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The NYT has a piece today on an art project to memorialize pedestrian deaths.
Over the course of about 13 hours on Sunday, roughly a dozen people traveled by bicycle to 12 spots in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan and stenciled wings and roses at places where pedestrians or bicyclists had died in automobile collisions. READ MORE
The project was carried out by Right of Way and there are more photographs on their site.
I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.
As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.
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