Alarming data reveals the chaos e-bike operators have brought to NYC during the past few years — even as Mayor Mamdani seeks to loosen police enforcement of reckless riders.
Hizzoner announced the city will end its crackdown on e-bike drivers on March 27 — a move critics slammed as disastrous for both pedestrians and riders.
Four people were fatally mowed down by e-bikes or e-scooters and at least 15 injured in 2025, an NYPD spokesperson told The Post.
Sixteen e-bikers died in crashes the same year, according to the city’s Department of Transportation.
Two pedestrians were killed and 78 were hurt in 2024, police said, and DOT data revealed that 17 riders were killed.
In 2023 two people died from being run over by the motorized bikes and 95 others were injured. This was the deadliest year for city cyclists since 1999 — 30 cyclists died, 23 of whom were on e-bikes.
E-bike crashes in general surged by 21.5% from 330 in 2024 to 401 in 2025, according to data collected by the office of Councilman Frank Moreno, a member of the Council’s Common Sense Caucus.
But the DOT said it doesn’t see e-bikes as a serious threat to pedestrians.
“E-bikes are involved in only a tiny fraction of pedestrian injuries every year,” a DOT spokesperson claimed, noting that 113 of 9,088 total pedestrian injuries — roughly 1.2% — were from e-bike crashes in 2025.
But Janet Schroeder, the co-founder and director of the NYC E-Vehicle Safety Alliance, said those statistics hardly reflect the reality of the situation.
“There are no accurate stats,” she told The Post. “Not even the cops know.”
With no license or license plate needed to drive them, she said it is difficult for wild, speeding drivers to be held accountable.
The NYCEVSA is a group of 1,500 New Yorkers who disagree with Mamdani’s vow to drop the penalty for minor traffic offenses from criminal to civil summonses for e-bikers.
Of the NYCEVSA’s members, 119 of them are victims of a thoughtless e-bike rider, and 113 of those incidents were allegedly hit and runs, according to the organization.
“Mayor Mamdani, in a statement on March 18, stated that he was ‘ensuring that cyclists and e-bike riders- are treated like others on the road,’” NYCEVSA wrote in a statement.
“If this was truly the case, the e-bikes would be required to have a license, registration, a visible plate, and carry insurance – they have none of the above, but should!”
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