Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Melissa Checker
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
Staten Island ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City

This chapter introduces some of the contradictions of urban sustainability in New York City by comparing the glassy, “green” high-rises, rooftop gardens, and waterfront parks of Manhattan and Brooklyn to the heavily industrialized north shore of Staten Island, largely populated by communities of color. The chapter then offers a brief overview of economic redevelopment in New York City during the 12-year mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg who effectively coupled sustainability with luxury real estate development. This pairing forms the basis of environmental gentrification, a process that exacerbates the uneven distribution of environmental benefits and burdens across the city and undermines the very definition of urban sustainability. This chapter lays out a framework for investigating this and other paradoxes that plague today’s “sustainable” cities.

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 Changing Landscape of Asian Entrepreneurship, Minority Banks, and Community Development

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 78-90
Author(s):  
Tarry Hum
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
York City ◽  
Commercial Real Estate ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
Public Data

This policy brief examines minority banks and their lending practices in New York City. By synthesizing various public data sources, this policy brief finds that Asian banks now make up a majority of minority banks, and their loans are concentrated in commercial real estate development. This brief underscores the need for improved data collection and access to research minority banks and the need to improve their contributions to equitable community development and sustainability.

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.

New York at its Core: A Review of an Exhibition at the City Museum of New York

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
Thomas Wide
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

AbstractThomas Wide visits a recent exhibition on the history of New York City

2010 Meltdown – Airport Closure Risk Communications in London and NYC

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-110
Author(s):  
Sweta Chakraborty ◽  
Naomi Creutzfeldt-Banda
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
City Area ◽  
Risk Communications ◽  
The City ◽  
Economic And Social Impacts

Saturday, 18 December 2010 was the first of a two day complete closure of all London area airports due to freezing temperatures and approximately five inches of snow. A week later on December 26th, New York City area airports closed in a similar manner from the sixth largest snowstorm in NYC history, blanketing the city approximately twenty inches of snow. Both storms grounded flights for days, and resulted in severe delays long after the snow stopped falling. Both London and NYC area airports produced risk communications to explain the necessity for the closures and delays. This short flash news report examines, in turn, the risk communications presented during the airport closures. A background is provided to understand how the risk perceptions differ between London and NYC publics. Finally, it compares and contrasts the perceptions of the decision making process and outcomes of the closures, which continue to accumulate economic and social impacts.

scholarly journals GREENMARKET NOVA-IORQUINO: ONDE O RURAL SE ENCONTRA COM A MEGALÓPOLE AMERICANA

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gutemberg Armando Diniz Guerra ◽  
Maria De Nazaré Angelo MENEZES ◽  
Daniel Garcia ◽  
Lin Chau Ming
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Staten Island ◽  
Green Market

<p>O <em>Greenmarket Farmers</em>, como são chamados os mercados hortícolas em Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos da América, tem como uma de suas particularidades a de ser organizado por produtores rurais apoiados pelo <em>Council of Environment of the New York City </em>e cuja venda de produtos deve ser feita diretamente aos consumidores, sem intermediários. Exerce uma importante função, tanto para os agricultores quanto para o público consumidor. No presente estudo foi realizado levantamento contínuo no período de um ano (agosto de 2008 a junho de 2009) seguindo-se de visitas pontuais nos anos de 2010, 2011 e 2012 ao levantamento sistemático, um refinamento dos dados sobre as plantas hortícolas comercializadas e seus produtores no <em>Greenmarket Farmers</em>, que possuem 46 pontos de venda em Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx e Staten Island. Neste período foram observados aspectos de entrelaçamento entre produtores rurais e consumidores urbanos, além da diversidade vegetal. Foram levantadas 120 espécies de plantas comercializadas por 60 produtores, nos diversos pontos do Green Market. Foram listadas 38 famílias botânicas, inseridas em 84 gêneros. A família mais recorrente é Brassicaceae (18), seguida de Asteraceae (13), Lamiaceae (12) e Rosaceae (12). Aspecto que se revela nestas feiras é a face agrícola do estado de Nova Iorque, em geral representado por atividades de turismo e do centro financeiro do mais poderoso país do mundo, e uma das maiores concentrações populacionais do planeta. O apelo ecológico, o estímulo ao consumo de produtos locais e a concessão de cupons de beneficio cedidos às pessoas em dificuldade<a title="" href="file:///C:/Users/Eraldo/Documents/02%20-%20Vivencias%20e%20tecnicas%20de%20relaxamento/Green%20market.NYC%20%2010_Out_2018%20Daniel%20GG%20(1).doc#_ftn1">[1]</a>, em uma comunidade cosmopolita e multi-étnica, canalizam recursos públicos e apoiam este tipo de mercado, permitindo uma reflexão sobre as relações e interatividade entre rural e urbano, diluídas pelas características próprias aos países desenvolvidos, em especial em grandes cidades. Portanto, percebe-se com este trabalho que os “greenmarkets” são pontos não só de venda de grande diversidade de vegetais, mas também local para relacionamentos, trocas de experiências e ideologias.</p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div><p><a title="" href="file:///C:/Users/Eraldo/Documents/02%20-%20Vivencias%20e%20tecnicas%20de%20relaxamento/Green%20market.NYC%20%2010_Out_2018%20Daniel%20GG%20(1).doc#_ftnref1">[1]</a> Os cupons podem ser usados em qualquer supermercado ou nos Greenmarkets.</p></div></div>

scholarly journals Nueva York 1916. La ciudad sin límites | New York 1916. Unlimited city

ZARCH ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
José Durán Fernández
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New York City ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
York City ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
The City

La Ciudad de Nueva York fue pionera en la aplicación de un sistema de planificación de control urbano que pusiera orden y concierto a una ciudad que rebasa los 5 millones de habitantes a principios del siglo XX. Tal complejo organismo urbano, inédito hasta ese momento, fue objeto del más ambicioso plan urbano sobre una ciudad construida.Este artículo se destina al estudio de este originario plan urbano de 1916, el cual sentaría las bases, unas ciertamente visionarias otras excesivas, de la construcción de la Ciudad de Nueva York en todo el siglo XX. La Building Zone Resolution se creó con dos fines: resolver los problemas de congestión humana en un espacio reducido, la ciudad del presente, y proponer una visión del espacio urbano en las décadas venideras, la ciudad del futuro.El artículo es un compendio de diez textos cortos y un epílogo, que junto a sus respectivos diez documentos gráficos, construyen el corpus de la investigación. El lector pues se enfrenta a un ensayo gráfico formado por pequeños capítulos que le sumergirán en los orígenes de la primera ciudad vertical de la historia.PALABRAS CLAVE: Nueva York; Planeamiento; Visión urbana.The city of New York was a pioneer in the implementation of an urban control planning system that set in order a city that exceeds five million people in the early twentieth century. Such complex urban organism – invaluable until that moment – was the target for the most ambitious urban planning on a built city.This paper focuses on the study of this initial urban planning from 1916, which would set the basis, certainly some visionary yet others excessive, for the building of New York City throughout the 20th century. The Building Zone Resolution was created with two purposes: to solve the issues related to the human bundle in a limited space, the city of the present, and to aim a vision of the urban space in the forthcoming decades, the city of the future.The article is a compendium of ten short texts and one epilogue, which in combination with ten graphic documents, frame the corpus of this investigation. Thus, the reader will face a graphic essay composed by a series of brief chapters that highlight the beginning of the first vertical city in history.KEYWORDS: New York; Planning; Urban vision.

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