{"id":67234,"date":"2025-12-10T21:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/67234\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:55:08","slug":"danger-in-the-crosswalks-5-staten-island-intersections-among-nycs-most-perilous-advocates-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/67234\/","title":{"rendered":"Danger in the crosswalks: 5 Staten Island intersections among NYC\u2019s most perilous, advocates warn"},"content":{"rendered":"

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Five Staten Island intersections were listed among the 118 most dangerous in New York City, according to crash data released Tuesday by safe-streets advocates \u2014 a tally that comes as the City Council weighs a controversial bill to improve intersection safety.<\/p>\n

Transportation Alternatives, a nonprofit that advocates for public transit and safer streets, released data on Tuesday highlighting the most dangerous intersections<\/a>. As indicated on its website, the nonprofit\u2019s mission is \u201cto reclaim New York City from cars, transforming our streets into safe, sustainable, and equitable places to walk, bike, take transit, gather, and thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to its data, there are 118 intersections where five or more New Yorkers have been killed or seriously injured since Jan. 1, 2022.<\/p>\n

\"TransportationThe intersection of Victory Boulevard and Clove Road in Sunnyside is one of the most dangerous intersections on Staten Island, according to data collected by Transportation Alternatives since Jan. 1, 2022. This photo shows the intersection on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025.(Advance\/SILive.com | Jan Somma-Hammel)<\/p>\n

While the intersection of Hunton Street and Richmond Road was deemed \u201cthe most dangerous obstructed intersection\u201d on Staten Island, the group identified a handful of crossroads where at least five people suffered injuries since the start of 2022.<\/p>\n

Here are the five most dangerous intersections on Staten Island, according to Transportation Alternatives:<\/p>\n

Victory Boulevard and Loop Road in Willowbrook: 8 fatalities\/serious injuriesVictory Boulevard and Canterbury Avenue in Willowbrook: 8 fatalities\/serious injuriesVictory Boulevard and Clove Road in Sunnyside: 8 fatalities\/serious injuriesHunton Street and Richmond Road in Dongan Hills: 7 fatalities\/serious injuriesGoethals Road North and South Avenue in Mariners Harbor: 6 fatalities\/serious injuries\"TransportationThe intersection of Victory Boulevard and Canterbury Avenue in Willowbrook is one of the most dangerous intersections on Staten Island, according to data collected by Transportation Alternatives since Jan. 1, 2022. This photo shows the intersection on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025.(Advance\/SILive.com | Jan Somma-Hammel)<\/p>\n

In New York, a \u201cserious injury\u201d includes death, dismemberment, significant disfigurement, fractures, and other conditions. It also includes injuries that prevent someone from doing their normal daily activities for at least 90 days within a 180-day period.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Transportation Alternatives told the Advance\/SILive.com that serious injury data is taken from the Department of Transportation; fatality data is tracked by the nonprofit and regularly cross-checked with the Department of Transportation and the NYPD.<\/p>\n

In February, the Advance\/SILive.com identified the 10 most dangerous intersections in the borough in 2024<\/a>. Those intersections were previously ranked by the number of reported vehicle collisions that resulted in at least one injury. The intersection of Victory Boulevard and Clove Road was the only junction highlighted by Transportation Alternatives that made the February ranking.<\/p>\n

\"TransportationThe intersection of Richmond Road and Hunton Street in Dongan Hills is one of the most dangerous intersections on Staten Island, according to data collected by Transportation Alternatives since Jan. 1, 2022. This photo shows the intersection on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025.(Advance\/SILive.com | Jan Somma-Hammel)The fate of universal daylighting<\/p>\n

This latest data from Transportation Alternatives comes as the City Council has less than two weeks left in this term to consider a bill that would require universal daylighting at every intersection<\/a> in the city.<\/p>\n

The bill in question, Intro 1138<\/a>, would ban parking within a certain distance of any intersection with a crosswalk \u2014 a process known as daylighting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t afford to wait any longer for safe intersections,\u201d said Ben Furnas, executive director at Transportation Alternatives. \u201cEvery day, over a million students go to schools across New York City, and every day they have to cross dangerous intersections. Speaker [Adrienne] Adams is sitting on legislation that could transform our city into one where it\u2019s safer for everyone to get around, but she needs to call the vote. It\u2019s time to decide: does she want her legacy to be obstruction and danger, or better and safer streets for children.\u201d<\/p>\n

There has yet to be a vote on the legislation since the introduction of the bill in December of 2024, as noted by Transportation Alternatives. In that time, over 1,800 New Yorkers have been killed or seriously injured at intersections, the nonprofit added.<\/p>\n

\"TransportationThe intersection of Goethals Road N and South Avenue in Mariners Harbor is one of the most dangerous intersections on Staten Island, according to data collected by Transportation Alternatives since Jan. 1, 2022.(Google)<\/p>\n

Those against the bill, such as Borough President Vito Fossella, argue that while daylighting may be necessary at certain intersections, applying it everywhere is a \u201cone-size-fits-all\u201d solution.<\/p>\n

Opponents have pointed out that the Department of Transportation already daylights problematic intersections on a case-by-case basis<\/a>, which is how they say the safety upgrades should be implemented.<\/p>\n

Of the intersections identified by Transportation Alternatives, Hunton Street and Richmond Road was the most dangerous intersection that could be subject to daylighting; the intersections ranked higher are either already daylit or ineligible for daylighting, a spokesperson for the nonprofit said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Five Staten Island intersections were listed among the 118 most dangerous in New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-67234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}