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‘School Streets’ Program Withering, Parents Blame Lack of City Support
Boosters of the program say its unraveling is predictable, given the city provides few resources to participants and requires them to run their school streets themselves.
June 28, 2022
Thursday’s Headlines: We’ve Done it (Again!) Edition
Wednesday night was Jesse Coburn's night, as Streetsblog's investigative reporter (above) collected his award from the Silurians Press Club for his investigation into the NYPD's poor (and downright corrupt) response to 311 calls about reckless driving. Plus other news.
June 16, 2022
Mayor Adams on Dangerous School Streets: ‘We Need to Do More’
Adams was short on specifics about what he thinks the city should do to better protect children outside schools, but he said he was open to ideas.
June 15, 2022
Outraged Lawmakers and Advocates Urge City Action over Unsafe School Streets
Moving beyond thoughts and prayers to action.
June 1, 2022
DOT Commissioner: City Must Do More to Keep Kids Safe from Cars Outside Schools
Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez's comments are the first from a high-ranking city official in the wake of Streetsblog's investigation into the dangers of school streets.
May 27, 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
Anatomy of a Sausage: How a Great Bill Got Gutted in Albany’s Mediocrity Factory
The result, though, is a watered-down bill that shelved tools to rein in reckless drivers that its sponsors Sen. Andrew Gounardes and Assembly Member Deborah Glick said would be transformative.
May 23, 2022
Analysis: New York’s Speed Cameras Aren’t Racist — But the City’s Road Design Is
Speed cameras are not disproportionately concentrated in low-income communities of color, despite a pervasive belief that the cameras are a money-making ploy that unfairly target Black and Brown neighborhoods, a Streetsblog analysis reveals.
February 14, 2022
Death Threats Follow Brooklyn Man’s Illegal Parking Complaints to 311 and the NYPD
The calls were by far the most extreme of any documented by Streetsblog in its investigation of 311.
February 9, 2022
WHAT IS TO BE DONE? Experts Discuss Subway Crime, Death, Homelessness
"There will be a humanitarian crisis until we pay to solve it," said one activist.
January 26, 2022
