Philanthropy, Self Help, and Social Control: The New York Manumission Society and Free Blacks, 1785-1810

Purpose: To summarize the reach, services offered, and cessation outcomes of the New York Quitline and compare with other state quitlines. Design: Descriptive study. Setting: Forty-five US states. Participants: State-sponsored tobacco cessation quitlines in 45 US states that provided complete data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Quitline Data Warehouse (NQDW) for 24 quarters over 6 years (2010-Q1 through 2015-Q4). Intervention: Telephone quitlines that offer tobacco use cessation services, including counseling, self-help materials, and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), to smokers at no cost to them. Measures: Percentage of adult tobacco users in the state who received counseling and/or free NRT from state quitlines (reach), services offered by state quitlines, and cessation outcomes among quitline clients 7 months after using quitline services. Analysis: Reach, services offered, and cessation outcomes for the New York Quitline were compared with similar measures for the other 44 state quitlines with complete NQDW data for all quarters from 2010 through 2015. Results: New York’s average annual quitline reach from 2010 through 2015 was 3.0% per year compared to 1.1% per year for the other 44 states examined. Conclusion: Although the New York Quitline was open fewer hours per week and offered fewer counseling sessions and a smaller amount of free NRT than most of the other 44 state quitlines, the New York Quitline had similar quit rates to most of those state quitlines.

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The conquest of space: New York City's new frontier of social control

Surveillance and Governance: Crime Control and Beyond - Sociology of Crime Law and Deviance ◽

10.1016/s1521-6136(07)00203-5 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 57-74

Author(s):

Kirsten Christiansen

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Social Control ◽

New Frontier

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“We’re Doing It Ourselves”

Journal of Planning History ◽

10.1177/1538513216661207 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 162-174 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Suleiman Osman

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Community Gardens ◽

Tree Planting ◽

Budget Cuts ◽

Parks And Recreation ◽

Self Help ◽

New Public ◽

History Of ◽

Left And Right ◽

Do It Yourself

While the privatization of parks has been controversial since the 1980s, the origins of public–private parks in New York City were complex. During the 1970s fiscal crisis, the Parks and Recreation Department suffered severe budget cuts and was forced to reduce services drastically. Faced with parks that were falling apart, thousands of volunteers in block associations and community groups began to maintain parks on their own. They pioneered radical forms of “do-it-yourself” urbanism with guerrilla horticulture, community gardens, children-fashioned adventure playgrounds, tree-planting drives, makeshift ambulances, and volunteer patrols. By the early 1980s, these “self-help” efforts coalesced into new public–private parks. The history of public–private parks is thus one of privatizations in the plural and points to an array of antistatist impulses that emerged on both the left and right in the 1970s.

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