Vital City | How to Make the Five Boroughs Better for Parents and Children

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To be a parent in New York City is simultaneously exhausting and exhilarating. And those of us who have chosen to stay in the city with children have made tradeoffs that are bewildering at best to people who don’t live in New York. About a year ago, an old friend came to visit from Kentucky, where he lives in a spacious home with his wife and four children. He walked into our 850-square-foot Brooklyn apartment with one bathroom — a home I share with my husband, two daughters and our dog, and he was stunned. “I am humbled by how you live,” he said. He spent the night on our couch. There is no guest bedroom. The challenges of living in New York as a family are legendary, and they mount the less income you have: small and expensive apartments, exorbitant childcare costs, demanding work schedules, a complex public education system with far too many poor-performing schools, and a public transit system that often requires caregivers to haul heavy and unwieldy strollers — or heavy and unwield

Smart investments are critical to the future of New York. To be a parent in New York City is simultaneously exhausting and exhilarating. And those of us who have chosen to stay in the city with children have made tradeoffs that are bewildering at best to people who don't live in New York. About a year ago, an old friend came to visit from Kentucky, where he lives in a spacious home with his wife and four children. He walked into our 850-square-foot Brooklyn apartment with one bathroom — a home I share with my husband, two daughters and our dog, and he was stunned. "I am humbled by how you live

Vital City | How to Make the Five Boroughs Better for Parents and Children

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