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More Austerity Coming? Lessons From New York City's 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Marc Kagan
More Austerity Coming? Lessons From New York City's 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Marc Kagan
Publications and Research
Crises can be moments of opportunity, but it is not foreordained who will seize the ring. The Great Depression ultimately led to the New Deal/Great Society state and increasing equality. 1975 New York City fiscal crisis, on the other hand, laid the groundwork for decades of neoliberal austerity. Despite political vulnerabilities, bankers and their Washington allies acted boldly to protect imperiled assets and remake a city in which the working class wielded some power as a bastion of finance capital. Seemingly powerful unions abandoned the public they served, and followed a risk-averse strategy of concessions in exchange for junior-partner corporatism, …
Gentrification And The South Bronx: Demographic And Socioeconomic Transformations In Bronx Community District #1, Lawrence Cappello
Gentrification And The South Bronx: Demographic And Socioeconomic Transformations In Bronx Community District #1, Lawrence Cappello
Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies
Introduction:
In recent decades skyrocketing real estate values throughout New York City have prompted residents to seek out reasonably priced housing and speculative investment opportunities in traditionally poorer neighborhoods. This is commonly referred to as “gentrification."
This report examines the extent of gentrification in the South Bronx neighborhoods of Melrose, Mott Haven, and Port Morris – officially designated Bronx Community District #1 – widely known as one of New York City’s prominent Latino areas. It presents key socioeconomic and demographic trends between 1990 and 2017. It also looks at topics such as employment, income structures, poverty rates, language acquisition, race/ethnicity, …
Report From New York City, Two, Or Here I Go Again, Marleen S. Barr
Report From New York City, Two, Or Here I Go Again, Marleen S. Barr
Publications and Research
This is Marleen S. Barr's description of living through the corona virus horror in New York City. Barr is a science fiction scholar who views her experience through a science fiction lens.