Managers At Work: A Large-Scale Study Of The Managerial Job in New York City Government

1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 613-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Allan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
City Government ◽  
Large Scale Study

When Cities Borrow State Power: New York State's Empire State Development Corporation in New York City

2021 ◽  
pp. 107808742110671
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Marcello
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Local Level ◽  
City Government ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
State Development ◽  
Development Corporation ◽  
City State

Since the late 1960's New York State's Urban Development Corporation (UDC), now operating as the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC), has been leveraged by New York City government to pursue large-scale projects. This paper examines two cases from New York City in which the city borrowed a state-controlled public authority's power to accomplish projects initiated at the local level: the case of Queens West, a development in western Queens, proposed in the early 1980s, and the case of Columbia - Manhattanville, an expansion of the Columbia University campus into Harlem, announced in 2003. These cases highlight how cities might, at times, embrace state involvement rather than lament its restrictions or rue its indifference. The study concludes by suggesting a theoretical path for incorporating such a city-state dynamic.

Jane Jacobs

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-169
Author(s):  
Paul Kidder ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
York City ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Population Densities ◽  
Jane Jacobs ◽  
The People ◽  
Architectural Preservation ◽  
American Cities

Jane Jacobs’s classic 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, famously indicted a vision of urban development based on large scale projects, low population densities, and automobile-centered transportation infrastructure by showing that small plans, mixed uses, architectural preservation, and district autonomy contributed better to urban vitality and thus the appeal of cities. Implicit in her thinking is something that could be called “the urban good,” and recognizable within her vision of the good is the principle of subsidiarity—the idea that governance is best when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses—a principle found in Catholic papal encyclicals and related documents. Jacobs’s work illustrates and illuminates the principle of subsidiarity, not merely through her writings on cities, but also through her activism in New York City, which was influential in altering the direction of that city’s subsequent planning and development.

‘from a musical point of view, the world is musical at any given moment’: an interview with bill fontana

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
jøran rudi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
The World ◽  
American Composer ◽  
Brooklyn Bridge

bill fontana is an american composer and artist who has been working with large-scale sound installations since the 1970s. in his installations he recontextualises sounds by transmitting them from one location to another, and uses the transported sounds as acoustical ‘overlay’, masking the sounds naturally occurring in the installation spaces. his installations often occur in central urban environments, and he has, for example, been commissioned in conjunction with the fifty-year anniversary of d-day (1994, paris), and the 100-year anniversary of brooklyn bridge (1983, new york city).

scholarly journals Are Neighbors Friends or Foes? Assessing Airbnb Listings’ Agglomeration Effect in New York City

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen L. Xie ◽  
Linchi Kwok ◽  
Cindy Yoonjoung Heo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Operational Experience ◽  
Agglomeration Effect ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Econometric Analyses

This study investigates the agglomeration effect of Airbnb listings in New York City (NYC) and answers two research questions: (a) Does agglomeration benefit or hurt the performance of individual Airbnb listings? (b) How does the effect of agglomeration vary by hosts regarding their operational experience (measured by their capacity and tenure on Airbnb)? A series of econometric analyses using large-scale data of Airbnb in NYC reveal that agglomeration positively affects the revenue performance of each Airbnb listing. In addition, such an effect is strengthened as host tenure spans but mitigated as host capacity expands, indicating a nonsymmetric agglomeration effect across service providers. This research contributes an important but less researched perspective to the home-sharing literature. Managerial implications on leveraging agglomeration for improved revenue performance are provided to Airbnb and its hosts, as well as the hotel chains that want to combat Airbnb’s negative impacts or have already entered the short-term residential rental market to compete head-to-head with Airbnb.

Facilitating Pretrial Justice in New Orleans

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Wool
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
York City ◽  
Justice System ◽  
City Government ◽  
Pretrial Detention ◽  
The City

New Orleans in 2011 finds itself facing many of the same problems New York City faced in 1961 when the founders of the Vera Institute of Justice launched the Manhattan Bail Project: Too many people are held in pretrial detention who could be released without risk to public safety; the reliance on bail results in disparate outcomes based on financial ability; and the unnecessary detention of thousands of defendants each year imposes excessive costs on the city government and taxpayers, as well as on those needlessly detained. Vera is now working with New Orleans stakeholders to develop a comprehensive pretrial services system. Following in the footsteps of the Manhattan Bail Project, the work will create a carefully conceived and locally sensitive pretrial services system, one that will result in a fairer and more efficient criminal justice system and a safer community.

scholarly journals Factors Associated with COVID-19 Infection, Hospitalization and Death in New York City Neighborhoods

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Anna Gu ◽  
Hira Shafeeq ◽  
Ting Chen ◽  
Preety Gadhoke
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Community Intervention ◽  
City Government ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
City Community ◽  
Greenwich Village ◽  
Large Populations ◽  
Using Data

Background: A key to an effective Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Community Intervention is to understand populations who are most vulnerable to it. We aimed at evaluating characteristics of New York City communities where rates of confirmed COVID-19 cases were particularly high. Methods: The study outcomes - neighborhood-specific confirmed COVID-19 cases, positive tests, and COVID-19 attributable deaths were calculated using data extracted from the New York City government health website, which were linked to results from Community Health Survey. Distributions of study outcomes across New York City community districts and their associations with neighborhood characteristics were examined using Jonckheere-Terpstra tests. Results: As of May 21, 2010, rates of confirmed cases ranged from 0.8% (Greenwich Village and Soho) to 3.9% (Jackson Heights), and the rates of attributable death from to 0.6‰ (Greenwich Village and Soho) to 4.2‰ (Coney Island). Higher percentages of black, Hispanic and foreign-born populations, lower educational attainment, poverty, lack of health insurance, and suboptimal quality of health care were all factors found to be correlated with increased rates of confirmed COVID-19 cases.  Conclusions: The epidemiology of COVID-19 exhibited great variations among neighborhoods in New York City. Community interventions aimed at COVID-19 prevention and mitigation should place high priorities in areas with large populations of blacks and Hispanics and economically disadvantages areas.

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