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(Photo by Carly Miller)It’s a sight so common on our streets that we often don’t notice: armies of school buses parked on residential blocks on nights and weekends — when commercial vehicles are normally banned. But for some neighbors, it’s more than an eyesore. Perpetual fleets of
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Photo via zhenry49 [https://www.instagram.com/p/BIs16nrjZTf/?tagged=schoolbuses&hl=en]As first reported by DNAInfo [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161027/red-hook/school-bus-strike-nyc] and other news outlets, roughly 900 city school bus drivers and attendants voted to authorize a strike Wednesday night after rejecting a proposed
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Photo by Mary BakijaAccording to the Home Reporter [http://homereporter.com/fdny-responds-to-flipped-school-bus-in-park-slope/], a yellow school bus flipped onto its side after being involved in a crash. The bus was reportedly struck by another vehicle. The crash happened at the intersection of 4th Avenue and 1st Street. Officials say the first
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With a large number of children with different levels of ability living in the neighborhood, there’s a need for greater awareness of how to support our kids in Ditmas Park – including not honking at special needs school buses, a parent recently wrote to us. Neighbor Christine Salerno, who lives
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Councilman David Greenfield (Source: Facebook)Councilman David Greenfield is looking to catch reckless drivers who dangerously swerve around school buses by employing Big Brother to help keep children safer. The New York Daily News is reporting [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/proposal-add-cameras-buses-catch-swerving-cars-article-1.1351011] that Greenfield proposed a plan that
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Source: Magnus Manske via FlickrFrom the office of Councilman David Greenfield: Councilman David G. Greenfield is blasting the New York City Department of Education for its failure to pay hundreds of employees for special education tutoring and classroom support services provided since the school year began. Councilman Greenfield is calling