The Upper West Side’s Zone of Pedestrian Death

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On the morning of January 15, Kwon was crossing Amsterdam Avenue at West 96th Street, a block from our apartment building, when a driver in the center lane slammed into her with his Mercedes. The impact did enough damage that she died in the hospital a few hours later. Drivers often complain about the reckless, distracted pedestrians who put them at risk of committing unintentional violence, but if Kwon owned a phone, I never saw it, and she certainly wasn’t up to dashing into traffic.

I have lived long enough in this Bermuda Triangle of pedestrian death to remember some of its other victims. I recall with especially venomous intensity the mid-January week in 2014 when a 73-year-old antiquarian, Alexander Shear, was killed by a tour bus on 96th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam.and two blocks away, a third-grader named Cooper Stock was crossing West End Avenue at 97th Street , holding his father’s hand, when a cab driver whipped around the corner and crushed him to death.

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