Vision Zero made white neighborhoods safer from cars. Black and Latino areas got worse.

Plus: How Mayor Adams lost a key battle and alienated allies [View this email in a browser.]( Gothamist relies on your support to make local news available to all. Not yet a member? [Consider donating and join today.]( [Vision Zero made NYC's white neighborhoods safer from cars, but not Black or Latino areas: Report]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: ☀️ Sunny and brisk this morning, with highs getting into the lower 40s later. It's Tuesday in New York City, where a new analysis found that traffic fatalities have fallen 16% under the Vision Zero street safety initiative — but most of the gains have been concentrated in majority white neighborhoods. The safe streets group Transportation Alternatives found that majority Latino neighborhoods saw a 30% increase in traffic fatalities when comparing the first five years of Vision Zero to the last five years, while majority Black neighborhoods saw a 13% increase in fatalities. Here's why advocates say [majority-non-white neighborhoods haven't received as many safety upgrades](. 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