Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Public Health

3 Peds Hit on 9th Ave. 2 Dead. Mayor Mike: Where Are You?

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 26, 2007 | 5 Comments

Like Third Avenue in Brooklyn, Manhattan’s Ninth Avenue is emerging as one of New York City’s new "Boulevards of Death." This afternoon, the Clinton / Hell’s Kitchen Pedestrian Safety Coalition, the community group that has been organizing the Ninth Avenue Renaissance project, broadcast the following news and call to action: Dear Neighbors Seventy-five percent of […]

Streetfilms: Intersection Intervention

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 23, 2007 | 1 Comment

Intersection InterventionA Clarence Eckerson StreetfilmRunning time: 3 minutes 56 seconds As people living in the neighborhoods around Downtown Brooklyn are learning the hard way, New York City government’s installation of pedestrian safety and traffic calming measures is remarkably slow and expensive. Even as children are dying while crossing the street in potentially preventable crashes, and […]

Why Wasn’t Traffic-Calming Built on Third Avenue?

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 21, 2007 | 2 Comments

DOT has gotten back to me with some answers. As Streetsblog reported Monday, New York City’s Department of Transportation failed to follow through on a 2004 pledge to build potentially life-saving pedestrian safety improvements along the Third Avenue corridor where a 4-year-old boy was run over and killed last Tuesday. Streetsblog asked DOT why […]

Eyes on the Street: Snow Days

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 21, 2007 | 6 Comments

When there isn’t snow on the ground where does all the black stuff go? Photo courtesty of Gowanus Lounge.

Living Near Shops and Transit Makes New Yorkers Less Fat

By Jason Varone | Feb 15, 2007 | 12 Comments

A new Columbia University study published in the American Journal of Health Promotion, yet again, links livable streets to improved public health. The study reports: "There are relatively strong associations between built environment and Body Mass Index, even in population-dense New York City," said Andrew Rundle, Dr.P.H., lead study author and assistant professor of epidemiology […]

The Subway Should Be Free

By Aaron Donovan | Feb 9, 2007 | 32 Comments

George Haikalis of the Institute for Rational Urban Mobility, with microphone. Environmentalist Theodore W. Kheel, seated next to him, at far right, would reduce the subway fare to nothing. On December 23, 1943, the New York City subways carried more than 8 million people, said the labor relations arbitrator and environmentalist Theodore W. Kheel last night at […]

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