Many local policymakers make decisions based on a deep-seated belief: what’s good for the rich is good for cities. Convinced that local finances depend on attracting wealthy firms and residents, municipal governments lavish public subsidies on their behalf.
Whatever form this strategy takes — tax-exempt apartments, corporate incentives, debt-financed mega projects — its rationale remains consistent and assumed to be true. But this wasn’t always the case. [Read more…] about The Menace of Prosperity: NYC’s Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981
In the 1990s, psychiatrist Mindy Thompson Fullilove came to realize that the “
Newburgh is the first expansion for Urban Archive outside of New York City. Urban Archive, a technology non-profit, had their start in 2016 working with three institutional partners and only a few hundred archival photographs. 
I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood close to downtown Rochester, New York in the 1950s. People displaced during the Second World War, along with migrants from the American South and Puerto Rico, were the newest arrivals to my part of the city (settled by Europeans in the last decades of the 19th century).
