Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Children

TLC Won’t Say If Any Cab Drivers Have Lost Licenses Under Cooper’s Law

By Brad Aaron | Feb 25, 2016 | 1 Comment

Streetsblog has filed a freedom of information request for data on how many times the Taxi and Limousine Commission has permanently revoked TLC licenses of cab drivers for injuring and killing people since the adoption of Cooper’s Law. The request follows several unsuccessful attempts to obtain the data from the TLC. Cooper’s Law gives the […]

Years After Death of Ariel Russo, NYPD Chases Still Injuring and Killing People

By Brad Aaron | Feb 22, 2016 | 1 Comment

Last week Franklin Reyes was sentenced to three to nine years in prison for the death of 4-year-old Ariel Russo. Police pulled Reyes over on W. 89th Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues, on June 4, 2013, after he drove his family’s pick-up truck across several lanes to make a turn. As officers walked toward the […]

4 Things Schools Can Do to Reduce the Asthma Threat From Idling Cars

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 17, 2016 | No Comments

Lately, American schools have been pretty responsive to public health and safety threats facing children. Witness the rise of peanut butter bans or the dwindling number of vending machines in schools. But schools haven’t been very successful at tackling what is arguably a much bigger threat to children’s health: air pollution caused by driving. Asthma is the most […]

Eyes on the Street: DIY School Zone Traffic-Calming in Corona

By Brad Aaron | Feb 9, 2016 | 3 Comments

Today Transportation Alternatives staff and members of Families for Safe Streets are in Albany, asking legislators to allow NYC to install speed enforcement cameras near every school in the city. This example of a crossing guard’s efforts to defend school kids in Queens, courtesy of Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson Jr., is another good illustration of why the state should lift arbitrary […]

Eyes on the Street: Just Another Brush With Death at a Typical NYC Crossing

By Brad Aaron | Jan 8, 2016 | 33 Comments

The design of 29th Street and 39th Avenue in Long Island City is typical of thousands of New York City crossings: an intersection of relatively narrow streets where drivers are allowed to park to the edge of crosswalks with no design elements to force motorists to slow down. The combination of poor visibility and lack of traffic-calming features […]

Will the New “Free Range Kids Law” Protect Parents Who Let Kids Walk?

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 5, 2016 | No Comments

Last spring, Alexander and Danielle Meitiv became public faces of the “Free Range Kids” movement when their children were picked up by police in Silver Spring, Maryland, while walking home from a local park. The sight of a 10-year-old and a 6-year-old unsupervised prompted police to open a child neglect case against the couple. The investigation was dropped […]

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