“You Will Not Be Able to Stay Home, [Sister]”

2018 ◽  
pp. 199-212
Author(s):  
Joseph R. Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Black Community ◽  
York City ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
Freedom Struggle ◽  
Black Residents

The chapter starts by describing Gloria Richardson’s new life in New York City, but the story quickly moves back to Cambridge, Maryland. There, in the summer of 1967, she facilitated Black Power activist H. Rap Brown’s visit to speak to black residents who were continuing their freedom struggle. A massive fire in the city’s black community on the night of Brown’s visit was caused by arson and not, as is popularly believed, by black people rioting. That summer also saw the first gathering of Black Power advocates from around the country at the National Conference on Black Power in Newark, New Jersey. Richardson attended this event and was excited about Black Power’s potential to push the freedom struggle forward. Finally, the chapter covers her assessment of Black Power, specifically, its emphasis on black consciousness, and Stokely Carmichael’s and other Black Nationalists’ political strategies for achieving black liberation.

Freedom of the Air in the United States

1931 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-251
Author(s):  
Blewett Lee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Inland Waters ◽  
State Board

On September 15, 1930, the State Board of Commerce and Navigation of New Jersey made a ruling that aircraft would not be permitted to land on any New Jersey waters above tidewater within the jurisdiction of the state. The application had been made for permission to operate a five passenger flying boat between Nolan's Point, Lake Hopatcong, a vacation resort, and New York City, and to set off a portion of the lake to make a landing place for the hydroairplane. It was stated that other inland waters in New Jersey were being used for a similar purpose, and the ground of the refusal was that aircraft flying from water constituted a menace to surface navigation. This ruling created considerable newspaper comment and aroused vigorous protest from persons interested in aviation, and by order of October 20, 1930, the ruling was limited to Lake Hopatcong.

VARIATIONS OF VERTICAL GRAVITY GRADIENT IN NEW YORK CITY AND ALPINE, NEW JERSEY

Geophysics ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Kuo ◽  
Mario Ottaviani ◽  
Shri K. Singh
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
York City ◽  
Gravity Data ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Absolute Gravity ◽  
Gravity Gradient ◽  
Vertical Gravity Gradient

Careful gravity measurements with La Coste‐Romberg geodetic gravimeters were carried out in tall buildings on a floor‐to‐floor basis in New York City and on the Armstrong Tower, Alpine, New Jersey. Corrections for the instrumental drift and tidal gravity variation and for the Bouguer effect, topography, mass of the buildings, and subway and basement excavations have been applied to the gravity data, which are tied to the absolute gravity value of the National Gravity Base Station of Washington, D. C. The observed gravity versus elevation curves are nonlinear, particularly near the surface of the ground; the slope of the observed gravity anomaly versus elevation curves reverses sign at an elevation of about 170 ft for the campus buildings and about 350 ft for the downtown buildings, and is nearly linear without a reversal for the Armstrong Tower. The vertical gradients vary substantially even within short distances. Comparisons of the corrected observed gradients with the theoretical gradients of gravity are made. The anomalous gradient anomalies are positive and are correlated with the positive isostatic surface gravity anomalies. Calibration of gravimeters against the observed vertical gradient of gravity to an accuracy of ±2 μgal is definitely feasible provided the gradient is predetermined to a comparable accuracy by a standard instrument.

scholarly journals Migration of households from New York City and the Second Peak in Covid-19 cases in New Jersey, Connecticut and New York Counties.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam T Schulman ◽  
Gyan Bhanot
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
York City ◽  
Infectious Agent ◽  
The United States ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
Address Data ◽  
Second Peak

The five boroughs of New York City (NYC) were early epicenters of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, with over 380,000 cases by May 31. High caseloads were also seen in nearby counties in New Jersey (NJ), Connecticut (CT) and New York (NY). The pandemic started in the area in March with an exponential rise in the number of daily cases, peaked in early April, briefly declined, and then, showed clear signs of a second peak in several counties. We will show that despite control measures such as lockdown and restriction of movement during the exponential rise in daily cases, there was a significant net migration of households from NYC boroughs to the neighboring counties in NJ, CT and NY State. We propose that the second peak in daily cases in these counties around NYC was due, in part, to the movement of people from NYC boroughs to these counties. We estimate the movement of people using "Change of Address" (CoA) data from the US Postal Service, provided under the "Freedom of Information Act" of 1967. To identify the timing of the second peak and the number of cases in it, we use a previously proposed SIR model, which accurately describes the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic in European countries. Subtracting the model fits from the data identified, we establish the timing and the number of cases, NCS, in the second peak. We then related the number of cases in the second peak to the county population density, P, and the excess Change of Address, ECoA, into each county using the simple model N_CS~P^α E_CoA^β which fits the data very well with α = 0.68, β = 0.31 (R^2 = 0.74, p = 1.3e-8). We also find that the time between the first and second peaks was proportional to the distance of the county seat from NY Penn Station, suggesting that this migration of households and disease was a directed flow and not a diffusion process. Our analysis provides a simple method to use change of address data to track the spread of an infectious agent, such as SARS-Cov-2, due to migrations away from epicenters during the initial stages of a pandemic.

scholarly journals Sports Fandom: Reflection of a Cultural Mosaic

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddharth Sundararajan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Young People ◽  
York City ◽  
Black People ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Sports Fandom ◽  
Random Samples ◽  
The City ◽  
Demographic Features

This paper explores the origins of sports fandom and the various factors that impact it. It reports results from an experiment which measures support of two NBA teams based in New York City.  Interviews of random samples were collected, totalling 234 entries, with key demographic features collected from each interviewee. The analysis reveals that there are differences in fandom with respect to certain demographic features, especially race, age, and location. It shows that Black people are more than 3.5 times as likely to support the Nets over the Knicks, and that young people are 2 times as likely to support the Nets. The further way from New York a person was born, the less likely they are to support the Nets. People living in Manhattan are less likely to support the Nets. Overall, the data highlights how personal choices can be influenced by factors you can’t control, and the results expose a divide within the melting pot in the City of Dreams.

Picturing Black Fugitivity and Respectability in New York City

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-64
Author(s):  
Aston Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Black People ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Slave Narratives ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scientific Racism ◽  
Fugitive Slaves

This chapter examines the images created by Patrick Henry Reason of New York City during the 1830s. He applied the British antislavery symbol of the kneeling slave to fit the context of slavery in the United States and worked with the American Anti-Slavery Society to circulate his images widely. His engravings of formerly enslaved people depicted alternative ways to visualize fugitive slaves and people of African descent more generally. Thousands purchased these escaped slave narratives that featured images of black respectability. Individually and collectively, these representations of black people simultaneously rejected scientific racism and drew upon the tactic of moral suasion to encourage viewers to join the cause of abolition. Reason’s images rejected visual and print that contained racial stereotypes and the reception of Reason’s images reveals how viewers understood them to advance the antislavery movement.

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