New York

Debates

Building a Resilient and Equitable City: How to Advance Environmental Justice Through the OneNYC Plan

Eddie Bautista & Annel Hernandez & Juan Camilo Osorio & Pamela Soto - 1 March 2017

Many of the challenges that cities face today stem from historic and entrenched systemic policies and processes that...

Interviews

“Build a Wall”: The Wrong Solution for Our Coastal Problems. An Interview with Jennifer Mattei

Jennifer H. Mattei & Lisa Jean Moore - 7 February 2017

Metropolitics editorial committee member and sociologist Lisa Jean Moore interviewed biologist Jennifer Mattei, an...

Debates

On Our Own: Protecting and Developing Social Housing in the Trump Era

John Krinsky - 13 January 2017

In response to a tense post-election moment in the US, the Metropolitics editorial committee has initiated...

Reviews

Closed Quarters

William Helmreich - 13 December 2016

As we contemplate an era marked by official hostility to fair-housing laws, we would do well to heed the distinction...

From the Field

Proclaiming “Veggie Pride” in Paris and New York

Elizabeth Cherry - 22 November 2016

How do animal-rights activists promote vegetarianism? Many activists use environmental and health arguments, but this...

Reviews

Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York

Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Christina Mitrakos - 21 October 2016

Frederick Wiseman’s fortieth documentary film, In Jackson Heights (2015), returns to an urban theme explored in...

From the Field

Building a Multifaceted Campaign for Public Higher Education

Stephen Brier & Michael Fabricant - 4 October 2016

In their new book, Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education, Michael Fabricant and Stephen...

From the Field

“We Are the Scene”: Alternative Art Economies in Bushwick

Mary Kosut - 13 September 2016

Artists and art communities are essential to the cultural life of cities. In New York City, artists have created...

From the Field

“Harriet Jacobs didn’t learn to read and write so that she could get an A”

C. Ray Borck - 3 May 2016

Confronted by school systems that persistently reproduce race- and class-based educational inequality, how can...

From the Field

Where Did the Bees Go? New York City Beekeeping Amid Ecological Crises

Mary Kosut & Lisa Jean Moore - 5 April 2016

The decline and extinction of bees and other pollinators threatens the global food supply. Residents in cities like...

Reviews

Neighborhood Change and the Right to the City

Adam Tanaka - 29 March 2016

New York City’s Stuyvesant Town is the largest housing development in Manhattan, and also one of the most...

From the Field

The Hollowing-Out of New York City’s Industrial Zones

Tarry Hum - 16 February 2016

At a November 2015 press conference, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to take action to ensure that firms in the...

Essays

Parallel Lives? Elena Ferrante’s Naples and My West New Rochelle

Bella Mirabella - 26 January 2016

Elena Ferrante’s acclaimed Neapolitan novels, which trace the lives of two girls born in a working class district in...

Debates

To Prevent Worsening Inequality, Put Affluent Neighborhoods on NYC Rezoning List

Moses Gates - 17 November 2015

Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning is meant to boost the affordable housing supply and create more economically integrated...

Debates

Artists and Industry: Friends or Foes?

Paul Parkhill - 3 November 2015

Anti-gentrification activists have castigated artists’ lofts as the vanguard of gentrification, while cities have...

Essays

Managing New York City’s Rental Housing Catastrophe: The Once and Future Potential of Tax-Foreclosed Properties

John Krinsky - 20 October 2015

New York City faces a rental housing crisis, with homelessness at record levels, more than a million households...

Essays

The Political Aesthetics of Drag

Shaka McGlotten - 13 October 2015

Drag, or the diverse art form and culture of performance that typically plays with gender and sex, is an integral...

Debates

The Endangered Enclave

Mike Owen Benediktsson & Brian Lamberta & Sarah Van Norden - 6 October 2015

While most gentrification studies focus on residential displacement, businesses also suffer from rising rents and a...

Debates

Disarm the Police

Gregory Smithsimon - 29 September 2015

In the current political debates about discriminatory policing, there has been a lack of serious discussion of...

Debates

New York’s de Blasio bargains with FIRE

Tom Waters - 16 June 2015

Frantic deal-making over an obscure but costly New York City real-estate tax incentive (421‑a) provides a window into...

From the Field

Taking Research to the Streets

Jonathan R. Wynn & Richard E. Ocejo - 9 June 2015

Residents of iconic neighborhoods in New York City have grown accustomed to walking tourism in their midst—clumps of...

Reviews

The Dangers of Security

Médéric Martin-Mazé & translated by Oliver Waine - 22 May 2015

In Against Security, Harvey Molotch highlights – through various examples, including the New York subway, airports,...

Essays

In Cathedrals of Craft: Workplaces for the New Elite Service, Retail, and Manual Labor Jobs

Richard E. Ocejo - 12 May 2015

As artisanal economies emerge in postindustrial cities, the symbolic language and craft culture of the industrial...

From the Field

Social Norms and Resistance on the City Bus

Sofya Aptekar - 5 May 2015

While subways are hailed as the quintessential New York experience, with their own museum, T-shirts, and lore, the...

Reviews

Constructing Crises

Marla Nelson - 23 February 2015

A new book by Kevin Fox Gotham and Miriam Greenberg foregrounds the disturbing parallels between two seemingly...

From the Field

When Predator Becomes Prey: Rental Housing in Low-Income Minority Neighborhoods

Clément Théry - 2 February 2015

In the growing low-income rental market, predator and prey roles can shift, as landlords and tenants alike can fall...

Debates

Interrupting Inequality: Crisis and Opportunity in Low-Income Housing Policy

Susan Saegert - 26 January 2015

Inequality in the United States is deeply rooted in issues of property ownership, wealth, race and class....

Essays

Looking Backward into the Future of New York

Ted Steinberg - 12 January 2015

Can the lesson of Hurricane Sandy dampen the enthusiasm of New York City’s growth machine? Ted Steinberg, author of...

From the Field

The Horseshoe Crab, our Environment and our Health

Lisa Jean Moore - 15 December 2014

Will we erase all animal diversity in the name of modernity, or will we follow the hints given by the study of the...

From the Field

Participatory Budgeting in New York City

Celina Su - 1 December 2014

Over the last four years, participatory budgeting has spread from one to more than 45 cities in the US. Reporting...

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