To draw attention to some of the outstanding information already available on the NYRA website we are beginning an ongoing series of posts here on NYRA NYC where we will highlight one of these great resources once a week. No matter what else is going on with youth rights in NYC you can always count on finding something both interesting and useful when you visit us here. The first post in this series will be a semi-random selection from NYRA’s Youth Rights Library and will be posted in just a few short days on July 1st. Make sure to check back then.

A columnist for The New York Sun, Skenazy recently left her 9-year-old son, Izzy, at Bloomingdale’s in midtown Manhattan with a Metrocard for the subway, a subway map, $20, and told him she’d see him when he got back home. She wrote a column about it and has been amazed at the chord she struck among New Yorkers who remember being kids in those more innocent times.

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