CITYWIDE — Last-mile delivery has been a boon to urban consumers, accelerating in New York City from 1.8 million to 2.3 million packages a day. But there’s been a tough price to pay for workers, according to Comptroller Brad Lander, who delivered a report on the steps of City Hall Monday, Nov. 17, called “Fast Shipping. Slow Justice: Traffic, Worker and Climate Hazards in Last Mile Delivery.”

The report used data from the Department of City Planning to look at the increased development of “last-mile” facilities for delivering packages to their final destinations throughout NYC. Some key findings included that over the last four years, the number of packages delivered every day in NYC accelerated by over 109%. This increase in demand meant that companies like Amazon and FedEx escalated t

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