NYC 'Daylighting' Will Remove Parking Near 1K Intersections A Year

NEW YORK CITY — More New York City intersections every year will see more life-saving daylight and fewer parking spaces, officials said.

The city will step up "daylighting" — elimination of parking to improve sight lines for pedestrians and motorists — to 1,000 intersections a year, Mayor Eric Adams announced Thursday.

He said another 1,000 intersections will see other upgrades, such as improved traffic signals and raised sidewalks that could stop traffic deaths.

"It is imperative that we take the right steps in the right directions to ensure that they stop," he said.

The announcement came just hours after a 3-year-old boy, Quintas Chen, was killed by a hit-and-run driver at a Queens intersection.

Danny Harris, executive director for Transportation Alternatives, pointed out the effort will daylight 2.5 percent of the city's 40,000 intersections.

"While this is a step forward, we need to bring these safe street improvements to every corner of our city," he said in a statement. "Our leaders need to treat traffic violence like what it is: a major public health crisis killing our children. New York City can do more and do better – and it must."