Links related to class discussions
- Article on crisis in affordable housing: https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160225/crown-heights/even-people-who-earn-100k-year-fear-theyll-be-priced-out-of-new-york
- Creative Class Group website: http://www.creativeclass.com/
- Class-Divided Cities, New York Edition: http://www.citylab.com/housing/2013/01/class-divided-cities-new-york-edition/3819/
- Richard Florida on MSNBC, Working Class Neighborhoods Vanishing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1uSnBKvnjo
- Fran Lebowitz on New York & Andy Warhol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwrUBDxrGHI
- Williamsburg’s Bedford Avenue Among Priciest Retail Strips in the Country, Report Finds: http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2016/02/retail-rent-per-square-foot-nyc-brooklyn-bedford-avenue-court-street/
- Interview with Robert Caro on Robert Moses: http://gothamist.com/2016/02/17/robert_caro_author_interview.php
- Ken Burns documentary on the Cross-Bronx Expressway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9b5UrF8O-s&list=PL7ya0b9gItfj4b7eW59uHDwbMhiwiUZ9m
- Ken Burns documentary on Jane Jacobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUeuQT6t7kg
Prof. Alonso-approved Online Resources
Below are links to a number links to blogs, publications, and on-line resources that might be of interest. You can also access these links can also be accessed from the sidebar at the homepage. Find something that you think should be added here? Suggest it here!
- http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/
- http://www.brownstoner.com/
- http://newyorkyimby.com/
- http://ny.curbed.com/
- http://gothamist.com/
- http://therealdeal.com/
- http://gothamgazette.com/
- http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/
Quantitative Resources for contemporary data about New York
These links were crowdsourced using the suggestions of a number of Instructional Technology Fellows!
- New York Department of City Planning Population Division Website with publications, especially The Newest New Yorkers (2013)
- New York City Census FactFinder
- Census Bureau Website
- New York Department of Education data
- Bytes of the Big Apple, “software, data and geographic base map files for the City of New York.”
- Social Explorer and Infoshare. Social Explorer represents a lot of census data in graphical, map format, while Infoshare draws from a wider range of information sources, including “population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local trade data,” etc. Accessing Social Explorer through the Brooklyn College database will allow you greater functionality of use. Read more about Infoshare here and basic information about how to use both tools here.
- NYC Open Data and presentation about what’s available in and how to use NYC Open Data.
- Criminal Court Summonses in New York City, a 2014 guide
- InvestigateNYC, a website that combines some of the resources put out by New York City and explains how to use these resources.