Cars for Kids Might Kill Kars4Kids

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14 legal drama [Cars for Kids Might Kill Kars4Kids]( A 20-year legal dispute between the semi-infamous nonprofit and a similarly named rival came to a head this week. Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo Getty Images/belterz The billboards are unmistakable: “Kars-4-Kids” with two pink K’s in a child’s (or serial killer’s) scrawl. The jingle, haunting: 1-877-KARS-4-KIDS, K-A-R-S kars for kids. The earworm ubiquity of the New Jersey nonprofit, which sells donated cars and gives [some of]( the proceeds to charity, has come to torment Colin Weatherwax, chief executive of the Texas-based American Can! Cars for Kids, which also sells cars and donates the proceeds to charity. “It’s just super-important for us that we get our name,” Weatherwax told me of the litigation with “K4K” (he will not deign to use “Kars4Kids” in full). “People don’t know there are two.” This week, a panel of judges in Philadelphia heard the case. If they decide in Weatherwax’s favor, Kars4Kids may have to call itself something else. And ostensibly come up with a new song. [Continue reading »]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [An $8,500-a-Month, Influencer-‘Renovated’ Two-Bedroom Pretty in the Pines is leaving her Central Park West apartment, and its peel-and-stick moldings, behind.]( By Kim Velsey [First in Line at the MTA’s Memorabilia Sale Shopping for train doors, wooden benches, and subway signage in a south Brooklyn lot.]( By Emma Alpern [‘It’s a Tyranny of Mike’ A Crown Heights building Facebook group has descended into drama.]( By Adriane Quinlan [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( [Sign up to get The Listings Edit](, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved