Hilda Cohen

Hilda Cohen is a NY State licensed architect specializing in building exteriors, zoning and historic preservation. With a background in urban design and environmental design. she currently serves as a Senior Associate at Matiz Architecture and Design, and manages projects for non profits and community institutions across the city under the motto: Inspired design that fosters individuality and builds community. 

For the past 15 years, Hilda has been a prominent advocate for safe streets and bicycling. Her focus is on promoting physical activity for kids and families while ensuring the safety of New York City streets for all age groups. Here are some of her notable initiatives: 

• Make Brooklyn Safer in (2013), a coalition of neighbors brought together by the death of a child on the sidewalk, killed by a reckless driver. Make Brooklyn Safer developed local street maps, with empirical and analytic data used to document unsafe locations across Brooklyn neighborhoods. These maps were used by city agencies as well as police precincts to pinpoint and document locations of needed improvements. 
• Kidical Mass NYC (2015) allowing kids to make NYC streets safer for everyone with bike rides, clinics and resources for kids and families who want to get around NYC by bike. 
• and most recently one of the co-founders of Bergen Bike Bus and BikeBus.nyc; A Bike Bus is a simple routine; creating a safe and fun way for kids and young adults to get to school by bike, on a weekly basis through the NYC DOE school year.  BikeBus.nyc shares resources for kids and their people to start their own bike bus. 
• StreetsPAC -  Hilda is a founding board member of StreetsPAC, a political action committee dedicated to electing public officials committed to improving the safety, mobility, and livability of New York City streets.