ALIGN: The Alliance for a Greater New York has launched the Amazon Delivers Danger Map, an interactive ArcGIS StoryMap documenting street-safety citations associated with Amazon-related delivery vehicles across New York City.
The map is based on ALIGN’s review of city citation records for 637 license plates identified through the NYC Open Data idling-violation database as being associated with Amazon-related companies registered in Seattle. From July 2021 through June 2025, those vehicles received 14,210 citations for street-safety violations.
The citations included 3,602 for blocking bus lanes or transit access, 2,689 for obstructing curbs, 2,366 involving traffic and intersection safety, 2,162 for speeding in school zones, 2,051 for obstructing emergency-response access and 1,340 for blocking pedestrian or cyclist space.
“Amazon is notorious for their terrible working conditions, but New Yorkers deserve to know that their lives — and their kids’ lives — are in danger, too,” said Daisy Chung, ALIGN campaigns director. “Amazon’s business model relies on speed, not safety and this map is a wake-up call that our communities have become a casualty.”
The citations were issued in all 51 New York City Council districts, including communities across Brooklyn. The findings come as package deliveries have increased across the city, from about 1.8 million per day before the COVID-19 pandemic to 2.5 million per day in 2024, according to ALIGN.
The organization estimates that at least 1 million of those daily deliveries are handled by Amazon.
The map also examines working conditions in the last-mile delivery industry. Amazon uses third-party Delivery Service Partners, or DSPs, to employ many delivery drivers. ALIGN and labor groups argue that the subcontracting model can make it more difficult to hold companies accountable for working conditions and street-safety issues.
The launch comes as the New York City Council considers the Delivery Protection Act, Int. 518, sponsored by Council Member Tiffany Cabán. The legislation would establish licensing requirements for last-mile delivery warehouses and address employment and worker-protection standards.
The bill has 34 co-sponsors and has received support from Mayor Zohran Mamdani, labor organizations and transportation and environmental groups.
ALIGN’s map is intended to provide residents with a neighborhood-level view of delivery-related citations while the council considers legislation governing the city’s growing last-mile delivery industry.
