Future Leaders Take on Task of “Reworking Newark”

Student interns at the Greater Newark Conservancy take a break from surveying the city for this photograph.

“We know what Newark looks like standing still, and we know that change is needed. With all the diversity in the city, it’s important that we try to work together. Let’s get it together—let’s move Newark.”

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Reworking Newark

Reworked Newark plans

Taking to the streets with cameras and imagination, 45 Newark high school interns participated in a two-day exercise with TSTC to re-envision downtown Newark as a “great place” for residents and visitors. The exercise is a result of an on-going partnership with the Greater Newark Conservancy’s Newark Youth Leadership Project. [...]

Traffic Calming and Community Empowerment, Year 2: Newark’s East Coast Greenway

High school students in the Newark Youth Leadership Project were asked if they knew someone who had been hit by a vehicle. This was their response.

“Who in this room personally knows someone who has been hit by a car?” Tri-State’s Zoe Baldwin asked a classroom of the 45 high school students interning [...]

In Newark, Community Empowerment via Traffic Calming

On Monday, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign conducted a walking tour with the Greater Newark Conservancy and 40 teenagers in its Newark Youth Leadership Program. Campaign staffers led the 1.5 mile walk from NJTransit’s Newark Broad Street station to the Rutgers campus, talking about pedestrian and cyclist safety and potential improvements to Newark streets.

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