Daylighting is a term with very specific meanings. For livable streets advocates, daylighting is about making intersections safer for pedestrians. NY State actually requires a form of universal daylighting, by prohibiting parking "within 20 feet of a cross walk at an intersection"—basically one car length. But here's the bonkers thing: NYC uses its "home rule" authority to exempt itself from implementing this proven street safety tactic.

There's something profound happening in Upper Manhattan that will change—for the better—the way every New Yorker experiences our streets. The Department of Sanitation has been implementing a trash containerization pilot program intended to get those piles of leaky, smelly, plastic garbage bags off of sidewalks and into containers in the street. And it's working!

What this parent-led effort can teach us about childhood independence, transportation equity, and building community by taking action.

Join Streetopia tonight at CB9 to speak in support trash containerization in NYC! The trash containerization pilot recently rolled out in Upper Manhattan replaces a handful of free car parking spaces that benefit a few people with covered trash receptacles that serve the entire neighborhood, keeping the sidewalks clear and the rats away.

For too many students in NYC the school commute is unnecessarily chaotic, stressful, and dangerous. We think there’s a better way.