Center for an Urban Future
NYC Inc: Working Assets
Bruce G. Herman |
Government should help employers hang on to their workers during tough times–it’s certainly cheaper than unemployment checks.
Center for an Urban Future
City Lit: How to Be a Starving Artist
Bill Roundy |
The Murdering of My Years: Artists and Activists Making Ends Meet, edited by Mickey Z, and Memoir of a Visionary by Antonia Pantoja
Center for an Urban Future
THE CITY'S BURDEN
K. Wright |
New York City lost nearly 58,000 jobs last year while the city’s six closest suburbs gained almost 39,000.
Center for an Urban Future
NYC Inc: Learning From Labor
David Jason Fischer |
Job trainers and their government funders should take a careful look at the most successful employment prep groups out there: unions.
Center for an Urban Future
NYC Inc: Westward, Whoa!
Jonathan Bowles |
With virtually no public discussion, the plan for Far West Midtown is going full speed ahead.
Center for an Urban Future
BUDGET BRAWL, ROUND ONE
K. Wright |
Saying help from Albany is unlikely, Mayor Bloomberg turned the heat up on labor in this morning’s budget speech.
Bronx
WILLIAMSBURG IN THE BRONX
K. Wright |
South Bronx has launched a plan to bring culture seekers into the borough’s would be arts corridor.
Center for an Urban Future
City Lit: Summer in the City
David Jason Fischer |
Heat Wave by Eric Klinenberg
University of Chicago Press, $27.50, 305 pages
Center for an Urban Future
INS AND OUTS
Jill Grossman |
A longtime leader of one of New York’s oldest foundations takes a bow, and a lobbyist for tenant organizing cash joins a foundation to give some away.
Staten Island
NYC Inc: Doing Our Marketing
David Hochman |
New York’s collection of livable neighborhoods should attract businesses looking for places that make their workers happy, but you wouldn’t know that if you listened to city officials.
