Mayor Mamdani Announces New “Office of Curb Management”

On Tuesday, April 7, 2026, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the creation of a new office within the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT), the “Office of Curb Management.” The new office will be responsible for curb policies stretching across the entirety of New York City’s streets, and aims to improve safety, reduce double parking, better manage competing demands of New Yorkers, and facilitate cooperation between various agencies on projects involving curb management. Here are the most prevalent curb-related incidents plaguing New Yorkers, which will hopefully be addressed by the new Office of Curb Management:

Pedestrian Accidents

One curb-related problem the city faces is pedestrians being struck by vehicles. According to NYC DOT statistics, over 10,000 pedestrian-vehicle accidents occur in NYC each year, leading to striking numbers of serious personal injuries and fatalities. NYC DOT reports that in 2025, 111 pedestrian fatalities occurred as a result of traffic accidents. One way the Office of Curb Management aims to alleviate this problem is to create more intersections with daylighting.

Daylighting is defined as “street design elements for enhancing visibility of cross traffic and pedestrians for motorists approaching an intersection” and often involves prohibiting parking adjacent to crosswalks. “Hardened daylighting” refers to the installation of physical barriers, such as planters, cement blocks, or bike racks at intersections.

"In the first nine months of 2024, there were 88 pedestrian fatalities as a result of traffic accidents. Of that total, 88% of pedestrian fatalities occurred at intersections with no daylighting at all, and 92% occurred at intersections with no hardened daylighting."

These numbers suggest that if the Office of Curb Management can implement daylighting at more crosswalks, the number of pedestrian accidents that occur in NYC should drastically decrease.

Bicycle Accidents

Another curb-related problem the New York City faces is the high number of bicycle-related accidents in recent years. While the number of bicyclist fatalities in NYC has consistently decreased from year to year since 2023, the number of serious injuries sustained by bicyclists in NYC during that same period has consistently risen. In 2025, alone, there were 356 incidents of bicyclists sustaining serious (or life-altering) injuries in accidents.

By far, bicyclist inattention or distraction was the most common cause of bicyclist accidents in NYC, accounting for just over 30% of NYC bicyclist crashes during the 2024-2025 period. As we move closer to the summer months, it is important to note that on average, over a third of the injuries sustained by bicyclists in NYC annually, and over a third of the fatalities sustained by bicyclists in NYC annually, occur in the summer. With that in mind, it is important to be prepared should you or a loved one fall victim to a bicycle accident.

What to Do After an Accident

If you or a loved one is involved in a bicycle or pedestrian-vehicle accident, the very first step should be to seek immediate medical attention. Even if you are not in pain, you may have injuries resulting from the accident that only present with symptoms later on, and it is important for your health to address those as soon as possible. Secondarily, it is also very important to take steps to obtain and preserve key evidence by reporting the incident to law enforcement, and taking photographs of the accident site, your injuries, witness information and any hazardous conditions that may have caused the accident to occur.