--- title: "Watch This Guy Hit 240 Consecutive Green Traffic Lights in NYC" description: "Maybe city driving isn't all that bad after all—if you time things right." date: "2016-12-23" modified: "2016-12-23" authors: - name: "Aaron Brown" job_title: "Staff Editor" link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/aaron-brown" url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/6668/watch-this-guy-hit-240-consecutive-green-traffic-lights-in-nyc" categories: - "News" - "Watch This" tags: - "Infrastructure" - "NYC" --- # Watch This Guy Hit 240 Consecutive Green Traffic Lights in NYC ![]() *\www.thedrive.com* Between the careless taxis, the confused tourist drivers, the aggressive native motorists and the stupid, stupid, *stupid* pedestrians jumping out in front of cars, driving in New York City is generally considered to be a task sent directly from hell. Every now and again, however, you catch a break that makes you feel like you're in heaven—such as hitting a long string of uninterrupted green lights. Hit 20 in a row, it feels like an accomplishment. One man, though, made it through [240 green lights]() without the appearance of a single red. What a dream. A video uploaded to Shawn Swetsky's Vimeo channel last Saturday shows what appears to be a time-lapse clip of someone ripping all around New York City, and for most of the video, there isn't a red light in sight. As per the text cards in the clip, the drive occurred on December. 6 at around 3:30 a.m. According to the Vimeo video description, the driver behind the wheel is Noah Forman. If it wasn't clear, in the clip, Forman is going for a record attempt in the video. It's also probably worth noting that we have no idea what that record might actually be, or whether it's just a personal record he's gunning for, though that would be kind of weird. Oh, and in addition to the green-light racing, in the clip we see cameo appearances of some our favorite New York City landmarks: The 57th Street snowflake, the Washington Square Park arch, Herald Square, the Radio City Music Hall, and so on. Think of it as a quick spin around Christmas-time NYC. Check it out below. https://player.vimeo.com/video/196039784 ## Author Aaron was previously a contributing writer with Jalopnik and has also written for Business Insider covering cars. When he's not in the office writing the news, you'll probably find him thrashing a beater car around a RallyCross. ### Author social links [Instagram]() [Twitter]()