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Articles by David Tipson
Comprehensive Planning is Not Just About Housing and Zoning
Rendering (photo: mayor's office) The City Council held a hearing this week on a bill to implement comprehensive long-term planning in New York City. With the right amendments, we think this legislation has the potential to foster a more equitable and rational planning process to guide land-use changes in New York City — one that will balance local and citywide needs. But comprehensive planning is about much more than land use.
Op-ed on Lefferts House by David Tipson and Kelly Bare
Appleseed’s executive director David Tipson and Kelly Bare penned an op-ed explaining how the current interpretive scheme at Lefferts Historic House Museum in the Children’s Corner of Prospect Park centers the white family that lived in the house to the exclusion of the sometimes more numerous enslaved Black people who also lived in the structure. Read the op-ed. Read Appleseed’s 2017 research memorandum with more details. Read Appleseed’s comments on the Draft Where We Live NYC plan (p.
A monument to racial hierarchy in Brooklyn: Prospect Park’s Lefferts Historic House Museum
By David Tipson and Kelly Bare New York Daily News | Sep 06, 2020 at 5:00 AM Peter Lefferts and his family, who oversaw the construction of the structure on a 240-acre farm around 1783, owned a significant portion of what we now call central Brooklyn and were one of the largest slaveholding clans in Kings County, breadbasket to New York City.
The white flight that wasn’t: New data reveal that Brooklyn school integration is working
By Brad Lander, Nyah Berg and David Tipson New York Daily News | Nov 14, 2019 | 2:27 PM Place of work of Super Intendent Francis De Stefano at Community School Board District 15 located at 360 Smith Street.
SDAG Releases Final Report with Bold Recommendations
Appleseed’s Matt Gonzales speaking for the SDAG at its August 27, 2019 press conference. After two years of work, the mayor’s School Diversity Advisory Group released its final report with bold and lucid recommendations for eliminating official policies causing segregation in New York City’s public schools. Read the report. Read the SDAG’s press release with a statement from Executive Director David Tipson. Read the article in Chalkbeat. SDAG Releases Final Report with Bold Recommendations
NYC's Segregation Was Carefully Planned. Its Integration Must Also Be.
HOLC A redlining map of Brooklyn. New York City is in the thick of a process to revise portions of its charter. As the 2019 Charter Revision Commission wrapped up a round of hearings earlier this month, one of the hotly debated issues was the need for a comprehensive planning process for New York City.
CityViews: Equitable Admission to High Schools Must Start with Middle School
Jellybean100 Getting through these doors depends on what door students walked through two or three years earlier. For seven months now Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to tweak admissions at New York City’s specialized high schools has fueled an acrimonious debate that has elevated some of the most divisive and pessimistic perspectives against diversity.
I want District 15's diversity plan to pass for my son, too
This spring, my part of Brooklyn quietly developed one of the most comprehensive and thoughtful school-integration plans we have seen in New York City. The new plan would mean that District 15 middle schools no longer screen for admission, a policy that has long excluded low-income, black, and Latino students from sought-after schools. Underserved students would receive admissions priority to facilitate their representation across all schools.
Segregation is Not an Excuse, Mr. Mayor; It’s Opportunity to Lead
(Photo via Ed Reed/Mayor's Office) Curbed NY recently reported that the vast majority of the affordable-housing units created under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Housing New York plan are unaffordable to large swaths of the population. The ironic response from New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) was that the policy promotes “diverse and integrated neighborhoods.” This explanation is puzzling, to say the least, for integration advocates.
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