Alissa Walker
Alissa Walker
I'm a writer and a walker in LA. Words @Curbed / @NYMag. Co-host @theLApod. LAUSD mom. She/her. #CancelRent #PeoplesTransit #HousekeysNotHandcuffsSource
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Top 10 Best Supplements For Busy Moms

Top 10 Best Supplements For Busy Moms

XREADY TO PURSUE A HEALTHIER YOU FROM INSIDE OUT?START 7 DAY FREE TRIALShop The Top 10 Best Supplements For Busy Moms Post HERE: Shacket // Leggings // Earrings // Sunglasses // Boots // BeanieKeep reading to see the best supplements for busy moms!Photos by Mary Kate SteeleIf y’all have followed me for very long, you know that I am passionate about sharing the best supplements for busy moms. As a busy mom of two little boys, I make it a priority to fuel my body with healthy foods, plenty of water, and of course- supplements!Hear me say that I know the word ‘supplements’ can sometimes...

January 12, 2022
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Did New York City just give up on public transit?

Did New York City just give up on public transit?

In the five months since Andy Byford as New York City Transit chief, the U.S.’s largest transportation system has undergone an due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Ridership has plummeted. Budgets have been decimated. And, in that short time, a two-tier transportation system has emerged, where the wealthy continue to work from home or commute in private cars, while .As Byford says a firm goodbye to New York—as of today, he’s —his departure stings on a symbolic level. With Train Daddy leaving the station, the slim hope that, in the wake of this crisis, the city would somehow prioritize...

May 27, 2020
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Last Night in Echo Park

Last Night in Echo Park

Every product is independently selected by editors. Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.For the past three months, Echo Park Lake had become a refuge for Zachary Coughlin and Karissa DeAngelis. After sleeping on cold, unyielding sidewalks, the couple had experienced relatively peaceful nights here among a community of about 100 people who had pitched tents on the grass along the park paths, sharing their mornings with joggers making loops around the water, street vendors prepping ingredients under rainbow umbrellas, and toddlers ambling towards the playground....

March 26, 2021
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Don’t Hold the Oscars at Union Station

Don’t Hold the Oscars at Union Station

Every product is independently selected by editors. Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.The biggest Los Angeles secret outsiders don’t know is that the Oscars are . Every year, millions of viewers around the world watch as celebrities walk down the middle of a street and into a standard-issue shopping center, past a Hard Rock Cafe and a M.A.C Cosmetics store, to their seats. It’s a lot of work to de-street and de-mall the entire environment just to erect a red carpet, which is why, every year, the Oscars fence off a protective orb around Hollywood and Highland,...

March 17, 2021
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What Is New York City Getting From the American Rescue Plan?

What Is New York City Getting From the American Rescue Plan?

Every product is independently selected by editors. Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.President Joe Biden has the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, the third pandemic-era stimulus and, potentially, one of the most consequential economic packages in U.S. history. Passed by Congress last night — without a single vote from a Republican — the plan includes including direct payments to most Americans, new financial support for families, and enough money to supercharge vaccine delivery to every corner of the country. And it also includes billions of dollars that...

March 11, 2021
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Here’s a Handsome Solution to New York’s Bike-Parking Crisis

Here’s a Handsome Solution to New York’s Bike-Parking Crisis

Every product is independently selected by editors. Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Shabazz Stuart has done the math. New York City might be in the midst of a pandemic-fed bike boom — cyclist counts over the East River were in November 2020 than one year before — but there’s barely anywhere to park those bikes. That creates huge barriers in a city where reports having had a bike stolen. “If we want to achieve 30 percent mode-share on bikes and scooters, we have to take parking seriously,” Stuart tells Curbed. “There are three million free parking spaces for...

February 12, 2021
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Social Workers Instead of Police? Denver’s 911 Experiment Is a Promising Start

Social Workers Instead of Police? Denver’s 911 Experiment Is a Promising Start

Every product is independently selected by editors. Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.A 911 dispatch looks about the same no matter where you are in the U.S.: sirens, strobe lights atop police cruisers, and first responders armed with guns and pepper spray, the reason for the call notwithstanding. But if you dial 911 in Denver, you might be greeted instead by a mental-health clinician and a paramedic driving a customized van equipped with food, water, and blankets. For the past six months, the city’s Support Team Assisted Response program, known as STAR, has...

March 10, 2021
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L.A. Doesn’t Need to Save Every Unremarkable Little Building

L.A. Doesn’t Need to Save Every Unremarkable Little Building

Every product is independently selected by editors. Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.As Sunset Boulevard curves towards downtown Los Angeles, Taix French Restaurant sticks out like an anomaly amid the strip malls, a single-story green-and-cream French chateau festooned with gabled roofs, half-timbering, and clinker bricks. At a meeting of L.A.’s cultural-heritage commission last month, two historians dramatically recounted these Francophone flourishes in great detail, emphasizing French pronunciations like porte-cochère, and noting that, in addition to this...

January 26, 2021
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Now That an Urban Planner Is on the City Council, Can She Help Fix Los Angeles?

Now That an Urban Planner Is on the City Council, Can She Help Fix Los Angeles?

Every product is independently selected by editors. Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.Nithya Raman hasn’t even been sworn in as a Los Angeles city councilmember, but her election earlier this month has already had ripple effects. L.A.’s council districts are gargantuan — just 15 people represent almost 4 million residents — and Raman’s Fourth District splays back and forth over the Hollywood Hills, a series of irregular polygons delineating a handful of L.A.’s wealthiest neighborhoods. Winning the district has traditionally meant pandering to some of the city’s...

December 1, 2020
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Cuomo’s Plan to Put 4,000 Cops in NYC Restaurants Is Dangerous

Cuomo’s Plan to Put 4,000 Cops in NYC Restaurants Is Dangerous

Filed under:Nothing says health and safety like heavily armed city employees notorious for not wearing masks.For the past few months, New York City has permitted diners to spill out of restaurants and onto curbs, transforming as restaurants try to stay afloat. Winter is coming, however, and there’s only so much of the year when most New Yorkers can comfortably sit outdoors, even under tents and heat lamps.But indoor dining is, clinically speaking, . Over the past six months, virologists have repeatedly demonstrated how efficiently COVID-19 leaps across tables when maskless people laugh and...

September 4, 2020
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