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How Much Does DOT Spend to Keep Kids Safe Outside of Schools? The Agency Won’t Say.
The Department of Transportation frequently touts the effort it makes to improve street safety for kids, yet the agency doesn't know — or simply won't say — how much money it spends on projects or salaries devoted exclusively to safety around schools.
January 25, 2023
Thursday’s Headlines: Support for School Streets Edition
The parent company of Streetsblog wants to help communities make their school house streets safer by creating the first-ever "School Streets Toolkit," plus a webinar next week. Plus other news.
January 19, 2023
Traffic from Car-Driving Charter School Parents Vexes Upper Manhattan; City Provides No Oversight
And it is about to get worse as two new charters are planning to open in the area.
November 1, 2022
Department of Education Kicks Streetsblog out of Media Event Instead of Answering Question on School Street Safety
The agency's months of silence on the dangers children face walking to and from school continued on Thursday, with the department actually kicking a Streetsblog reporter out of a media event after the reporter tried to ask the schools chancellor a question — a move that one parent said was "deplorable."
September 29, 2022
UH, THANKS: City Will Turn a Dead-End Block into a Plaza … But Only When Placarded Teachers Go on Recess
School's out for summer — but will a play street remain when teachers come back?
June 14, 2022
Friday’s Headlines: What is School Safety Edition
Schools Chancellor David Banks didn't talk about street safety in a forum on school safety. Plus other news.
June 10, 2022
Tuesday’s Headlines: School Zones Don’t Have to be Danger Zones Edition
Our big story today is investigative reporter Jesse Coburn's six-month investigation into roadways around city school buildings (hint: kids are uniquely endangered). Check it out, plus all the other news.
May 24, 2022
‘ALWAYS SCARED’: Dangerous Streets Outside City Schools Threaten Children
A six-month Streetsblog investigation found that streets near schools are uniquely dangerous, with rates of crashes and injuries that exceed city averages — particularly near schools where most students are poor or children of color.
May 24, 2022
Pols Want Every Kid in NYC to Learn How to Ride a Bike
Learning to ride a bike in New York should be like riding a bike!
April 29, 2022
Opinion: To Avoid a COVID Resurgence, Mayor de Blasio Must Create Open Streets for Schools
Taking our schools outdoors should not be a revolutionary idea, after our year-long dining experiment. Yet the city has been sluggish at best about moving schools into outdoor space, let alone streets.
September 9, 2021
