Slow down, New York City drivers! The new public school year starts Thursday and the city's speed camera program is at full, expanded capability to try to improve street safety. The school zone speed camera program in NYC, on the brink of extinction a year ago, has been increased almost 10-fold since 2018. It now includes more than 2,000 cameras in 750 locations, up from 140 last summer, within a quarter mile of a school building entrance or exit. According to The New York Times, this gives New York City the largest urban network of automated speed cameras in the United States. The … [Read more...]
Guggenheim Art Museum Offers Family Friendly Programs, Memories
My 2-year-old daughter placed her head on my shoulder while I investigated every face in Picasso’s Le Moulin de la Galette. I explained to her that this painting was an earlier work by Picasso, before he began to create his own unique style. We stood while I chatted away about Moulin being Picasso’s first painting in Paris and the epicurean body languages of the painted figures over to Kandinsky’s Composition 8. I bent down and pointed at the geometric war taking place while circles provide warmth and calmness. With a quiet voice, I spoke about the circles within the painting and how they … [Read more...]
NYC School Buses to Get GPS so Parents Can Track Their Students
Disclosure: NYC Dads Group received compensation from Here Comes the Bus for this post. The quotes from our City Dads Group parents are genuine. Many NYC moms and dads in November experienced one of a parents’ greatest fears: they couldn’t locate their children. An early-season snowstorm paralyzed afternoon traffic, leaving students taking school buses home stranded on the road for hours and making parents frantic. This was especially upsetting to those with special needs students or little ones without cell phones. As a result, the New York City Council in January approved several … [Read more...]
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