Mediating the Method

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-313
Author(s):  
Jacob Gallagher-Ross
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Experimental Music ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
Auditory Event ◽  
Recording Apparatus ◽  
The Difference ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Town

The scene is New York City, 1958. That year, in two disparate arenas, American culture was attempting to come to grips with the difference between noise and art. A twenty-five-year retrospective concert of John Cage's work at New York's Town Hall helped create an intellectually coherent canon out of Cage's experiments, which critics had often treated as puerile provocations or exercises in whimsy to be regarded with bemused toleration. For some forward thinkers, noise was becoming intellectually exciting material for experimental music, whereas the audible audience outrage preserved by the recording of the Town Hall concert testifies to the continuing rearguard pique of more conservative sensibilities. Cage himself couldn't have imagined a more apt illustration of his theories than this aleatory auditory event, preserved for posterity by the recording apparatus.

The Impact of Customer Loyalty and Restaurant Sanitation Grades on Revisit Intention and the Importance of Narrative Information: The Case of New York Restaurant Sanitation Grading System

2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Gyung Kim ◽  
Hyunjoo Yang ◽  
Anna S. Mattila
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
York City ◽  
Letter Grades ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Revisit Intentions ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Loyal Customers

New York City launched a restaurant sanitation letter grade system in 2010. We evaluate the impact of customer loyalty on restaurant revisit intentions after exposure to a sanitation grade alone, and after exposure to a sanitation grade plus narrative information about sanitation violations (e.g., presence of rats). We use a 2 (loyalty: high or low) × 4 (sanitation grade: A, B, C, or pending) between-subjects full factorial design to test the hypotheses using data from 547 participants recruited from Amazon MTurk who reside in the New York City area. Our study yields three findings. First, loyal customers exhibit higher intentions to revisit restaurants than non-loyal customers, regardless of sanitation letter grades. Second, the difference in revisit intentions between loyal and non-loyal customers is higher when sanitation grades are poorer. Finally, loyal customers are less sensitive to narrative information about sanitation violations.

“It is rather sickly here”

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-168
Author(s):  
Charles D. Ross
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Yellow Fever ◽  
York City ◽  
Chaotic State ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
Dry Dock ◽  
To Come

This chapter reviews Thomas Kirkpatrick's arrival from New York to Nassau to fill the new position in state of the consulate. It states that Kirkpatrick entered the consulate and found the office in a chaotic state. In preparation for the move, Kirkpatrick was able to sit down with George Harris and discuss resolution of the back-rent issue and other debts incurred by the office dating back to the repair of the windows Sam Whiting had broken out. The chapter also elaborates John Howell's idea that would help the Union: to establish a coal depot for US merchant ships on Hog Island near the dry dock. US Marshal for New York City Robert Murray introduced Howell as a true friend of the Union cause, who had provided much information on blockade runners. The chapter then narrates the downturn in activity in Nassau two days after Kirkpatrick's arrival: the return of yellow fever in 1864. Ultimately, the chapter discusses Kirkpatrick's recruitment of a couple of spies within the blockade-running companies and the surge of shipping in and out of Nassau. It further analyses Kirkpatrick's call for a new flying squadron to come to the Bahamas and reactivate Charles Wilkes's idea of nipping blockade runners off at the source.

Outside lending in the New York City call loan market: evidence from the Panic of 1907

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Moen ◽  
Ellis Tallman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Financial Market ◽  
York City ◽  
Loan Market ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Reliable Source ◽  
The Difference

Before the Panic of 1907 the large New York City banks were able to maintain the call loan market's liquidity during panics, but the rise in outside lending by trust companies and interior banks in the decade leading up the panic weakened the influence of the large banks. Creating a reliable source of liquidity and reserves external to the financial market like a central bank became obvious after the panic. In the call loan market, like the REPO market in 2008, lack of information on the identity of lenders and volume of the market hindered attempts to stop panic-related depositor withdrawals. Our new estimates of who was participating in the call loan market reveal that it did not contract after 1907; while the trust companies became less important, the New York national banks and outside lenders more than made up the difference.

A City's Desert: No Apples in the Big Apple? (A)

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Jamie Jones ◽  
Jennifer Rowland
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Food Deserts ◽  
Innovative Solution ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Many

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Physical Activity and Nutrition Program needed to come up with an innovative solution to the many health problems, such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease that plagued residents of poorer areas in the city, while increasing economic opportunity for neighborhood residents. The result was the launching of Green Carts, a new mobile food vending initiative to support the introduction of healthier food options to residents of “food deserts” in New York City boroughs. The challenge was navigating the diverse landscape of players and engaging all of the relevant stakeholders to come up with a solution that was both feasible and sustainable. This case exemplifies the how partnership and strategic alliances can be used to have significant social impact. The beauty of this example is that it simultaneously addresses two large social issues: 1) access to healthy food options in urban food deserts and 2) creating self-employment opportunities for members of disadvantaged communities. This case also illustrates how the public sector can act as social innovators.Evaluate a complex real-world example of the types of partnership that must be formed in order to achieve scalable social impact. Use the ecosystem analysis framework provided in class to analyze the potential stakeholder groups and make recommendations about the types of partnership that should be put in place in order to maximize the effectiveness of the program.

scholarly journals Passenger-Centric Performance Metrics for the New York City Subway

2019 ◽  
Vol 2673 (1) ◽  
pp. 417-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Halvorsen ◽  
Daniel Wood ◽  
Timon Stasko ◽  
Darian Jefferson ◽  
Alla Reddy
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Extra Time ◽  
Movement Data ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Transit Agencies ◽  
Scheduled Time

Like many transit agencies, New York City Transit (NYCT) has long relied on operations-focused metrics to measure its performance. Although these metrics, such as capacity provided and terminal on-time performance, are useful internally to indicate the actions needed to improve service, they typically do not represent the customer experience. To improve its transparency and public communications, NYCT launched a new online Subway Dashboard in September 2017. Two new passenger-centric metrics were developed for the dashboard: additional platform time (APT), the extra time passengers spend waiting for a train over the scheduled time, and additional train time (ATT), the extra time they spend riding a train over the scheduled time. Unlike similar existing metrics, NYCT’s new methodology is easily transferable to other agencies, even those without exit data from an automated fare collection system. Using a representative origin–destination matrix and daily scheduled and actual train movement data, a simplified train assignment model assigns each passenger trip to a train based on scheduled and actual service. APT and ATT are calculated as the difference in travel times between these two assignments for each individual trip and can then be aggregated based on line or time period. These new customer-centric metrics received praise from transit advocates, academics, other agencies, and the press, and are now used within NYCT for communicating with customers, as well as to understand the customer impacts of operational initiatives.

A City's Desert: No Apples in the Big Apple? (B)

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Jamie Jones ◽  
Jennifer Rowland
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Food Deserts ◽  
Innovative Solution ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Many

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Physical Activity and Nutrition Program needed to come up with an innovative solution to the many health problems, such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease that plagued residents of poorer areas in the city, while increasing economic opportunity for neighborhood residents. The result was the launching of Green Carts, a new mobile food vending initiative to support the introduction of healthier food options to residents of “food deserts” in New York City boroughs. The challenge was navigating the diverse landscape of players and engaging all of the relevant stakeholders to come up with a solution that was both feasible and sustainable. This case exemplifies the how partnership and strategic alliances can be used to have significant social impact. The beauty of this example is that it simultaneously addresses two large social issues: 1) access to healthy food options in urban food deserts and 2) creating self-employment opportunities for members of disadvantaged communities. This case also illustrates how the public sector can act as social innovators.Evaluate a complex real-world example of the types of partnership that must be formed in order to achieve scalable social impact. Use the ecosystem analysis framework provided in class to analyze the potential stakeholder groups and make recommendations about the types of partnership that should be put in place in order to maximize the effectiveness of the program.

Lower Hematocrit Levels in Blacks Are Not Due to Diet or Socioeconomic Factors

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 580-580
Author(s):  
Stanley M. Garn
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
York City ◽  
Nutrition Survey ◽  
Data Bases ◽  
National Medical ◽  
Communicative Disorders ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Journal Ofclinical

Having been involved in the question of black-white differences in hemoglobins and hematocrits from the very start (appropriately published in the Journal of the National Medical Association, Pediatrics, Journal of Pediatrics, American Journal ofClinical Nutrition, etc),1,2 I am intrigued with the statement of Dutton reprinted in the July issue ofPediatrics (66:A62, 1980) suggesting that all of the difference is socioeconomic and dietary in nature. From the start of our studies we considered this possibility only to reject it first for the State of Michigan, then for the ten states (and New York City) involved in the Ten State Nutrition Survey, and finally in many other data bases including the NCPP (National Collaborative Perinatal Project) of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke.

ORPHAN TRAINS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. A32-A32
Author(s):  
Student
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
To Come

What were these children like, these waifs who hustled New York City streets or lived in squalid orphanages with names like Home for the Friendless? What was it like to have been one of the more than 100,000 urban ragamuffins scooped up, put on trains and shipped to strange new lives on Midwestern farms [in] an exceedingly ambitious child-aid operation, the Orphan Trains. Starting in 1854 and continuing for the next 75 years, the Children's Aid Society, later joined by other agencies, took whole trainloads of children from vermin-infested city slums to new tomorrows in the heartland. The first participants and the majority of those to come later were from New York. Once arrived, they were lined up to be picked over by townspeople. Younger ones were adopted by families; older ones taken in and educated in return for work, and the unchosen shipped to the next town. One historian observed that not since the Children's Crusade in the 13th century had there been such a movement of children over such vast distances.

Indian Slaveholders and Presbyterian Missionaries, 1837–1861

1973 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
William G. McLoughlin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New England ◽  
York City ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
New School ◽  
Mission Work ◽  
Foreign Mission Board ◽  
Foreign Mission ◽  
The Difference

Founded in 1837 to provide a denohinational foreign mission board for the Old School Presbyterians, the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions (PBFM) had from the outset a very different outlook toward mission work among slave-holding Indians than did its closest rival, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), which served the New School Presbyterians and New England Congregationalists. The difference increased until 1859 when the latter organization, unable to reconcile its antislavery conviction with the determined proslavery position of the southern Indians, withdrew from that field. The PBFM, headquartered in New York City, thereupon took under its patronage most of those ABCFM missionaries who had been abandoned by their Boston-based board for refusing to expound and practice an antislavery position among the Choctaws, Cherokees, Chickasaws, Seminoles and Creeks.

She Can Do It

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Ruby Rich
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Current Issue ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
60Th Anniversary ◽  
Lincoln Center ◽  
To Come

Editor in Chief, B. Ruby Rich, weighs in on the latest in film and media culture. She recaps the recent “Dimensions in Black” event that FQ hosted at Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City to launch our December 2017 issue; reviews the content of the current issue; pays tribute to notable voices in the field that have passed on; and hints at things to come in FQ's 60th anniversary year.

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