New York City logged 87 traffic fatalities in the first six months of 2025, matching the lowest half-year total since records began in 1910 and marking a 32% drop from the 128 deaths reported a year earlier, according to data released by the city’s Department of Transportation. The decline was broad-based: pedestrian deaths fell to 51 from 63, fatalities among riders of e-bikes and other motorized two-wheelers dropped to 20 from 33, and deaths of drivers or passengers declined to 15 from 29. Only one traditional cyclist was killed, down from three in the same period of 2024. Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez credited the gains to the decade-old Vision Zero program, expanded speed-camera coverage, targeted NYPD enforcement and redesigned intersections intended to improve visibility. All five boroughs recorded fewer deaths, with the Bronx and Queens posting the steepest declines. Rodriguez said the results show the city’s streets are “safer than ever,” while cautioning that further work is needed to eliminate traffic fatalities entirely.