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America’s Most Toxic Car Ads: Child Endangerment Edition
In a rational world, a product that's routinely involved in the deaths and serious injuries of thousands of children every year would be immediately pulled from the market...or at least, maybe kids wouldn't be featured in hundreds of ads.
September 22, 2021
Op-Ed: Why Bad City Design is Failing Our Kids (And What to Do About It)
We need to change the way we think about kids and about our cities. We need to think of kids as full members of society and we need to design our neighborhoods for kids to have full, rich childhoods that let them grow into well-rounded members of our communities.
September 13, 2021
Americans Want Green School Buses, But Congress Sells Them Short
July 26, 2021
Open-Street Killjoys in Jackson Heights Tried To Silence the Circus
Opponents of the 34th Avenue space lash out at another activity for kids.
July 19, 2021
Opinion: Let the Schools Use the Streets
The city's opening of streets for restaurants provided a lifeline in the pandemic. The schools deserve no less.
August 6, 2020
Mayor to School Kids: You’re Expendable During a Pandemic
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.
August 3, 2020
Live from NY: It’s Andrew Yang On A Bike!
Here's one election cycle that Andrew Yang is winning.
October 21, 2019
Op-Ed: Treat Traffic Deaths Like the Measles
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.
June 5, 2019
Cars Get Police Protection at Rally for Full Travers Park Plan
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.
May 12, 2019
Five Weeks Later, Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez Hasn’t Charged the Driver Who Killed 4-Year-Old Luz Gonzalez and Left the Scene
More than 50,000 people have signed the "Justice for Luz Gonzalez" petition.
July 30, 2018
