolled out 'Vision Zero Reimagined,' committing 19 city agencies to more than 100 steps including hardened daylighting at 1,000 or more intersections a year and redesigns of every untreated priority corridor within three years, following the recent wave of hit-and-run deaths. DOT Commissioner Michael Flynn said the plan accounts for human error in road design, and an official said speed limiters for repeat speeders are still over a year from launching.
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Sep 2, 2026
State Sen. Andrew Gounardes, Assembly Member Marcela Mitaynes and Council Member Alexa Aviles demanded DOT deliver the shelved Third Avenue redesign in Sunset Park, days after nurse Jiayi Zheng was killed crossing at 55th Street; 11 pedestrians and cyclists have died on the two-mile stretch since 2014.
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Sep 1, 2026
Mayor Mamdani said New York City will move forward with Third Avenue's 2023 redesign, stalled since DOT first presented it, following nurse Jiayi Zheng's fatal hit-and-run in the crosswalk at Third Avenue and 55th Street, though he gave no start date; the two-mile corridor under the Gowanus Expressway has killed 11 people walking or biking since 2014.
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Aug 31, 2026
A hit-and-run driver killed NYU Langone-Brooklyn nurse Jiayi Zheng, 28, as she crossed Third Avenue at 55th Street in Sunset Park on Saturday morning after finishing an overnight shift, the fifth fatal hit-and-run in New York City in two weeks. The stretch of Third Avenue under the BQE has killed 11 pedestrians and cyclists since 2014, and DOT said the Mamdani administration remains committed to redesigning the corridor, a 2023 plan shelved under Eric Adams, though it set no date.
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Aug 27, 2026
About 100 people held a die-in at City Hall Plaza on Wednesday, the first since 2019, after hit-and-run drivers killed three cyclists in five days and a fourth New Yorker, Destiny Murrell, in a West Village crosswalk. Eighteen volunteers held signs naming each of the 18 cyclists killed in New York City this year, up from 10 over the same period in 2025.
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Aug 24, 2026
Transportation Alternatives called a die-in outside City Hall for Wednesday after hit-and-run drivers killed three cyclists in three days last week, Streetsblog reported.
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Aug 22, 2026
A hit-and-run driver killed 40-year-old DoorDash courier Mamadou Diallo at East 54th Street and Avenue I in Flatlands, Brooklyn, throwing him into a parked car before fleeing, the third cyclist killed by a driver who left the scene in New York City in three days.
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Aug 20, 2026
A hit-and-run driver killed 29-year-old e-bike rider Paulina Tec Choc at Jamaica Avenue and Cypress Hills Street in Brooklyn, the city's 15th cyclist death this year, and hours later a fleeing BMW driver fatally struck 51-year-old Angelo Camera as he crossed Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx. More than 3,000 people have been killed by traffic violence citywide since Vision Zero launched in 2014, and Transportation Alternatives called on New Yorkers to vote yes on Ballot Question 3 to speed up street-safety construction.
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