WORD FROM THE CURB: street safety is important to Sunset Park in this year's NYC mayoral election

This election year, we're going to neighborhoods to talk to locals, community leaders and stakeholders about the issues they think are important, and find out what changes THEY want to see from City Hall. 

We’re calling it WORD FROM THE CURB.

Third Avenue is one of the busiest and most dangerous arteries in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Passenger cars, huge tractor trailers and bikes fight their way through the intersection of 60th Street and Third Avenue below the rumbling Gowanus Expressway – while streams of pedestrians attempt to cross.

WNYC's Senior Politics Reporter Brigid Bergin and Transportation Reporter Stephen Nessen joined WNYC's Sean Carlson more about how important street safety is during this year's mayoral election.