...An eclectic mix of local Politics, Education, Community Affairs, Environment, History, Birding,Jamaica Bay, Ridgewood Reservoir, Forest Park, and other assorted items of interest... Concentrating on the Borough of Queens in New York City...and the neighborhoods of Ozone Park, Howard Beach, Woodhaven, Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park...and Community Boards 5, 6, 9 and 10...
Now, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will introduce a bill to outlaw the manufacture and sale of all drop-side cribs, and ban them from day-care centers and hotels. At least 32 infants and toddlers have been suffocated or strangled in these cribs since 2000.
Major retailers such as Wal-Mart and Babies-R-Us have already stopped selling them.
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