Placing Ms. Marvel and Dust

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-44
Author(s):  
Martin Lund
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Real World ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Urban Representations ◽  
The Us ◽  
Material Space ◽  
The City

The US has historically had trouble with ethnoracial formation, tensions having often boiled over when public awareness of various immigrant groups reached critical mass. Post-9/11, Muslims became the latest such “problem.” This “Muslim problem” is hotly debated in US comics culture. This chapter looks at Dust and Ms. Marvel, two post-9/11 Marvel Muslim superheroines, to show how Marvel has attempted corrective representations of Muslims and how these characters can be said to perpetuate or complicate Muslim stereotypes. Comics’ urban representations are never merely mimetic of material space, but always symbolic, selective, and ideologically informed narrative and graphic montages: a comic’s claim to real-world space is necessarily normative, taking existing spaces, and recreating it in ways that say who belongs there. This chapter focuses on how Dust and Ms. Marvel are figured in relation to New York City and its surroundings, and what that says about Muslims’ imagined right to the city.

Losing Your Right to the City

2018 ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
Jan Haldipur
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
York City ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Housing Authority ◽  
District Attorney ◽  
Witness Testimony ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Unanticipated Consequences ◽  
The City

This chapter explores the unanticipated consequences of aggressive policing and looks into some potential policy recommendations. The author ties in interview data from outside stakeholders, like a New York City Housing Authority Tenant Association president and a high-ranking assistant district attorney from the Bronx District Attorney’s office, in order to help illustrate exactly what type of impact aggressive policing can have on outcomes such as securing a conviction. As the data suggests, these police tactics can significantly affect a prosecutor’s ability to obtain witness testimony as well as receive a favorable decision from a jury.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Lauren C. Santangelo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
New York State ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
York State ◽  
The City

In 1917, New York State amended its constitution to enfranchise women. That New York City men voted in support of the amendment stunned reporters, residents, and movement leaders alike who assumed that Gotham voters would oppose the measure. What explains their assumptions and their surprise? Why did so many city residents endorse the amendment? The introduction outlines how suffragists claimed a “right to the city” in order to convince metropolitan neighbors to support women’s rights, tracing the shift in their tactics from 1870 to 1917. Building on histories of the women’s suffrage movement and studies on the gendered metropolis, it summarizes how urbanization, gender norms, and political activism intersected in turn of the century New York.

The Lure of Decay

Dying City ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Tochterman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Radical Interpretation ◽  
Art Scene ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

This chapter examines the appropriation of the dying city by New York City natives and migrants drawn by the lure of decay, and the cultural explosion that followed, which birthed the downtown art scene, hip-hop, and new wave or punk music. This moment epitomized “the right to the city,” a more radical interpretation of Cosmopolis, making New York an open city in the 1970s.

Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 149-154
Author(s):  
Lauren C. Santangelo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
New York State ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
York State ◽  
The City

In 1913, bystanders attacked suffragists during a parade in Washington, DC. Clearly, tactics developed in Manhattan inspired campaigns elsewhere, but the reception to these strategies differed. This epilogue summarizes the ways in which leaders in New York City claimed a “right to the city” in order to win the vote in New York State and how organizations across the nation appropriated their strategies—sometimes successfully, sometimes unsuccessfully. Victory in New York was as much a political victory as a cultural one, as suffragists reimagined women’s place in the nation’s largest metropolis. At the same time, they failed to completely dismantle gendered notions of propriety or combat gendered violence, reminding that revolutions have limits and claiming a “right to the city” is very different from achieving that right.

Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Robert Chatham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Municipal Hospital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Benefit Corporation ◽  
The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

The Search for Order in Municipal Administration: Herman A. Metz and the New York City Experience, 1898–1909

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-74
Author(s):  
Ryan P. McDonough ◽  
Paul J. Miranti ◽  
Michael P. Schoderbek
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
York City ◽  
Internal Controls ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
The Public ◽  
Operational Activities ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT This paper examines the administrative and accounting reforms coordinated by Herman A. Metz around the turn of the 20th century in New York City. Reform efforts were motivated by deficiencies in administering New York City's finances, including a lack of internal control over monetary resources and operational activities, and opaque financial reports. The activities of Comptroller Metz, who collaborated with institutions such as the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, were paramount in initiating and implementing the administrative and accounting reforms in the city, which contributed to reform efforts across the country. Metz promoted the adoption of functional cost classifications for city departments, developed flowcharts for improved transaction processing, strengthened internal controls, and published the 1909 Manual of Accounting and Business Procedure of the City of New York, which laid the groundwork for transparent financial reports capable of providing vital information about the city's activities and subsidiary units. JEL Classifications: H72, M41, N91. Data Availability: Data are available from the public sources cited in the text.

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