Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Public Health

Doubts About DOT Congestion Prescription in Jax Heights

By Sarah Goodyear | Oct 3, 2007 | 1 Comment

Community activists in Jackson Heights have been complaining about congestion at the corner at 73rd St. and 37th Ave. (right) for years. A major traffic study of the area is underway, but according to a DOT spokesman, the department didn’t want to wait to implement "short-term initiatives" that could ease the problem. Problem is, some […]

Vehicular Homicide Charge in Thomson Death

By Brad Aaron | Oct 2, 2007 | 12 Comments

The man who police arrested for hitting and killing 24-year-old Julia Thomson last weekend has been charged with vehicular homicide. According to the Daily News and the Post, police say Tenzing Bhutia, a 21-year-old Baruch College senior from Queens, knew he hit "something" with his father’s Mercedes, but did not stop. Thomson was struck […]

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 […]

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