Posted on February 20, 2014 by Sarah Goodyear in The Atlantic Cities The Atlantic Cities, By Sarah Goodyear 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.