Urban Studies
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East New York Rezoning: Communities Respond
The first of the de Blasio administration’s neighborhood rezonings was unveiled at the end of September with the East New York plan: an ambitious document that includes mandatory affordable housing, new parks, bike lanes, and a 1,000-seat school. While the Department of City Planning (DCP) claims that 50 percent of housing built over the next 15 years under…
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Debating Criminal Justice Reform
For more on this topic, join us at the Murphy Institute on October 19th for this month’s Labor Forum: Black Lives Matter & the Fight for Fifteen: A New Social Movement? When looking to reform our obviously broken criminal justice and carceral system, at what point must we examine the structural causes of urban crime? Can we…
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More Press for Black Silent Majority
Murphy Prof. Michael Fortner’s new book Black Silent Majority: the Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment has taken the media world by storm, garnering press from publications, radio and television. In addition to coverage in the New Yorker and Chronicle of Higher Ed, the book has been featured in the NYTimes and New York…
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Two Men Named David: A 9/11 Miracle
Photo features Officer David W. Lim and Urban Studies Graduate Student David T. Boyd (3/9/01) By David T. Boyd It’s not often that a series of unrelated occurrences come full circle, especially in connection to the tragic events of September 11th, but a few short weeks ago I made one of the most amazing discoveries of…
