New York

Debates

The Banality of Innovation: Mythic Discourse and the Long Road to Shore Power in New York City

Iain McDavid - 3 December 2024

If the New York City Economic Development Corporation is committed to the city’s “green transformation, ” then why is...

Debates

When Rising Expectations Meet Rising Reaction: New York’s 2024 Housing Policy Fight and the Prospects for the Future

Oksana Mironova & Samuel Stein - 10 September 2024

How did New York housing policy fare with Democratic control of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of...

Reviews

Reflecting on the New York Commune at 20 Years

Daphne Lundi - 9 April 2024

What happened in the decades after the Hunts Point Insurrection? M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi use speculative...

Reviews

Finding the People’s City

Benjamin Holtzman - 26 March 2024

In A People’s Guide to New York City, Carolina Bank Muñoz, Penny Lewis and Emily Tumpson Molina provide an engaging...

Essays

Breaking Down the NYPD: How Reconsidering Political District Maps Could Open New Doors to Police Accountability

Toby Irving - 16 February 2024

Efforts to stem the power of the NYPD and the violence such power facilitates require accountability to the people...

From the Field

Walking and Knowing New York City

Michael B. Kahan - 2 February 2024

“What can we learn and what can we know about a city like New York by walking through it?” Reflecting on his...

From the Field

Regulating Basement Conversions in New York City

Ooha Uppalapati - 14 July 2023

Ooha Uppalapati examines the regulation of basement apartments in New York City and the implications of proposed...

From the Field

¡Yo soy Boricua! Identity-related work and collective elevation strategies among New York Puerto Ricans

Audrey Célestine & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 May 2023

Puerto Ricans in New York City form a minority group in the struggle against discrimination. Audrey Célestine shows...

Reviews

An American in Marseille

Olivier Gaudin & translated by Oliver Waine - 17 March 2023

In his latest work, Marseille, Port to Port, the New York-based ethnographer William Kornblum paints a rich and...

Essays

Navigating Jefes Fantasmas in New York City’s Urban Platform Economy

Jackson Todd - 3 March 2023

How has the “platform economy” altered urban life, infrastructure, and labor? Jackson Todd examines New York City’s...

Essays

Visualizing “Superdiversity” in New York City

H. Jacob Carlson - 8 November 2022

A new set of visualization and mapping tools focused on “superdiversity” shows the complexity and intersectionality...

Reviews

New York City’s Descent into Neoliberal Policy: A Review of Benjamin Holtzman’s The Long Crisis

John Krinsky - 19 July 2022

Benjamin Holtzman’s The Long Crisis tells the story of New York’s prolonged descent into neoliberal policy. For those...

Debates

Depending on a Curse: What History Tells Us About Property-Tax Reform in New York City

Daniel Wortel-London - 12 July 2022

Daniel Wortel-London discusses New York’s discriminatory policies and taxes and asks: can a tax system as cumbersome...

Debates

The Second Coming of the Accessory Dwelling Unit

Joseph Weil Huennekens - 26 October 2021

Joseph Weil Huennekens discusses the history of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in the context of housing in the...

From the Field

Covid-19 Transformed New York’s Destination Food Markets

Ivana Mellers - 5 October 2021

Ivana Mellers analyzes how New York’s destination markets—key spaces of economic and social interactions—coped during...

From the Field

Between Two Crises: New York’s Artisanal Food Startup Founders

Nga Than - 28 September 2021

The Covid‑19 pandemic forced a pause to a decade of growth for New York City’s artisanal food startups. Strategies...

From the Field

Can the New Economy Survive without Coffee Shops (and Their Wi‑Fi)?

Thomas R. Chung - 21 September 2021

Thomas R. Chung argues that coffee shops play an important role in the creative and tech sectors of the...

Series

New York Dossier: The Food Industry Faces the Covid‑19 Pandemic

Sharon Zukin - 14 September 2021

Metropolitics is pleased to present the second dossier coordinated by faculty and students in the PhD program in...

Reviews

Queens, New York: A Global Microcosm

Susie J. Tanenbaum - 4 May 2021

Susie J. Tanenbaum reviews Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York,...

From the Field

Manifested Stories

Rebecca Blythe Pryor - 5 January 2021

Rebecca Pryor traces the history of the revitalization of the Bronx River, illustrating an alternative narrative to...

From the Field

Cleaning and Care Worker Cooperatives in NYC: Empowerment Through Collectivization of Labor

Nora Komposch - 8 December 2020

Worker cooperatives have been shown to reduce precariousness and economic exclusion of marginalized groups....

From the Field

The Financialization of Rent-Regulated Housing in New York City after Rent Reform

Benjamin F. Teresa - 4 December 2020

In New York City, rent-controlled housing stock has been progressively deregulated over the last three decades, to...

From the Field

The Contestations and Contradictions of the New York City Housing Authority’s Plan for Mixed-Income Redevelopment

Valerie E. Stahl - 10 November 2020

The New York City Housing Authority, faced with a capital shortfall of nearly $40 billion, is pursuing a series of...

Essays

Consent-Based Social Dancing Spaces and the Right to the City

Rebecca Krisel - 30 June 2020

Consent-based programs in social dancing venues in New York City are an initial step in supporting social dancing...

Essays

Homeless Theory and Research Collaboration: A Tribute to Nikita Price

Eric Goldfischer & Odilka Santiago - 9 June 2020

At a time when too many people are dying, Eric Goldfischer and Odilka Santiago remember Nikita Price of Picture the...

Essays

When Measurement Matters: Displacement, Gentrification, Residential Mobility

H. Jacob Carlson - 14 April 2020

Scholarly studies of displacement resulting from gentrification are inconsistent in what they measure, and omit...

From the Field

A Construction Boom in an Urban Floodplain: Long Island City, Queens, NYC

Christopher Ryan - 11 February 2020

New York City has encouraged development in Long Island City, Queens, even as the neighborhood has not recovered...

Essays

New York Tech Dossier: Insecure Frontier Jobs? Staying Relevant in New York’s Tech Ecosystem

Max Papadantonakis - 21 January 2020

“Frontier” jobs in digital technologies promise lucrative career paths, but Max Papadantonakis’s research suggests...

Essays

New York Tech Dossier: The Declining Significance of Proximity in Venture Capital Investments

Joanna Dressel - 14 January 2020

Venture capital investment in New York City has increased over the last decade, contributing to the development of...

Essays

New York Tech Dossier: “Innovation Districts” in New York: Contentious Geographies of Growth

Sharon Zukin - 7 January 2020

Sharon Zukin analyzes how city government in New York has supported concentrations of tech firms—“innovation...

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