Results: Can You Tell Me How To Get To Sesame Street?
Published on 05/03/2019
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We now finally know how to get to Sesame Street -- and it turns out it's just off the 1 train in Manhattan. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the pioneering children's show, 63rd Street and West Broadway has officially been renamed "Sesame Street." Mayor Bill de Blasio joined Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Elmo and others to make the big announcement on May 1st. Sesame Street has always been based out of 1900 Broadway -- between West 63rd and West 64th streets. The same street was named "Sesame Street" temporarily a decade ago in honor of the show's 40th anniversary, but this time, it's for good. Did you watch, or did/do your children or grandchildren watch Sesame Street?
I watched the show
61%
1134 votes
My children watched/watch
53%
981 votes
My grandchildren watched/watch
17%
322 votes
None of us do/did
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407 votes
Have never heard of the show
7%
139 votes
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This intersection also happens to be where the Sesame Workshop is located. Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit media and educational organization behind "Sesame Street," has a mission to help kids everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder. Besides the TV show, the organization is also responsible for a list of other endeavours. Which ones have you heard about?
Besides Sesame Street, it also was responsible for shows like The Electric Company, DragonTales, 3-2-1 Contact, and Pinky Dinky Doo
33%
622 votes
Helps fund initiatives that help children around the world, including breaking barriers with Sesame Street and Autism: See Amazing in All Children, delivering critical early education to a generation of children affected by conflict and supporting military parents and caregivers—because kids serve, too
20%
375 votes
As an educational media pioneer for 50 years, Sesame Learning translates their unique brand of joyful learning—and early childhood expertise—for caregivers, teachers, coaches, and school programs in the United States and around the world.
27%
510 votes
As a leader in research and innovation, Sesame Workshop has two funds set up to to advance the cause of digital learning, convening leading educators and media producers to put this research into action and help launch mission-aligned startups to nurture young business ideas
9%
171 votes
Theme parks -- Recently, a Sesame park became the world's first park designated as a Certified Autism Center
11%
206 votes
Sesame Street Live brings the unique and inclusive way of learning to children all over the world
26%
489 votes
Knew about all of these
12%
226 votes
None
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1026 votes
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In their mission to help children all over the world grow smarter, stronger and kinder, Sesame Street has evolved over the years itself. Always a show with a conscience, it has introduced topics and characters to help children understand the world better throughout the years. Here are just a few milestone story lines the show has touched on. Do you remember any of these from the show?
With "Bein' Green", Kermit started singing about his existential crisis — lamenting "blend[ing] in with so many ordinary things" but ultimately embracing his color — in 1970 during Sesame Street's first season.
27%
505 votes
In 1971, Sesame Street cast Sonia Manzano in television's first-ever Latina leading role, and she played the part until her 2015 retirement. And in 1983, the show introduced Rosita, its first Latina muppet, at another time when immigration from Mexico was a hot-button topic.
25%
462 votes
Sesame Street dealt with the very big, very grown-up concept of death in 1983 when Will Lee, the actor portraying Mr. Hooper died, the show dealt with his character's death to help children understand and deal with death
24%
445 votes
For nearly 15 years, wooly mammoth Snuffleupagus existed only as Big Bird's imaginary friends — until 1985, when real-world events inspired Sesame Street writers to make Snuffy visible to other characters, too. "In this day of child abuse, we felt it important for children to feel they could talk to adults and be believed," said executive producer Dulcy Singer. "We didn't want to do anything to discourage children from going to their parents."
22%
411 votes
In a 1993 episode, Gina has to explain racism to Telly Monster after someone calls to complain about her hanging with Savion. "Telly, there are just some really stupid people in the world who can't stand to see when people of different races are friends," she says. Because Sav's skin is brown and mine is white he thinks we shouldn't be friends.
9%
172 votes
Takalani Sesame, South Africa's version of the show, introduced the franchise's first HIV-positive character with the debut of Kami in 2002. Kami, whose name means "acceptance" in Setswana, has a vibrant personality and an energetic spirit, showing kids that people can live happy, full lives amid HIV diagnoses.
4%
80 votes
Cookie Monster stopped gobbling baked goods in 2005 when Sesame Workshop controversially reimagined the character as an advocate of healthy eating habits
15%
274 votes
The 2017 debut of Julia, a Muppet with autism, had special resonance for puppeteer Stacey Gordon: Her son has autism, too. "Had my son's friends been exposed to his behaviors through something that they had seen on TV before they experienced them in the classroom, they might not have been frightened. And [they] would have known that he plays in a different way, and that that's OK."
11%
203 votes
Remember all of these
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188 votes
None
43%
799 votes
Never watched the show
17%
322 votes
Sesame Street has a song that tells children that families all look differently, and it's OK to have two dads or two moms,
14%
265 votes
They introduced Alex, a Muppet whose father is in prison, to reach out to the estimated 2.7 million U.S. kids with a parent who's incarcerated.
5%
94 votes
In 2011, a puppet called Lily was introduced, who sometimes goes hungry because of her family's financial situation.
6%
111 votes
To address the divorce issue, Abby Cadabby, a character introduced in 2006, was the daughter of divorced parents
5%
91 votes
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