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Many of the tweens and young teens in my neighborhood have babysitters, whether that’s a person or an Uber account. A local mom named Lisa tells me her seventh-grade son, let’s call him Lucas, travels by cab — about 40 blocks straight up the East Side — with her to get to school each day. A sitter typically picks him up in the afternoon. Ask Lisa why this level of supervision is required and she’ll tell you about crime and traffic deaths. “As long as he lets me take him to and from school, I’ll do it,” she says. Another parent, Jen, says her son, now 14, has similarly never ridden the subway alone and likely only knows his “way-ish” around the neighborhood without her. It’s a symbiotic kind of neurosis that she recognizes in other parents she knows: “Truthfully, I think some of it has to do with what’s going on in New York City,” she says of the New York Post of it all. “Some adults are hesitant to ride the subway and take buses as much as they used to, so that influences the kids.”
