Introduction to the Species Accounts

2018 ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
P. A. Buckley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Long Island ◽  
Quantitative Distribution ◽  
The Core ◽  
First Time ◽  
Extended Discussion ◽  
Winter Population ◽  
Quantitative Assessments

The core of this book, offering qualitative and quantitative assessments of the migratory, breeding, wintering, and resident avifauna of the Northwest Bronx, New York City back to 1872. The present and historical statuses of 301 study area species and another 70 potential species are described in detail for the Bronx, for New York City, for Long Island, and for Westchester and Rockland Cos. for the first time since 1964. Study area winter population changes are amplified by comparison to their numbers on 90 annual Bronx-Westchester Christmas Bird Counts from 1924. Extended discussion of pertinent identification, ecological, taxonomic, and distributional issues complements the quantitative distribution and occurrence data and update all 371 species to 2016.

scholarly journals Analysis of major air pollutants and submicron particles in New York City and Long Island

2017 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 203-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Masiol ◽  
P.K. Hopke ◽  
H.D. Felton ◽  
B.P. Frank ◽  
O.V. Rattigan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Air Pollutants ◽  
Long Island ◽  
Submicron Particles

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Catherine Keyser
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

In The Great Gatsby (1925), Nick Carraway gazes upon the New York City skyline: Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty of the world....

Jason Miller

2020 ◽  
pp. 448-464
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Long Island ◽  
Coal Miner ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Eastern Pennsylvania ◽  
The University ◽  
Catholic University Of America

Born John Anthony Miller in Long Island City, Queens, New York City, playwright and actor Jason Miller had deep connections to the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. The son of Irish American parents and grandson of a coal miner, Miller was reared in the Lackawana Valley. After earning a BA from the University of Scranton and studying theater at the Catholic University of America, Miller lived in New York City to pursue a career in acting and playwriting....

The Debs Way

2019 ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Leo Huberman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Core Beliefs ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Core ◽  
History Of

This reprise of "The Debs Way"—the text of an address Huberman delivered at the Debs Centennial Meeting held at the Fraternal Clubhouse in New York City on November 28, 1955—not only reminds us of the importance of Eugene Debs to the history of socialism in the United States, but also brings out some of the core beliefs of Huberman's own approach to socialism. Today's conditions are of course vastly different from when Huberman wrote this, more than sixty years ago. There is now a resurgence of the left in the United States, but the basic principles that Huberman derived from Debs remain relevant.

Impact of Transit Fare Increase on Ridership and Revenue

2005 ◽  
Vol 1927 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Hickey
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Percentage Increase ◽  
Price Changes ◽  
Spreadsheet Model ◽  
Transit Agencies ◽  
Work Done ◽  
First Time

On May 4, 2003, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's New York City Transit subsidiary (NYCT) raised its subway and bus fares for the first time since discounted and unlimited-ride MetroCards (electronic fare cards) were introduced between July 1997 and January 1999. Before the 2003 fare increase, the agency did not have any experience with either the direct ridership effects of price changes for unlimited-ride passes or the shift of customers when prices of different fare media increased at different rates and customers could shift from one fare medium to another. Partly on the basis of work done by other transit agencies, NYCT developed a spreadsheet model that used direct fare elasticities to estimate absolute ridership loss and used trip diversion rates (similar to cross-elasticities) to estimate the likelihood that passengers would shift from a fare instrument with a larger percentage increase to one with a smaller increase. The actual shift of customers between fare instruments after the fare increase was greater than projected, with the result of a lower than expected systemwide average fare. The negative revenue impact from the lower average fare was mostly offset by a lower than expected ridership decline. The estimated fare elasticities were below the average of historical NYCT fare elasticities and suggest that customers using unlimited-ride passes were less sensitive to fare changes.

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