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.

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.

Applying the Devil's Works in a Holy Cause: Working-Class Popular Culture and the Salvation Army in the United States, 1879-1900

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-223
Author(s):  
Lillian Taiz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Salvation Army ◽  
Public Meeting ◽  
The Many ◽  
Sunday Evening

Forty-eight hours after they landed in New York City in 1880, a small contingent of the Salvation Army held their first public meeting at the infamous Harry Hill's Variety Theater. The enterprising Hill, alerted to the group's arrival from Britain by newspaper reports, contacted their leader, Commissioner George Scott Railton, and offered to pay the group to “do a turn” for “an hour or two on … Sunday evening.” In nineteenth-century New York City, Harry Hill's was one of the best known concert saloons, and reformers considered him “among the disreputable classes” of that city. His saloon, they said, was “nothing more than one of the many gates to hell.”

The Roosevelt Legacy

2019 ◽  
pp. 190-236
Author(s):  
William vanden Heuvel
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
American Life ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact

This chapter describes the impact of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt on Ambassador vanden Heuvel's life and politics. He provides a brief biography of FDR and recounts his experiences with Mrs. Roosevelt, from shaking her hand when he was a boy to working with her on political and social issues as an adult. He tells the story of his participation in celebrating the legacy of FDR through the creation of the FDR Memorial in Washington, DC and the international Four Freedoms Awards. He presents two speeches, the first examining the legacy of the three Roosevelts – Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor – on American life and politics, the second detailing the close relationship between FDR and President Lyndon B. Johnson. The chapter ends with details of Ambassador vanden Heuvel's role in the creation of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park in New York City.

“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.

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.

Riverside Park and Issues of Historic Preservation

1984 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 238-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Cromley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Historic Preservation ◽  
York City ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The Other ◽  
Frederick Law Olmsted ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Active Recreation

Riverside Park and Riverside Drive in New York City were designated a Scenic Landmark in 1980 by the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission, but this designation raises some problems for historians. The Landmark designation is based primarily on the park's status as a Frederick Law Olmsted design. My research shows, however, that only a small part of the park as it stands today was actually designed by Olmsted, and that Riverside Park was rather the result of ad hoc decisions and compromises over several decades. The history of Riverside Park presented in this article is offered as an alternative to the Landmarks Commission's history in its "Designation Report." This alternative history of a "non-Olmsted park" shows that Olmsted's design, based on an aesthetic of nature, is preserved only in the layout of Riverside Drive on the high ground above the Hudson and in the parkland immediately adjacent to the Drive. The many sculptural monuments added to Riverside Park and Drive, beginning with a temporary Grant's Tomb in the 1880s and continuing through the 1920s, are the legacy of a City Beautiful conception of the park as an instrument for cultural uplift and education. In the 1930s yet another conception of parks as active recreation space led to doubling the park's size by landfill and expanding its facilities by building many sports grounds, children's playgrounds, and a tree-bordered promenade. In my conclusion, I consider what it means, to readers of history and to makers of parks policy, to choose one or the other of these histories. If Riverside is "an Olmsted park," preservation policies will take a different form than they will if it is a "non-Olmsted park." From this discussion, I also raise some general questions about the meaning and implications of constructing particular kinds of historical stories.

Marie Maynard Daly

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannette Brown
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
African American Woman ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Hunter College ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

Dr. Marie Maynard Daly was the first African American woman chemist to receive a PhD in chemistry. In addition, she was part of a research team that was working on the precursors to DNA . Marie was born Marie Maynard Daly on April 16, 1921, to Ivan C. Daly and Helen Page, the first of three children. Her father, who had emigrated from the West Indies, received a scholarship from Cornell University to study chemistry; however, he had to drop out because he could not pay his room and board, and he became a postal worker. Daly’s interest in science came from her father’s encouragement and the desire to live his dream.” He later encouraged his daughter to pursue his dream, even though she was a woman and had brothers who were twins. In the 1920s, as a result of the women’s suffrage movement, some women began to aspire to achievement in areas outside the domestic sphere. Marie’s mother encouraged reading and spent many hours reading to her and her brothers. Marie’s maternal grandfather had an extensive library, including books about scientists, such as The Microbe Hunters by Paul De Kruff; she read that book and many others like it. Growing up in Queens, one of the boroughs of New York City, she attended the local public school, where she excelled. She was able to attend Hunter College High School, an all girls’ school affiliated with Hunter College for women. Since this was a laboratory school for Hunter College, the faculty encouraged the girls to excel in their studies. Since Marie had an aptitude for science, the teachers there encouraged her to study college-level chemistry while still in high school. One of the many advantages of living in New York City during that time was that students who had good grades could enter one of the tuition-free colleges run by the City of New York. As a result, Daly enrolled in Queens College, then one of the newest institutions in the City College system, in Flushing, New York.

Made in Chinatown: Bridging Cultures and Evolving Identities in Modern Dance

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (S1) ◽  
pp. 186-192
Author(s):  
Marie Alonzo Snyder
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Modern Dance ◽  
Dance History ◽  
American Modern Dance ◽  
The Many ◽  
Made In

American modern dance history frequently overlooks Eleanor Yung and H. T. Chen. This presentation explores how these choreographers shaped the dance scene in New York's Chinatown, a venue for the many Asian dancers and choreographers who come to train and perform in New York City.

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