January 2022 Newsletter: That’s a wrap on 2022
That's a wrap on 2022 2022 was quite the year for us, full of changes, growth, and new opportunities. We said goodbye to 2022 from a new office space (you have to check out the roof deck) joined by new team members who worked on projects in neighborhoods across the...
December 2022 Newsletter: Teaming up for a sustainable transportation hub in the South Bronx!
Transforming transportation for a sustainable community Governor Kathy Hochul and NYSERDA announced The Bronx is Breathing: Reimagining a Cleaner Hunts Point as a $10 million winner of the New York Clean Neighborhoods Challenge. The challenge is part of the New York...
Corporate Social Responsibility – Changing the Game for Businesses of All Sizes
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has transformed our economy, our workplaces, and our world. One of the most significant changes was the relationship between corporations and the world around them. With the rise of the pandemic and its disproportionate effects on...
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...