Sarah Goodyear

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An article in Sunday's New York Times discussed the decline of stickball and other games on city streets:

This eye-opening map from the Sightline Institute's blog uses US Department of Energy figures to demonstrate how individual states stack up against nations from around the world in terms of greenhouse gas emissions from energy use. The figures are especially astonishing when you look at the population comparisons (which can be found in spreadsheet form here). Just a couple of examples: Arizona, with 5.6 million residents, produces comparable emissions to Nigeria, with 122.8 million. And 19.2 New Yorkers manage to produce as much as 68.1 million Turks. Overall the map represents a comparison of fewer than 300 million Americans to more than 1.5 billion people in the other nations listed.

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Congestion in Jackson Heights: The DOT needs some new ideas

On his frequent runs and bike rides around his Jackson Heights neighborhood and nearby Corona and Elmhurst, Will Sweeney recently started noticing something strange: a lot of license plates from North Carolina. Sweeney writes:

A view of 35th Ave. in Jackson Heights, part of the DOT's proposed one-way pair for the neighborhood

A third-grader was hit on her way to school here two weeks ago.

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