climate change
UrbaNERD: Hooray, it’s Kale Day!
Jasmine Pierce |
A school goes veggie, New York gets hotter and Google becomes an even bigger part of our lives—all that and more in our weekly roundup of ICYMI reads.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
UrbaNERD: What You Missed While Kanye Was Talking
Jasmine Pierce |
What are the voices in your head telling you? Hopefully it’s to take a look at these articles on school discipline, millennials at home, tax reform, fashion week and the bard of the Harlem Renaissance.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
UrbaNERD: Neighborhood Ranking Reflects Degrees of Inequality
Jarrett Murphy |
What Canarsie means for the rest of us, what the NYPD’s early history tells us about policing today and the grim, unheralded work of the nation’s accident investigators.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
UrbaNERD: Plowing Through Snow Policy After the Great White Nope
Jarrett Murphy |
Predicting the next snow response, watching “the wave” hit East New York, linking homeless kids to child care and more in this week’s rundown of must-reads for urban enthusiasts.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
UrbaNERD: Time to Think About Our ‘Ferguson Moment’
Jasmine Pierce |
Research and reporting on the complex mix of race and geography, the minimum wage, youthful offenders and the ever-present threat of … out-of-state cars?
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
UrbaNERD: Cop Riot Deja Vu
Jarrett Murphy |
The parallel between the current cop-mayor turmoil and the 1992 incident is that the quick, popular explanation for the discord is not the full one.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
UrbaNERD: A very brief history of the right to offend in NYC
Jarrett Murphy |
This week’s UrbaNERD looks at episodes in New York’s past where freedom of expression meant the freedom to offend. Also, new stuff on housing, wages and debt.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
UrbaNERD: De Blasio v. Lynch, Place v. People, Rudolph v. Fog
Jarrett Murphy |
The disagreement between Bill de Blasio and Pat Lynch might look like an argument between a politician and a cop. But really it’s an argument between a politician … and a politician. Background on that fight, the debate over concentrated poverty and more.
broadband
UrbaNERD: On Broadband and Race, Cops and Suicide
Jarrett Murphy |
A study finds that New York State is a pretty unequal place when it comes to high-speed broadband. And behind this week’s headlines are important stories about police suicides, NYPD discipline, charter schools and more.
Brooklyn
UrbaNERD: Are Gentrification Fears Overblown?
Jarrett Murphy |
New research suggests high poverty is a bigger threat to cities. More on that, shoddy charter school finances, tuition assistance that falls short, a vulnerable neighborhood and a new Census tool in our weekly rundown of urban research and reporting.
