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We need your input on Benches: How to keep our seniors walking and healthy

by Team Chekpeds
Our Chelsea neighbor, Bob Arnold of Park Chelsea shared with us a city initiative called  “Make NYC Your Gym” a week long annual celebration of fitness in June launched by the Parks department and the Health Department with Expanded BeFitNYC   … Read more “We need your input on Benches: How to keep our seniors walking and healthy”
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Join Us : Pedestrian Safety, Reclaiming Streets and Benches

by Team Chekpeds
The agenda of the next CB4 Transportation Committe is full of exciting pedestrian initiatives: Dyer Avenue Proposed Layout re W, 34th-35th Streets, a once in 50 years opportunity to reclaim road space form cars and convert it into green pedestrian… Read more “Join Us : Pedestrian Safety, Reclaiming Streets and Benches”
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Success! Bloomberg launches Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge

by Team Chekpeds
This  week Mayor Bloomberg announced the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge, a competition to rally urban designers, planners, technologists and policy experts to create physical and virtual prototypes that imagine the future of New York City’s public pay telephones. The goal… Read more “Success! Bloomberg launches Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge”
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CB4 to DoiTT: Many payphones are inappropriate to preserve beyond the current franchise

by Team Chekpeds
Manhattan Community Board gave the Department of Information Technology  its preferences for the RFI under way for a future phone booths.  The current franchise contract expires in 2014. Many neighbors showed up at the committee hearings to speak of installations… Read more “CB4 to DoiTT: Many payphones are inappropriate to preserve beyond the current franchise”
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2010: After five years of activism, we are grateful for a safer year for pedestrians

by Team Chekpeds
At its December meeting, CHEKPEDS board took stock of the year’s accomplishments. We have much to celebrate in addition to our fifth year anniversary: safety improvements such as the safe route for seniors project in Hell’s Kitchen , DOT’s publication… Read more “2010: After five years of activism, we are grateful for a safer year for pedestrians”