Circular Economies: Accelerating Sustainable Consumption through Reuse
Sustainability is one of New York City’s central goals for the next 30 years. In the OneNYC 2050 plan, the city set carbon neutrality by 2050 as a goal, seeking 100% clean electricity, elimination of single-use plastics, a carbon neutral fleet of city vehicles by...
What Public Works is Reading, Watching, and Listening To!
Allison Quigney, Principal I'm reading...Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner I'm watching...I'm very happy to have finally gone back to the movie theater for Top Gun: Maverick and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. Also very excited about season 3 of Never Have I Ever...
September 2022 Newsletter: See you at an event this fall! (We’ll be at lots of them)
Falling for Workforce Development at Niagara We are proud to sponsor and present at the NYATEP 2022 Fall Conference for Workforce and Economic Development on October 3-5 in Niagara Falls, NY. Our panel, “Building Partnerships Between Small Higher Education...
Scootering into the Future: Micromobility and Public-Private Partnerships in New York City Transit
In August 2021, New York City joined the scooter revolution via a pilot program in the East Bronx spanning from the neighborhood of East Chester to Van Nest. This e-scooter pilot program, in partnership with Lime, Bird, and Veo, was implemented here to reach transit...
August 2022 Newsletter: Boy, it’s hot out there!
The Dog Days of Summer: What's Up with this Heat? New Yorkers saw a record-breaking heat wave at the end of July, which will only get longer and more frequent as the threat of climate change worsens. Across the country, heat waves often disproportionately impact...
What Can We Do to Improve Community Policing Initiatives?
Fundamentally restructuring police systems nationwide to be more emblematic of community policing models is easier said than done. Nationwide integration of community policing practices has to overcome meandering political will, a lack of standardization and...
What Stands in the Way of Community Policing?
Lack of Standardization In our last piece, I discussed that despite the ubiquitousness of the term community policing, it is rather ambiguous and municipalities have failed to institutionalize the practice. Looking at the history of the New York Police Department’s...
What’s the Deal with Community Policing?
Community policing is a term that is used a lot in discussion of police department reform and accountability measures. I don’t just mean that it is common amongst activists and civil rights leaders, but within police departments themselves. The term community policing...
The Dog Days of Summer: Why NYC is so hot and what we can do about it
It's hot out there New York City and the surrounding area saw a record-breaking heat wave at the end of July. Newark, New Jersey saw five straight days of temperatures over 100-degrees, the longest such streak ever. Sweltering temperatures are a real threat–extreme...
Kids, Baseball, and Summer in the City: Why Investing in Our Young People Matters
Summer in New York City has always meant venturing out to enjoy the warmth, energy, and life of the City. For many young people, this has meant playing sports. Whether it be heading to the nearest basketball court for a pickup game, the local park with a soccer ball,...