scholarly journals AN EXAMINATION OF THE JOINT DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT BY THE LINDSAY ADMINISTRATION REGARDING ITS LOWER MANHATTAN EXPRESSWAY AS AN URBAN HIGHWAY PLANNING IN NEW YORK

2021 ◽  
Vol 86 (780) ◽  
pp. 559-569
Author(s):  
Toshio TAGUCHI
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Joint Development ◽  
Lower Manhattan ◽  
Highway Planning ◽  
Development Concept

Coda

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Gikandi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Third ◽  
Lower Manhattan ◽  
Involuntary Servitude

This chapter describes three events. The first is Republican representative from New York James Tallmadge Jr.'s proposed amendment to the to the bill seeking to grant statehood to Missouri. On February 13, 1819, he proposed that “the further introduction of slavery or involuntary servitude be prohibited” in Missouri as a condition for its entry into the union and that “all children of slaves, born within the said state, after admission thereof into the union, shall be free at the age of twenty-five years.” The second is the discovery in June 1991 in Lower Manhattan of the remains of four hundred Africans, mostly slaves, some of whom had been buried as early as the 1690s. The third is Barack Hussein Obama's inauguration as the forty-fourth president of the United States on January 20, 2009.

Case Studies

2019 ◽  
pp. 38-68
Author(s):  
Rebecca Yamin ◽  
Donna J. Seifert
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
York City ◽  
High Class ◽  
Lower Manhattan ◽  
The City

This chapter focuses on two case studies, reviewing in detail the findings of large urban projects that encountered brothel sites. The New York City project addresses the history and archaeology of a brothel in the Five Points neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. The discussion contrasts the reputation of the residents with the evidence revealed by the artifact assemblages. The discussion of Washington, D.C. parlor houses addresses the remarkable assemblage of high-class furnishings and possessions and expensive foods enjoyed in the houses in the heart of the city—houses that served the men of government and business in the nation’s capital.

An Opportunity for E-Democracy in Rebuilding Lower Manhattan

2011 ◽  
pp. 751-758
Author(s):  
Claudia G. Green ◽  
Suzanne K. Murrmann
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Citizen Satisfaction ◽  
Lower Manhattan ◽  
Online Format ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
The City

Following the events of September 11, 2001 (9-11), the Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York established a forum for the purposes of gathering citizen opinions on the nature of the rebuilding of New York City’s Lower Manhattan area. Citizens gave their opinions on the development of space for a memorial, performing arts spaces, museums, restaurants, hotels, residences and businesses. This effort was named “Listening to the City.” Civic Alliance organized two types of citizen opinion-gathering strategies: face-to-face focus groups and online dialog focus groups (www.listeningtothecity.org). The purpose of this article is to assess citizen satisfaction with veness of the online format of citizen involvement in making decisions regarding the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan following the attacks of 9-11. The results contribute to our understanding of the use of Internet technology in gathering citizen opinions in urban development and planning.

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. McElroy
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Low Pressure ◽  
Pressure System ◽  
Weather System ◽  
Beach Communities ◽  
Lower Manhattan ◽  
Surge Flooding

The risk of disruptive climate change is real and immediate. A low- pressure system forming in the tropics develops into a Category hurricane, 1 making its way slowly up the east coast of the United States. Normally a storm such as this would be expected to make a right- hand turn and move off across the Atlantic. Conditions, however, are not normal. This storm is about to encounter an intense low- pressure weather system associated with an unusual configuration of the jet stream, linked potentially to an abnormally warm condition in the Arctic. Forecasts suggest that rather than turning right, the storm is going to turn left and intensify as it moves over unseasonably warm water off the New Jersey coast. It develops into what some would describe as the storm of the century. New York and New Jersey feel the brunt of the damage. The impact extends as far north as Maine and as far south as North Carolina. Lower Manhattan is engulfed by a 14- foot storm surge, flooding the subway, plunging the city south of 39th Street into darkness. Residents of Staten Island fear for their lives as their homes are flooded, as they lose power, and as their community is effectively isolated from the rest of the world. As many as 23 people are drowned as floodwaters engulf much of the borough. Beach communities of New Jersey are devastated. As much as a week after the storm has passed, more than a million homes and businesses in New York and New Jersey are still without power. Estimates of damage range as high as $60 billion. This is the story of the devastation brought about by Hurricane Sandy in late October of 2012.The encounter with Sandy prompted a number of queries concerning a possible link to human- induced global climate change. Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, commented: “Part of the learning from this is the recognition that climate change is a reality, extreme weather is a reality.”

The Borrower's Tale: A History of Poor Debtors inLochnerEra New York City

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 1053-1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Fleming
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Interest Rate ◽  
York City ◽  
New York State ◽  
York State ◽  
Lower Manhattan ◽  
History Of ◽  
Office Manager

When asked why he did not read over the loan documents before signing them, John Doherty explained: “I was anxious to get the money, I didn't bother about it.” In February 1910, the twenty-three-year-old railroad clerk walked into the offices of the Chesterkirk Company, a loan-sharking operation with offices in lower Manhattan. He was looking to borrow some money. Repayment was guaranteed by the only security Doherty had to offer: his prospective wages and, in his words, his “reputation.” After a brief investigation of Doherty's creditworthiness, the loan was approved. The office manager placed a cross in lead pencil at the bottom of a lengthy form and Doherty signed where indicated. He received $34.85 in exchange for his promise to repay the loan principal plus $10.15 in combined fees and interest in three months. The interest charged was significantly greater than the 6 percent per year allowed in New York State. Doherty's effective annualized interest rate, including fees, was over 100 percent.

An Opportunity for E-Democracy in Rebuilding Lower Manhattan

2011 ◽  
pp. 1306-1310 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. G. Green ◽  
S. K. Murrmann
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Citizen Satisfaction ◽  
Lower Manhattan ◽  
Online Format ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
The City

Following the events of September 11, 2001 (9-11), the Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York established a forum for the purposes of gathering citizen opinions on the nature of the rebuilding of New York City’s Lower Manhattan area. Citizens gave their opinions on the development of space for a memorial, performing arts spaces, museums, restaurants, hotels, residences and businesses. This effort was named “Listening to the City.” Civic Alliance organized two types of citizen opinion-gathering strategies: face-to-face focus groups and online dialog focus groups (www.listeningtothecity.org). The purpose of this article is to assess citizen satisfaction with veness of the online format of citizen involvement in making decisions regarding the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan following the attacks of 9-11. The results contribute to our understanding of the use of Internet technology in gathering citizen opinions in urban development and planning.

From Upper Canal to Lower Manhattan: Memorialization and the Politics of Loss

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 687-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Stow
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
York City ◽  
Initial Response ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
French Quarter ◽  
Lower Manhattan ◽  
Productive Potential ◽  
Ease Of Access

The New Orleans Katrina Memorial is located at the upper end of Canal Street, an inexpensive and relatively short trolley car ride from the city's tourist hub in the French Quarter. Despite its ease of access, and close proximity to the more famous cemeteries to which tourists regularly make pilgrimage, the memorial is little visited and largely unknown, even to many of the city's own residents. In this it stands in stark contrast to the National September 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan, which drew its millionth visitor less than four months after its opening on September 12, 2011. Recent work in political theory on memory, mourning, and memorialization—as well as Ancient Greek concerns about the same—point to the ways in which the manner of remembrance, grieving, and commemoration employed by a democratic polity help to shape political outcomes. In what follows, I trace the history and design of the New York City and New Orleans memorials to suggest the ways in which they embody and perpetuate national strategies of remembrance and forgetting, in which injustices perpetratedagainstthe polity are prioritized over injustices perpetratedwithinit. Drawing on John Bodnar's distinction between national and vernacular commemoration, I nevertheless conclude with a counter-intuitive suggestion: that while on anationallevel the public's relative ignorance of the Katrina Memorial is indeed indicative of a polity more concerned with injustices perpetrated against it than within it; on alocallevel the erection and subsequent forgetting of the Katrina Memorial is a manifestation of a mode ofvernacularmemory, mourning and commemoration with far more democratically-productive potential than its counterpart in New York City. In particular, I argue that it cultivates, and historicallyhascultivated, a more forward-looking, progressive, and polyphonic response to loss than the type of dominant national narratives embodied by the 9/11 Memorial. Whereas the latter continually replays the loss in ways that rob the polity of its capacity to move beyond its initial response, the former acknowledges and incorporates the loss while steeling the community for the challenges ahead.

Loft Jazz

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Heller
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Lower Manhattan

The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. Faced with a flagging jazz economy, a group of young avant-garde improvisers chose to eschew the commercial sphere and develop alternative venues in the abandoned factories and warehouses of Lower Manhattan. This book provides a study of this period, tracing its history amid a series of overlapping discourses surrounding collectivism, urban renewal, experimentalist aesthetics, underground archives, and the radical politics of self-determination.

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