Opinion: Let the Schools Use the Streets
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The city's opening of streets for restaurants provided a lifeline in the pandemic. The schools deserve no less.
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Mayor to School Kids: You’re Expendable During a Pandemic
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Mayor de Blasio said on Monday that he's willing to sacrifice school-bound kids to more road carnage — temporarily, of course, because, you know, the pandemic.
Live from NY: It’s Andrew Yang On A Bike!
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Here's one election cycle that Andrew Yang is winning.
Op-Ed: Treat Traffic Deaths Like the Measles
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Mary Beth Kelly: As safe-streets advocate, I am constantly amazed at just how many New Yorkers remain blasé about the serial killer hiding in plain sight.
Cars Get Police Protection at Rally for Full Travers Park Plan
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Hundreds of Jackson Heights residents, and scores of children, angrily protested the continued use of 78th Street by a politically-connected car dealership that has halted plans for a long-promised block-long greenspace between 34th Avenue and deadly Northern Boulevard.
Hit-and-Run Driver Rams Child Riding Bike Near Queens Schools
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The victim, an 11-year-old boy, was hospitalized in stable condition. The crash occurred in an area that could have been covered by speed cameras, had Senate Republicans not killed the program.