On this page you will find a listing of events with topics relevant to our course. Extra credit can be earned by attending and writing, then posting, a 3–page review blog.
MARCH 16
Imagining the Socialist City: Radical Visions for Housing Policy in New York
Where: Medgar Evers College, Edison O. Jackson Auditorium, 1638 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225
When: 7:00-9:00 p.m. (Talk is free and open to the public)
Speakers:
- Rob Robinson (Take Back the Land)
- Stephanie Rudolph (Urban Justice Center)
- Sam Stein and Joshua Freeman (CUNY)
- Debbie Medina (Los Sures)
Everyone knows there is an affordable housing crisis in New York. But there’s a lot of confusion over what should be done about it. With Mayor de Blasio proposing an “affordable” housing plan that only the real estate industry could love, our city needs an alternative, socialist vision for housing the people. Brooklyn Socialist Club and the Crown Heights Tenant Union are bringing together experts and organizers to talk about different aspects of that vision: co-ops and land trusts, union-sponsored housing developments, NYCHA/public housing, and rent regulation.
MARCH 16
The Next 100 Years of Affordable Housing
What: Matthew Gordon Lasner and Nicholas Dagen Bloom, the co-authors of Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies that Transformed a City (2015; Princeton University Press) host a free, public panel discussion on the future of a livable New York City for the other 99%.
Where: Cooper Union, The Great Hall in The Foundation Building
7 East 7th Street, btwn Third and Fourth Aves., NN, NY 10003
When: Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 6:30pm–8pm
Panelists include:
- Shola Olatoye, Chair and CEO of the New York City Housing Authority
- Alexander Gorlin, FAIA, architect of Nehemiah Spring Creek, the Brook, and other innovative affordable housing complexes
- Gwendolyn Wright, professor architecture, history, and art history, Columbia University
- Joseph Heathcott, associate professor of urban studies, The New School
- Carol Lamberg, former executive director, Settlement Housing Fund
Matthew Gordon Lasner, assistant professor of urban studies and planning at Hunter College, is also the author of High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century. Nicholas Dagen Bloom is associate professor of social science and director of the Urban Administration program at New York Institute of Technology. His books include Public Housing that Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century.
MARCH 4
Film screening: All Day All Week: An Occupy Wall Street Story
In 2011 there were occupations of public spaces happening all across the globe. It was a moment of upheaval when anything seemed possible. In this context, on September 17th, 2011, a two-month encampment of Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Plaza, began in the financial district of New York City. This non-fiction feature film, directed by Marisa Holmes, tells the story of Occupy Wall Street from the perspective of those who lived it. Filmed by and in conversation with participants, the film offers a glimpse inside the daily life of occupation as well as reflections on the experience.
Where: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave., Segal Theater
When: 6:00-9:00 p.m.
http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/events/film-screening-all-day-all-week-an-occupy-wall-street-story/?
Lecture (free and open to the public): Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn’s Sunset Park
Who: Prof. Tarry Hum, Queens College Urban Studies Department
Where: Asian American/Asian Research Institute, 25 W. 43rd St (between 5th and 6th Aves); 10th fl, room 1000
When: Friday March 4, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Based on more than a decade of research, Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood charts the evolution of Sunset Park from the late 1960s to its current status as one of New York City’s most vibrant neighborhoods. Author and professor Tarry Hum will discuss how processes of globalization – such as shifts in low-wage labor markets and immigration patterns – shaped the neighborhood.
FEB. 11- MAY 15
Exhibit: Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City
Where: Hunter College’s East Harlem Gallery
When: Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00-5:00 p.m.
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/eastharlem-artgallery
FEB. 24
Panel Discussion: The Politics of Public Housing
The high cost of housing is one of the greatest challenges facing New York and other large U.S. cities today. To coincide with publication of their collection, Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City, co-editors Nicholas D. Bloom and Matthew G. Lasner bring together a panel of leaders to discuss New York’s rich legacy of affordable housing and what lessons from the past can be applied today in New York and nationally.
Where: Hunter College Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, 47-49 East 65th Street
When: 6:00-9:00 p.m.
http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/events/politics-affordable-housing/
FEB. 10
Exhibition opening: Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City
This exhibit explores a century of life in affordable housing in New York City with a view to generating bold and creative solutions for tomorrow. Featured are original photographs by David Schalliol, custom built models of apartments from various eras, a timeline of original and archival material, and photographs by public housing tenants produced through the Project Lives program, which offered NYCHA residents free photo classes and cameras.
Where: Hunter College’s East Harlem Gallery
When: 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
