Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Public Health

Driving: Teenage America’s Deadliest Preventable Epidemic

By Brad Aaron | Dec 12, 2007 | 19 Comments

A 17-year-old driver killed two in this recent Queens crash. Automobile crashes are the number one killer of teenagers in the United States, with nearly 6,000 deaths a year for the past decade, and more than 300,000 injuries annually. Yet millions of parents continue to let their kids drive unsupervised, many of them counting on […]

Crashstat 2.0 Reveals NYC’S Most Dangerous Intersections

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 4, 2007 | 9 Comments

Crashstat shows Fordham Rd. in the Bronx to be one of the most dangerous streets in New York City. For years, Livable Streets advocates have pushed New York City government to make citywide pedestrian and cyclist crash data more accessible to help civic groups and policy makers make more intelligent street design improvement decisions. Rather […]

Ciclovía: A Moving Experience in Bogotá, Colombia

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Dec 3, 2007 | 37 Comments

Recently, I had the opportunity to travel with comrades Karla Quintero of Transportation Alternatives and Streetsblog editor Aaron Naparstek to Bogotá, Colombia to document some of the amazing advances going on in the livable streets movement there. We spent an entire Sunday, from 5am ’til nearly 5pm, riding bicycles around during Ciclovía, […]

For Victim’s Family, a $10 Fee and an Agonizing Wait

By Brad Aaron | Nov 29, 2007 | No Comments

In the weeks since their daughter lost her life on a Lower Manhattan street, Hope Miller’s parents have learned to be patient. On September 25, Miller was on her way to acting class when she was hit by a truck at the corner of Houston Street and Sixth Avenue. According to reports, Roger Smiley, 48, […]

Carrion Gets $30K Donation Following Yanks Walkway Deal

By Brad Aaron | Nov 29, 2007 | 1 Comment

The Village Voice is reporting that Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion received $30,000 in campaign contributions from a firm that scored a $5 million air rights agreement for a pedestrian bridge to the new Yankee Stadium. Last summer the city agreed to pay $5 million to construct part of a pedestrian walkway to the new […]

The Trafficist: An Interview With Randy Cohen

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Nov 27, 2007 | 12 Comments

"It seemed to me that what was significantly undermining the ordinary daily happiness and health and economic life of both me and my fellow New Yorkers was the private car." –– Randy Cohen, "The Ethicist" Open Planning Project Executive Director Mark Gorton recently interviewed New York Times Magazine’s "The Ethicist," Randy Cohen, on the […]

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