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If a 6-Year-Old Can Help His City, Why Can't You?

An early candidate for the feel-good urban story of the year.
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Bob Gore

Blake Ansari is only six-years-old, but he's already done something to make his city better.

The first-grader, who attends the Metropolitan Montessori School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, had been thinking this winter about other kids in his city, kids who didn’t have the kind of life he has. Homeless kids.