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City Budget Needs $20M For School Streets: Advocates
Advocates are pushing the mayor to make good on his campaign promise to fund and create universal open streets in front of schools.
June 17, 2026
Mamdani Will Create 50 ‘Soccer Streets’ During World Cup — Most on Existing School Streets
More than four dozen car-free school streets will be transformed into soccer fun zones, Mayor (and First Soccer Fan) Mamdani will announce later on Monday in The Bronx.
May 11, 2026
Mamdani Uses ‘Sammy’s Law’ To Reduce Speed Limits To 15 MPH At Schools, But Broader Implementation Is Stalled
By the end of this year, 800 more streets in front of public school buildings will get 15-mile-per-hour speed limits, bringing the citywide total to 1,300. It's a start.
March 16, 2026
Friday Video: Drool Over This London School Street
That's cricket! Check out how London transformed a roadway around a big stadium into a play street.
October 17, 2025
Brooklyn Parents Push for Paris-Style School Street
The streets outside a school should be for people, not cut-through traffic.
June 11, 2025
Friday Video: School Streetspalooza
Check out how great life can be if we just give kids the space to be kids.
November 15, 2024
More Safe School Streets Coming To NYC This Fall
A record number of school "open streets" will operate across the city when the school year starts next week, officials said.
August 29, 2024
Friday’s Headlines: More Lunch Consumption Edition
Streetfilms goes to Paris. Plus more news.
February 23, 2024
This Albanian City Should Inspire America to Go Big on ‘School Streets’
Streets near schools should be for kids — not cars. And this Albanian city is set to reimagine roads in front of all its learning centers.
January 5, 2024
‘A Very Dangerous Job’: Dozens of NYC School Crossing Guards Injured by Drivers Since 2012, Records Show
As thousands of guards returned to street corners across the city last week for the reopening of public schools, records obtained by Streetsblog reveal the dangers that guards face on the job.
September 11, 2023
