Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Public Health

Fresh Direct Responds to Environmental Critics

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 2, 2007 | 39 Comments

FreshDirect, the company that has built a grocery empire, in part, by using New York City’s free, public streets as their virtual warehouse, sent out an e-mail yesterday to let customers know of five new environmental initiatives the company is undertaking. While the company’s non-union truck drivers may still be double-parking, creating traffic congestion […]

Two Traffic Fatalities: One a Homicide, the Other an “Accident”

By Brad Aaron | Oct 1, 2007 | 34 Comments

Two people died in separate but similar motor vehicle crashes in the city over the weekend. The drivers accused of causing the deaths of Robert Pelicone, 22, and Julia Thomson, 24, were both speeding; both fled after their respective crashes; and both drivers were soon arrested and charged with DWI and leaving the scene. The […]

“Vision Zero”: Not One More Traffic Death

By Brad Aaron | Oct 1, 2007 | 8 Comments

Airline safety has improved dramatically in the last 10 years, after two 1996 crashes killed 375 people. “This is the golden age of safety, the safest period, in the safest mode, in the history of the world.” That’s Marion C. Blakey, former administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, speaking last month just before the end […]

StreetFilms: Park(ing) Day 2007

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 24, 2007 | 8 Comments

Clarence Eckerson may have set an all-time speed record for the production of this inspiring StreetFilm on Park(ing) Day 2007. It’s a good one. Seeing pre-schoolers participating in an outdoor music class — in a parking space — on Brooklyn’s busy Cortelyou Rd., you definitely get the feeling that Park(ing) Day has, in just a […]

Americans Growing Too Large for Their Cars

By Brad Aaron | Sep 19, 2007 | 9 Comments

The Cadillac XLR two-seater has a weight capacity of 362 pounds. Irony of ironies. It sounds like a plot line from "The Simpsons" — and, the fates willing, someday will be — but it seems Americans are growing too obese to be transported safely by many car models. USA Today has the skinny: The growing […]

A Gehl Dispatch From Down Under

By Brad Aaron | Sep 13, 2007 | 2 Comments

We reported yesterday that noted Danish urbanist Jan Gehl will soon be surveying New York streets with an eye toward improving them for human use. Gehl has been working in Sydney, Australia as of late, and an essay he wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald offers insight into what he may be looking for here in […]

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