AEE Law · Data Report · Data Year 2025
The Pedestrian Blind Spot
New York is calling these the safest streets since 1910. We read the city's own crash record the way we read a case, and counted what the headline leaves out: for the person on foot, the deaths stopped falling a decade ago, the injuries never did, and the harm the sidewalk itself does was never in the number.
9,134
pedestrians injured on New York City streets in a single year.
77 hurt for every one killed · the smallest number in the file is the one the city counts
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AEE Law · Data Report · NYC · Data Year 2025
The Pedestrian Blind Spot
The whole analysis on one page: the plateau the city sat on, the injury toll behind the death count, the harm the sidewalk itself does, the borough map, and the provenance ledger behind every number.
Every number traced to a primary source. Free to read, download, and embed with credit.
What we found
The findings
NYPD collisions
119
pedestrians killed in 2025, statistically the same plateau as 2018. The Vision Zero decline stalled a decade ago.
Computed
77:1
pedestrians injured for every one killed in 2025 (9,134 injured, 119 killed). The metric the city celebrates is the smallest one in the file.
Computed
9,134
pedestrians injured in 2025, climbing every year since the 2020 low of 6,692. The injuries never went away.
Computed
Brooklyn
leads pedestrian deaths since 2020 (173), then Queens (114). The danger is the outer-borough arterial, not where the cameras are.
NYC 311
25,809
"Sidewalk Condition" complaints to 311 in 2025 alone. Harm from the sidewalk itself is in no Vision Zero number.
DOB NOW
67,408
sidewalk-shed filings since 2016. The scaffolding meant to protect, left standing for years.
We didn't design a finding. We counted it from New York's own records. NYPD logs the collisions, 311 logs the complaints, DOB logs the sheds. We pulled them, computed the rates the city does not publish, checked the math, and flagged what is the city's number and what is ours. We don't guess. We measure.
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Hurt as a pedestrian in New York?
If a vehicle struck you, or a broken sidewalk, an unsafe scaffold, or a shed left standing too long did, the law treats it as someone's responsibility. AEE Law has spent 37 years proving whose.