Mothers make stand for safer street
Posted
1964
Pram protest
Thirty women with baby strollers blocked traffic along Van Cortlandt Parkway West for 40 minutes in May 1964, to draw attention to a dangerous intersection. The women demanded the installation of a traffic signal at the site of a serious traffic accident that ended in the death of a woman a week earlier.
A boy riding a bicycle had been killed at the location a year before.
Other events were also unsettling, if for completely different reasons.
Manhattan College opened up its physics lab with a "hot" reactor. Officially called it the "first sustaining or hot nuclear reactor in New York City." The lab opened up in April.
