scholarly journals Modes of Belonging: Debating School Demographics in Gentrifying New York

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Freidus
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Demographic Change ◽  
York City ◽  
School Quality ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
Individual Property ◽  
Student Demographics ◽  
School Demographics

This article examines the frameworks that stakeholders bring to debates about diversifying schools in gentrifying areas of New York City. Using critical ethnographic methods, I explore stakeholders’ hopes and fears about the effects of shifting school demographics and the relationships between student demographics and school quality. I find that stakeholders use racialized discourses of belonging to discuss whether, why, and how student demographics matter. These discourses of belonging overlap with perceptions of demographic change as opportunities for integration, fears of gentrification, and threats to individual property. Complicating celebrations of ‘‘diversity,’’ I explore the ways in which race is implicated in considerations of who belongs in a school and to whom a school belongs.

scholarly journals Modes of Belonging: Debating School Demographics in Gentrifying New York

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 808-839
Author(s):  
Alexandra Freidus
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Demographic Change ◽  
York City ◽  
School Quality ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
Individual Property ◽  
Student Demographics ◽  
School Demographics

This article examines the frameworks that stakeholders bring to debates about diversifying schools in gentrifying areas of New York City. Using critical ethnographic methods, I explore stakeholders’ hopes and fears about the effects of shifting school demographics and the relationships between student demographics and school quality. I find that stakeholders use racialized discourses of belonging to discuss whether, why, and how student demographics matter. These discourses of belonging overlap with perceptions of demographic change as opportunities for integration, fears of gentrification, and threats to individual property. Complicating celebrations of “diversity,” I explore the ways in which race is implicated in considerations of who belongs in a school and to whom a school belongs.

Concentrated Foreclosure Activity and Distressed Properties in New York City

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 868-897
Author(s):  
Kristin L. Perkins ◽  
Michael J. Lear ◽  
Elyzabeth Gaumer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Lower Probability ◽  
Sociodemographic Characteristics ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Individual Property ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
The Subject

Recent research suggests that foreclosures have negative effects on homeowners and neighborhoods. We examine the association between concentrated foreclosure activity and the risk of a property with a foreclosure filing being scheduled for foreclosure auction in New York City. Controlling for individual property and sociodemographic characteristics of the neighborhood, being located in a tract with a high number of auctions following the subject property’s own foreclosure filing is associated with a significantly higher probability of scheduled foreclosure auction for the subject property. Concentration of foreclosure filings prior to the subject property’s own foreclosure filing is associated with a lower probability of scheduled foreclosure auction. Concentrated foreclosure auctions in the tract prior to a subject property’s own filing is not significantly associated with the probability of scheduled foreclosure auction. The implications for geographic targeting of foreclosure policy interventions are discussed.

scholarly journals Short-Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 119-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonah Rockoff ◽  
Lesley J Turner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Student Achievement ◽  
York City ◽  
School Quality ◽  
Regression Discontinuity ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
School Closure ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Short Run

In the fall of 2007, New York City began using student tests and other measures to assign each school a grade (A to F), and linked grades to rewards and consequences, including possible school closure. These grades were released in late September, arguably too late for schools to make major changes in programs or personnel, and students were tested again in January (English) and March (math). Despite this time frame, regression discontinuity estimates indicate that receipt of a low grade significantly increased student achievement, more so in math than English, and improved parental evaluations of school quality. (JEL H75, I21, I28, J45)

Multiple Eviction: An Investigation of Chain Displacement in Dane County, Wisconsin

2019 ◽  
pp. 107808741988611
Author(s):  
J. Revel Sims ◽  
Alicia Adelle Iverson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Demographic Change ◽  
York City ◽  
Demographic Transition ◽  
Geocoded Data

Within a context dominated by the seemingly paradoxical juxtaposition of gentrification and abandonment in New York City during the early 1980s, Peter Marcuse developed an influential typology of displacement that can be conceptualized as a movement from the most readily observable forms of “last-resident” displacement to increasingly less measurable forms of “exclusionary displacement” and “displacement pressure.” While the typology depends heavily on the explanatory frame of demographic transition and the movement out of space, Marcuse also included the possibility of a contradictory form of “chain displacement” that often occurs in non- and/or pregentrification spaces without demographic change. Using geocoded data from 16 years of eviction records in Dane County Wisconsin, this research not only demonstrates the existence of chain displacement within specific neighborhoods, but also exposes sites of “multiple eviction” that combine with forms of disadvantage and relative demographic “stability” rather than patterns more characteristic of gentrification processes.

An Important Armenian MS. with Greek Miniatures

1942 ◽  
Vol 74 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 155-162
Author(s):  
H. Kurdian
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Christian Iconography

In 1941 while in New York City I was fortunate enough to purchase an Armenian MS. which I believe will be of interest to students of Eastern Christian iconography.

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.

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