scholarly journals What Not To Wear At The Opera: Outfitting Sociability At The Met

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Marland ◽  
Irene Gammel
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Cultural Literacy ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
American Opera ◽  
Metropolitan Opera ◽  
Class Hierarchies

This research project proposes that fashion performs a critical role in the perpetuation of class hierarchies in American opera audiences. Dress is used by opera patrons as a mode of expressing their economic, social, and cultural capital, thereby affirming their status within society. The Metropolitan Opera house, opened in New York City in 1883, was built intentionally to create a space for the New York elite class to socialize, incorporating architectural features that reflected the power dynamics of New York society, effectively prioritizing sociability over musical integrity. This study is supported by analysis of early Vogue magazine articles that directly contributed to the formation of the opera as a pursuit for the upper-class; as well as a critical investigation of photographs drawn from the Met archive revealing the ways in which fashion at the Met performs economic and social power.. Ultimately, this project uses dress to examine the embedded class hierarchies that sustain an elite, exclusive audience for opera in America; indeed, the study shows that the combination of opera and fashion created class cohesion through mutually acknowledged cultural literacy in New York City.

scholarly journals What Not To Wear At The Opera: Outfitting Sociability At The Met

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Marland ◽  
Irene Gammel
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Cultural Literacy ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
American Opera ◽  
Metropolitan Opera ◽  
Class Hierarchies

This research project proposes that fashion performs a critical role in the perpetuation of class hierarchies in American opera audiences. Dress is used by opera patrons as a mode of expressing their economic, social, and cultural capital, thereby affirming their status within society. The Metropolitan Opera house, opened in New York City in 1883, was built intentionally to create a space for the New York elite class to socialize, incorporating architectural features that reflected the power dynamics of New York society, effectively prioritizing sociability over musical integrity. This study is supported by analysis of early Vogue magazine articles that directly contributed to the formation of the opera as a pursuit for the upper-class; as well as a critical investigation of photographs drawn from the Met archive revealing the ways in which fashion at the Met performs economic and social power.. Ultimately, this project uses dress to examine the embedded class hierarchies that sustain an elite, exclusive audience for opera in America; indeed, the study shows that the combination of opera and fashion created class cohesion through mutually acknowledged cultural literacy in New York City.

Chalk Back

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-128
Author(s):  
Natasha Harris-Harb ◽  
Sophie Sandberg
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Street Harassment ◽  
Class Project ◽  
The World

The Chalk Back movement that started in March 2016 is a rapidly growing collective of over 150 young activists from around the world. As part of a university class project, Sophie decided to collect experiences of street harassment, write them out verbatim with chalk on the streets where they occurred alongside the hashtag #stopstreetharassment, and post them on the Instagram account @catcallsofnyc. Two years later, the account gained popularity. Other catcallsof accounts opened in London, Amsterdam, Ottawa, Dhaka, Nairobi, Cairo, and Sydney. These accounts, discussed below, are just a few of those spanning 150 cities in 49 countries in 6 continents. We are two Chalk Back members—Natasha from Ottawa and Sophie from New York City—highlighting the risk, empowerment, and power dynamics of what we call chalking back by amplifying the voices of those doing this work around the world.

scholarly journals Critical Role of the Subways in the Initial Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in New York City

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey E Harris
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Radius Of Influence ◽  
Community Transmission ◽  
Zip Code ◽  
Viral Isolates

We studied the possible role of the subways in the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in New York City during late February and March 2020. Data on cases and hospitalizations, along with phylogenetic analyses of viral isolates, demonstrate rapid community transmission throughout all five boroughs within days. The near collapse of subway ridership during the second week of March was followed within 1-2 weeks by the flattening of COVID-19 incidence curve. We observed persistently high entry into stations located along the subway line serving a principal hotspot of infection in Queens. We used smartphone tracking data to estimate the volume of subway visits originating from each zip code tabulation area (ZCTA). Across ZCTAs, the estimated volume of subway visits on March 16 was strongly predictive of subsequent COVID-19 incidence during April 1-8. In a spatial analysis, we distinguished between the conventional notion of geographic contiguity and a novel notion of contiguity along subway lines. We found that the March 16 subway-visit volume in subway-contiguous ZCTAs had an increasing effect on COVID-19 incidence during April 1-8 as we enlarged the radius of influence up to 5 connected subway stops. By contrast, the March 31 cumulative incidence of COVID-19 in geographically-contiguous ZCTAs had an increasing effect on subsequent COVID-19 incidence as we expanded the radius up to 3 connected ZCTAs. The combined evidence points to the initial citywide dissemination of SARS-CoV-2 via a subway-based network, followed by percolation of new infections within local hotspots.

Ballet Theatre after Fifteen Years

Tempo ◽  
1955 ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
R. J. Austin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Metropolitan Opera ◽  
The World ◽  
Opera House

This year Ballet Theatre celebrates its fifteenth anniversary with a three-weeks' season in April at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. After fifteen years it still remains one of the greatest companies in the world, and if the New York City Ballet has become more widely accepted as America's leading company, there can be no doubt that the influence of Ballet Theatre has been decisive in establishing the popularity of ballet throughout the United States.

scholarly journals Critical Role of the Subways in the Initial Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in New York City

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey E. Harris
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Radius Of Influence ◽  
Community Transmission ◽  
Zip Code ◽  
Viral Isolates

We studied the possible role of the subways in the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in New York City during late February and March 2020. Data on cases and hospitalizations, along with phylogenetic analyses of viral isolates, demonstrate rapid community transmission throughout all five boroughs within days. The near collapse of subway ridership during the second week of March was followed within 1–2 weeks by the flattening of COVID-19 incidence curve. We observed persistently high entry into stations located along the subway line serving a principal hotspot of infection in Queens. We used smartphone tracking data to estimate the volume of subway visits originating from each zip code tabulation area (ZCTA). Across ZCTAs, the estimated volume of subway visits on March 16 was strongly predictive of subsequent COVID-19 incidence during April 1–8. In a spatial analysis, we distinguished between the conventional notion of geographic contiguity and a novel notion of contiguity along subway lines. We found that the March 16 subway-visit volume in subway-contiguous ZCTAs had an increasing effect on COVID-19 incidence during April 1–8 as we enlarged the radius of influence up to 5 connected subway stops. By contrast, the March 31 cumulative incidence of COVID-19 in geographically-contiguous ZCTAs had an increasing effect on subsequent COVID-19 incidence as we expanded the radius up to three connected ZCTAs. The combined evidence points to the initial citywide dissemination of SARS-CoV-2 via a subway-based network, followed by percolation of new infections within local hotspots.

scholarly journals Green Job Opportunities Through the Curriculum and Community Enterprise for Restoration Science in New York City

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Lauren Birney ◽  
Denise M. McNamara
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Sustainable Change ◽  
Job Opportunities

This paper examines the current understanding of the green economy movement and the critical role that education plays in attracting a viable workforce for this relatively new crusade. By connecting youth with the importance of environmental concerns in their community, tangible opportunities for sustainable change are created. By giving human agency to some of the most marginalized populations in New York City, the opportunity to experience environmental challenges in the community in which they live exposes these students to a plethora of enriching and rewarding employment opportunities. By combining the stewardship of their environment with formal and informal education, the Curriculum and Community Enterprise for Restoration Science in New York City is presenting multiple pathways for employment and educational opportunities in the green economy.

“The Irish are for Freedom Everywhere”

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Nelson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Black Nationalism ◽  
Great War ◽  
War For Independence ◽  
The Great War

This chapter is situated within the framework of the “Green Atlantic” and its relationship to socialism and black nationalism. New York City became a world capital of insurgent movements during and after the Great War. The experience of Irish nationalists in New York during this critical decade in Ireland's history—above all, the experience of the Irish Progressive League—further complicates the narrative of Ireland as “sacra insula” and of Irish emigrants as narrowly conservative. The Irish Progressive League, played a critical role in launching one of the most remarkable episodes of Ireland's war for independence—the Irish Patriotic Strike, which took place in New York Harbor for three weeks in August and September 1920. It was a rare moment—when Green and Black came together in a common struggle—but it was followed by Eamon de Valera's public lament that “Ireland is now the last white nation that is deprived of its liberty.”

Words and Wounds

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Akerman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Realities ◽  
Scientific Framework

In this study of exile, Sean Akerman chronicles the ways in which narrative approaches provide opportunities to understand and represent the lives of those who have been displaced after violence. Drawing on fieldwork he conducted with Tibetan exiles in New York City, and supplemented with archival research from other exilees around the world, Akerman investigates how narrative approaches can reveal what it’s like to embody historical tensions, how identity becomes contested within displaced groups, and how personal stories become ingrained into the responsibilities of political realities. Akerman uses his fieldwork to question the practices of research, too. How does a researcher write in a way that does justice to displaced lives while working within a scientific framework? What sort of ethics are at stake as one spends long hours interviewing an informant, and then interprets that person’s stories? Narrative approaches become ways to imagine new possibilities of representation, and call attention to the limitations and power dynamics within the discipline of psychology. In light of massive upheavals that go on unabated all over the world, Words and Wounds provides a timely consideration of what it looks like to understand and represent one of the most pressing issues of this age.

scholarly journals Correlation Study of Planetary-Boundary-Layer-Height Retrievals from CL51 and CHM15K Ceilometers with Application To PM2.5 Dynamics in New York City

2020 ◽  
Vol 237 ◽  
pp. 03010
Author(s):  
Dingdong Li ◽  
Barry Gross ◽  
Yonghua Wu ◽  
Fred Moshary
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Planetary Boundary Layer ◽  
York City ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Planetary Boundary Layer Height ◽  
Layer Height ◽  
Boundary Layer Height

Planetary-boundary-layer-height (PBLH) plays a critical role in the study of urban air quality, weather and climate. Continuous observation is critical in understanding air pollution processes and evaluation of air quality/ weather models in the complex urban environment. In this study, we observe the PBLH variation using multiple ceilometers and lidar in New York City (NYC) during both the summer and winter time and explore the potential correlation with ground PM2.5. An automated quality control and quality assurance (QC/QA) method is developed to optimize the PBLH determination from the ceilometers (Vaisala CL51 and Lufft CHM15k) product. The PBLHs from the two ceilometers and lidar show good consistency (R2=0.68~0.88) during the convective PBL period at 15:00-21:00 UTC (10:00-16:00 EST). We also investigate the seasonal variation and diurnal evolution of PBLH and demonstrate an inverse relation between the PBLH and PM2.5 during the morning transient period of PBLH growth. Further, the correlation between the ceilometer-attenuated backscatter and ground PM2.5 and its dependences on the vertical altitude are analyzed, showing that the aerosols in the PBL are more deeply mixed while also being influenced by the relatively high humidity variability during the summer.

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