Cars are making our city dangerous and miserable for kids. In New York City, cars have killed more than one hundred children since 2014. Today, there are more cars on our roads than ever, and those cars are bigger, heavier, and more dangerous than in the past.

And even when our kids survive their encounters with cars, cars are making our lives worse. We’re tired of craning our necks around cars to cross the street while pushing our strollers. We are sick with worry about our kids weaving through cars to cross the street to school. We know the connection between the overwhelming number of cars and trucks in our city and our kids’ asthma. We’re angry at seeing cars, major contributors to climate change, displace climate-smart transportation. And we’re frustrated seeing so much public space on the streets—our streets, spaces that belong to all of us—taken up by parked cars, when our children don’t have enough safe places to run and play.

Enough. We are building a different city for our children. One where our streets are filled with children’s laughter, not honking horns. Where our kids can bike and walk to school with ease. Where we all breathe cleaner air. Where we have created streets that uplift our city’s future, not run it over. We demand concrete changes to make our streets safe for the littlest New Yorkers.

Our message is simple: Kids Over Cars. Join us.