Tag: New York City
How a flu virus shut down the US economy in 1872...
Ernest Freeberg, University of Tennessee
In 1872 the U.S. economy was growing as the young nation industrialized and expanded westward. Then in the autumn, a...
Homeless patients with COVID-19 often go back to life on the...
J. Robin Moon, City University of New York
In 2019, about 567,715 homeless people were living in the United States. While this number had been...
Street vendors make cities livelier, safer and fairer – here’s why...
John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Cities around the world are emerging from pandemic shutdowns and gradually allowing activities to resume. National leaders...
Why are so many people lighting off fireworks?
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
The number of fireworks being lit off at night is out of control this year.
While people often light off fireworks...
‘Uncut Gems’ celebrates Manhattan’s Diamond District, a neighborhood that’s a window...
Barak Richman, Duke University
In “Uncut Gems,” an overleveraged diamond jeweler named Howard Ratner, played by Adam Sandler, frantically tries to cover his bad business...
‘Joker’ fans flocking to a Bronx stairway highlights tension of media...
Laura M. Holzman, IUPUI
New York’s newest tourist attraction isn’t a museum, park or art installation.
It’s a stairway.
Sandwiched between apartment buildings in the Bronx, it’s...
New York’s new rental protections won’t end the outsize influence of...
Cem S. Kayatekin, IE University
New York has passed sweeping new laws that will close some legal loopholes that allowed the city’s 1 million rent-stabilized...
New York gets serious about traffic with the first citywide US...
John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
After years of debate, New York state has adopted congestion pricing to deal with traffic problems in...
EXPLORING NATURE
Despite Supreme Court setback, children’s lawsuits against climate change continue
Alexandra Klass, University of Michigan
An ancient legal principle has become a key strategy of American children seeking to...
