Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Public Health

World Cities Adding One Million People Every Week

By Jason Varone | Sep 13, 2007 | 2 Comments

Syndicated columnist Neal Peirce asks whether our planet will be able to absorb the population "mega-surge" currently underway in Africa, Asia and Latin America. From Common Dreams: The problem is that the global population base has increased so radically that even seemingly modest birthrates can have momentous consequences. Joel Cohen (head of the Laboratory of […]

Parallel Parking for Sociopaths

By Brad Aaron | Sep 11, 2007 | 10 Comments

Telecommunications giant Sprint recently launched an ad campaign called "Waitless," the gist of which seems to be that one of its plans allows customers unlimited calling two hours earlier than other companies do, thereby saving "four years of waiting over a lifetime." To illustrate the point, sort of, Sprint has a series of short spots depicting […]

Japanese Automakers Settle Pollution Suit

By Jason Varone | Sep 5, 2007 | No Comments

Companies have been routinely penalized for deceptive behavior regarding the safety of products like lead, asbestos and tobacco. The Japan Times reports on the latest public health menace to be challenged in courtrooms: The Tokyo High Court proposed Friday that seven automakers pay 1.2 billion yen to hundreds of asthma patients to settle a decade-long […]

Safety City: Where Cars Rule!

By Brad Aaron | Sep 4, 2007 | 15 Comments

As part of our back to school coverage, and in light of news from the past week, we thought it would be a good time to report on programs aimed at keeping kids safe on city streets. In addition to its ever-so-slowly evolving Safe Routes to School effort (three years in, improvements are soon expected […]

City Promises $5M in Ped Safety Improvements at Mural Opening

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 31, 2007 | 13 Comments

The mother and grandfather of James Rice. With weeping family members and the ghostly, smiling images of three boys watching over them, city officials and elected representatives joined 100 community members on a Brooklyn street corner Tuesday evening to pledge "Not one more death." State Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Assembly member Joan Millman and representatives […]

Central Park 66th Street Transverse Is Unsafe

By Glenn McAnanama | Aug 22, 2007 | 11 Comments

A Streetsblog reader brings us an update on the case of the cyclist killed last December in the Central Park Transverse, through information obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request. In the documents sent to Streetsblog, it shows that the motor vehicle "struck the bicyclist as both vehicles attempted to merge into the same path […]

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