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Guest Essay: Our first obligation is to our students
The opinions expressed here represent the views of the authors in their capacity as individual faculty members.
Transit wins with a Hudson Yards casino
New Yorkers depend on our subways, buses, and commuter rail lines to get to work, to shop, to meet friends and to visit friends and family. This amazing system costs money since it runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and it is more than 100 years old.
City Council’s appointments coup would wreck NYC’s mayoral accountability Original
Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a news conference at City Hall. AP New York’s City Council wants to weaken the powers of the mayor by requiring its approval for top mayoral appointees. This is a direct threat aimed at the very essence of what makes New York City work: mayoral accountability.
Please, please, please vote: Why this NYC mayoral race matters
New Yorkers care about their mayor, more than about their governor and their U.S. senators. They want a chief executive who will get things done by using the vast powers of the mayoralty. Electing mayors on the basis of good intentions does not work. And this year, the stakes demand an engaged citizenry that goes to the polls in large numbers to choose a candidate among eight major contenders on the ballot.
Public transportation and transmission of viral respiratory disease: Evidence from influenza deaths in 121 cities in the United States
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Renata E. Howland , Nicholas R. Cowan , Scarlett S. Wang , Mitchell L. Moss , Sherry Glied Renata E. Howland, Nicholas R. Cowan, Scarlett S. Wang, Mitchell L.
Don’t give up on NYC: Why the city can and will get through this rough patch, despite its leadership
This is no time to give up on New York City. Despite the nearly 24,000 deaths from COVID 19, an unemployment rate of 16%, and endless stories about New Yorkers moving to Florida and the suburbs, the future of America’s largest and most diverse city remains bright.
Kids have to go back to school: The racial achievement gap expands the longer students are out of class
By Mitchell Moss and Benjamin Heller New York Daily News | Jul 01, 2020 at 5:00 AM Get them back into class. (ShutterStock) Although criminal justice reform is at the top of New York City’s public agenda, new police policies on their own are not adequate to achieve racial justice. Consider how New York City’s failure to produce a strategy to restart public schools in September will set the city’s public school students back, especially the two-thirds who are African-American or Hispanic.
Slow the jail-building rush: Manhattan’s contribution to Rikers’ replacement project deserves more public input
By Mitchell Moss New York Daily News | Aug 27, 2019 | 5:00 AM More voices on the new municipal jail, please. (Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice) The City Council is considering a new municipal jail to be built on the border of Chinatown and Tribeca as part of Mayor de Blasio’s plan to close Rikers Island. What we know, based on the plan, is that the high-rise jail will be 45 stories and incorporate more than 1 million square feet.
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Abstract The twenty-first century is emerging as the century of the "super-commuter," a person who works in the central county of a given metropolitan area, but lives beyond the boundaries of that metropolitan area, commuting long distance by air, rail, car, bus, or a combination of modes. The super-commuter typically travels once or twice weekly for work, and is a rapidly growing part of our workforce.
Will the Rent Guidelines Board face up to reality?
Congress focuses on big issues, but in New York politics is about the here and now, and nothing is more real than rent. More than two-thirds of New Yorkers are renters, the opposite of most of the country. Nearly one million of the city's rental units are rent-stabilized and their rents are determined by the Rent Guidelines Board, which will make a preliminary decision tonight about the next increase for one- and two-year leases.
What to do about New York's retrenching retail sector
Retailing is going through a profound transformation across the nation. As more and more people shop online, suburban shopping malls have gone bankrupt and are now being converted into recreational facilities, warehouses and entertainment venues. Retailing in New York City—where the department store was pioneered—is facing its own challenges, as reflected in the vacancies on some of our premier shopping corridors including SoHo, Greenwich Village and Madison Avenue.
What to do next on congestion - and fixing the MTA
Gov. Cuomo and the state Legislature have finally found a new revenue source for the MTA: the app-based for-hire vehicles that serve more than 600,000 riders every day, most of them on the narrow island of Manhattan. These cars, along with taxis, will soon generate $400 million a year, which — when combined with new funds from the municipal treasury — will provide a nice pot with which to boost mass transit.
Ecce Cuomo
It’s hard to believe that Donald Trump and Mario Cuomo were raised less than three miles apart in Queens, New York. Their ethics and values highlight diametrically opposed approaches to government, politics, and even personal principles.
Opinion: Blame New York City for Trump
Only one person born and raised in New York City resident has been elected president of the United States during the past 100 years: Donald J. Trump. Most successful politicians from New York City — Al Smith, Tom Dewey, Nelson Rockefeller, Rudy Giuliani — failed when they ran for president. By contrast, Trump never made it in New York City’s business, cultural or civic world. From the moment of his birth in Queens, Trump was an outsider, the son of an outer borough real estate developer.
Blame New York for Donald Trump
Only one person born and raised in New York City has been elected president of the United States during the past 100 years: Donald J. Trump. Most successful politicians from New York City — Al Smith, Tom Dewey, Nelson Rockefeller, Rudy Giuliani — failed when they ran for president. By contrast, Donald Trump never made it in New York City’s business, cultural or civic world. From the moment of his birth in Queens, Trump was an outsider, the son of an outer borough real estate developer.
Transit mess was years in the making— now we must all chip in to fix it | Crain's New York Business
Joe Lhota is the right leader for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. He knows finance, politics and how to manage large organizations. But, as recently departed Knicks President Phil Jackson demonstrated, success requires a strong team, not just a great man. The MTA’s problems did not occur overnight. The decline of our subways took a long time to develop and will take a long time to cure. More than 20 years ago, then Gov.
Transit mess was years in the making— now we must all chip in to fix it | Crain's New York Business
Joe Lhota is the right leader for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. He knows finance, politics and how to manage large organizations. But, as recently departed Knicks President Phil Jackson demonstrated, success requires a strong team, not just a great man. The MTA’s problems did not occur overnight. The decline of our subways took a long time to develop and will take a long time to cure. More than 20 years ago, then Gov.
Getting from point A to point LGA
The Port Authority board of commissioners will decide the future of LaGuardia Airport when it meets Thursday. The airport, bounded by Bowery Bay and the Grand Central Parkway, simply does not have sufficient road capacity for the airport’s anticipated growth of an additional 6 million passengers a year by 2030. It is the only major airport on the East Coast without a rail connection, even though it is the airport closest to the office towers, medical centers and cultural institutions in Manhattan.
A Real Estate Developer Can Go Bankrupt. A President Can’t.
After the recent Brexit vote in Britain, Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, commented on the fallout: “I don’t want to have a plummeting pound. But if it does plummet, I do well.” Similarly, in 2006, before the collapse in the housing market, Mr. Trump said, “I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy.” Most Britons have retirement savings and college tuition in pounds.
A Real Estate Developer Can Go Bankrupt. A President Can’t.
After the recent Brexit vote in Britain, Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, commented on the fallout: “I don’t want to have a plummeting pound. But if it does plummet, I do well.” Similarly, in 2006, before the collapse in the housing market, Mr. Trump said, “I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy.” Most Britons have retirement savings and college tuition in pounds.
Forget romantic fantasies-rebuild Penn Station without uprooting the Garden
Penn Station may be the busiest transit hub in the western hemisphere, but its congested corridors and poorly connected concourses create a challenging experience for commuters. A solution is now in sight, building upon Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan to upgrade Penn Station and the Postal Service's historic Farley Building across Eighth Avenue to create a new Empire Station Complex. Proposals for this critical project were due April 22.
Brooklyn Has Fully Conquered New York
For the past quarter century, cities around the world have sought to replicate Silicon Valley, the region south of San Francisco where Google, Apple, Facebook and hundreds of high tech firms are based. But the great challenge of city building is reinventing places, not starting from scratch by tearing down old buildings or pouring concrete in the desert. The new model for urban development in the 21st century is downtown Brooklyn, across the East River from Manhattan.
Brooklyn Has Fully Conquered New York
For the past quarter century, cities around the world have sought to replicate Silicon Valley, the region south of San Francisco where Google, Apple, Facebook and hundreds of high tech firms are based. But the great challenge of city building is reinventing places, not starting from scratch by tearing down old buildings or pouring concrete in the desert. The new model for urban development in the 21st century is Downtown Brooklyn, across the East River from Manhattan.
New way to pay for projects
New way to pay for projects New York state has an abundance of neglected infrastructure that must be modernized and brought up to date to meet 21st century standards. From roads and bridges to water mains and transportation hubs, we must find a way to pay for essential projects and without costly delays. The crisis we face is real.
Guest column: Critical upgrades coming to LaGuardia Airport
LaGuardia Airport is the airport that connects New York with the nation. It’s the airport that people use to come to New York from many American cities, and it’s the one that New Yorkers use when they want to travel upstate, to the Midwest or Florida. It’s a small airport in size but enormously important in its capacity to connect people. It’s the most productive 680 acres in the world of aviation. It’s a gem that has been neglected and overlooked for half a century.
NY Slant
The new Tappan Zee Bridge is a design-build project, which will save New York taxpayers billions of dollars. (Philip Kamrass/Governor's Office) As New York faces a growing backlog of critical infrastructure needs, it is essential for everyone to focus on one collective goal: to accomplish more with existing resources. Design-Build procurement is a proven way to do just that. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ushered in an ambitious agenda with a much-needed focus on modernizing New York’s infrastructure.
Washington, DC: The Real Winner in this Recession
No matter how far the economy falters, there is always a winner. And no city does better when the nation is at the brink of disaster than Washington, DC. Since December 2007, when the current recession formally began, the nation has lost approximately 6 million jobs. Only two states, Alaska and North Dakota, have lost a smaller percentage of jobs than Washington, DC, which has seen a job loss of 0.6%, or 4,400.
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