https://www.pitara.com/tags/new-york-city/Recent content in New York City on Pitara Kids NetworkHugoen-usSat, 13 Jun 2026 21:46:31 +0530https://www.pitara.com/fiction-for-kids/stories-for-kids/back-to-school/Sun, 21 Apr 2002 13:03:18 +0000https://www.pitara.com/fiction-for-kids/stories-for-kids/back-to-school/<p>The day I joined as a teacher at P.S 18 (Public School 18) in New York was a decisive day for me. I came from a small town in Buffalo and New York really awed me. My friend, who was teaching at a nearby institute, had warned me about the big bad city and the kids at my school.</p> <p>They were a hearty bunch of future hoodlums, he warned me. I laughed away his warning. My heart was full of hope at the thought of shaping the minds of tomorrow.</p>https://www.pitara.com/science-for-kids/planet-earth-for-kids/is-new-york-burning/Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:28:39 +0000https://www.pitara.com/science-for-kids/planet-earth-for-kids/is-new-york-burning/<p>In New York, people consume about 500 million kilowatt hours of energy per square kilometre every year. This is almost half of the total amount of solar energy (heat of the sun rays) falling on such an area in a year. So New Yorkers, in effect, live under a sun-and-a-half.</p> <p>In addition, paved areas, walls and the roofs of buildings absorb and re-radiate more heat than soil or plant-covered ground. Water runs off these surfaces more rapidly, allowing little cooling by evaporation. And the heat is produced by the bodies of the people themselves and leaks out of every building.</p>