Some call the thoroughfare the pride of Harlem. But for Karen Owes, the boulevard named after Adam Clayton Powell Jr. represents something far more sinister. Ms. Owes, a mother of four, lives above a bar on West 138th Street in a second-floor apartment that overlooks the busy six-lane road bisecting the heart of Harlem. From her vantage point, she sees a boulevard of pain. Some of them linger in her memory. A neighbor, Peter, was hit by a car and killed while riding his bicycle about two years ago. His newsstand has been closed ever since, an aching reminder. A car hit an 11-year-old girl from her church a few weeks ago. The girl now watches praise dances from a pew, her leg encased in a cast. Ms. Owes has taken conspicuous precautions. She dresses her 8-year-old twin girls and her teenage son in vivid yellows, oranges continue
By late July, city officials said, a long-awaited bike-share program would arrive, adding a new public travel alternative to the city’s streets. But with only two weeks remaining to accomplish that goal, the city acknowledged on Monday that the program, Citi Bike, would not begin as scheduled. “We’re working on the launch plan and will update the public as soon as we finalize all the details,” said Seth Solomonow, a spokesman for the Transportation Department, who confirmed the program would not begin in July. After advertising a July start date since the spring, the city had begun to hedge in recent days. On Friday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was asked during a radio interview if he knew when the program would begin. “Not yet, still working, trying to get it done,” he said. “With any big system there’s always things that you’ve got to make sure continue
Technology aimed at preventing the deaths of children in hot vehicles is no substitute for careful care giving, federal officials said Monday, describing some products being sold as “unreliable.” A study released on Monday examined products designed to stop children up to age 2 from being left in parked closed vehicles. At least 527 children — more than half of them under 2 — have died in those circumstances since 1998, according to the report, which was done jointly by the Department of Transportation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “There should never be any notion of a single absolute perfect solution,” said David L. Strickland, administrator for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, warning that too much reliance on technology could potentially contribute to a false sense of security. While these devices are very well intended and continue
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