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Streetfilms: First Graders Show Us How to Share the Road

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Dec 15, 2008 | No Comments

How’s this for understanding modal harmony? Livable Streets Education has been working with New York City students, encouraging them to explore and question the environments around their schools and in their neighborhoods — and to voice the changes they want to see on their streets. We recently asked first graders at P.S. 87 to give […]

Cartoon Tuesday: Livable Streets Lessons From P.S. 87

By Brad Aaron | Dec 2, 2008 | 2 Comments

This week’s ‘toon is a short Streetfilm of drawings from students at PS 87 on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where Kim Wiley-Schwartz of the Livable Streets Education program asked kindergarteners, "What would you do if there were no cars in the street?" Livable Streets Education encourages students to explore and question the environments around their […]

Streetfilms: Learning Bike Safety in the Schoolyard

By Ben Fried | Oct 24, 2008 | 7 Comments

Robin Urban Smith files this report from P.S. 76 in the Bronx, where students wrapped up a month-long bike safety course with a playground "rodeo" on Wednesday. This June, Michael Needham Jr., a fifth-grader at the school, lost his life after a speeding car hit him while he was riding with friends near the Allerton […]

It’s Elementary: Kids Offer Livable Streets Advice to 44

By Brad Aaron | Oct 20, 2008 | 3 Comments

As seen on this weekend’s Uptown Treasures tour: At the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Washington Heights, K-5 students from Hamilton Heights Academy and P.S. 28 (along with at least one parent or guardian) added a livable streets flavor to the "If I Were President" display.

CB12 Transpo Committee Avoids Action on Dyckman, Everything Else

By Brad Aaron | Oct 7, 2008 | 8 Comments

Proposed Dyckman Street redesign, presented by citizens to the CB12 Transpo Committee last February For the third time this year, residents of Inwood and Washington Heights Monday night presented the Community Board 12 Traffic and Transportation Committee with a vision for a traffic-calmed Dyckman Street. One with a separated bike lane connecting the Henry Hudson […]

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