November 18: World Day of Remembrance, Safer Grand Army Plaza, Jobs at TA
We invite you to join us for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims at noon on Sunday, November 20 at Lincoln Terrace/Arthur Somers Park in Brooklyn.
Traffic violence has killed more than 200 people and injured over 40,000 people across New York City this year, and there were more children killed in the first nine months of 2022 than any full year under Vision Zero.
Every loss and every serious injury was preventable.
From now until Sunday, two billboards in Times Square, at Broadway and West 45th Street, will feature World Day of Remembrance. Our thanks to Paramount for their partnership in honoring Carling Mott, a Nickelodeon employee killed while riding her bike on the Upper East Side, and all those killed and injured from traffic violence.
At noon on Sunday, TA and Families for Safe Streets will gather at Lincoln Terrace/Arthur Somers Park in Brooklyn for the dedication of the new Memorial Grove for Victims of Traffic Violence. Join us in honoring the hundreds of lives lost this year and RSVP to the event here. Our Brooklyn Activist Committee will also lead a bike ride to the event starting at 10:50 a.m.
RSVP TO WORLD DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
THREE THINGS TO KNOW
1️⃣ Join our fight for safe streets. We are now hiring a communications director, as well as a Families for Safe Streets director and program manager. Read more about each position and apply on our careers page.
2️⃣ Our free activist training series returns in December! Your City, Your Voice is our weekly virtual training series, hosted by our organizing and communications staff, teaching key concepts in community organizing for all issue areas. The first training will take place on December 7 and TA will continue hosting weekly learning spaces on Wednesdays. Sign up for more details on upcoming trainings and receive the tools you need to change your community for the better.
3️⃣ In the news. Here's what we're reading this week:
In Sidewalk Talk: “The troubling tie between bigger cars and pedestrian deaths”
Streetsblog writes up a summary of DOT’s scooter share pilot program in the Bronx.
Brooklyn Magazine asks, “Could Grand Army Plaza Become a Car-Free Zone?”
TWO THINGS TO DO
1️⃣ Call for a Safer Grand Army Plaza. Want to transform Grand Army Plaza? Fill out a new DOT survey about how the public space in and around the plaza is used and sign our petition for a Safer Grand Army Plaza.
2️⃣ Register for our Spatial Equity NYC webinar. TA will host a public webinar to showcase our new tool, Spatial Equity NYC, at noon on Thursday, December 1. The demonstration will walk through how to use the site, what can be learned, and how this knowledge can be applied to inform policy, journalism, research, and advocacy.
ONE ACTION TO TAKE NOW
Donate to support TA’s transformative work. For our year-end fundraising campaign, a local foundation has pledged to match every dollar raised up to $600,000. Help us continue building safe, equitable streets in 2023 and make a donation today.
Thanks for reading! Have a great weekend,
Ted and the TA team
P.S. Check out our photos from last week’s RAISE the Greenway rally on Staten Island, and sign our petition to build a greenway along the North Shore.