Why Is Brooklyn Dying?
The borough has experienced a drop in average per capita income, but there's a good reason for that.
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Ironic Demographics: Brooklyn Is Dying
What can we learn, if anything, from the drop in median household income in New York City's most populous borough?
Ironic Gentrification and the Migration of Globalization
Higher education and health care, two major elements of the new Legacy Economy, are attracting global talent and gentrifying the neighborhoods that surround them, pricing out residents who toil in the local or regional labor market.
Revisiting Austin Street: The Death of Kitty Genovese, 50 Years Later
The public murder of a young woman near her home in Kew Gardens made the bystander effect a household term in 1964. Now, fifty years later, it can be used to illustrate another psychological phenomenon: the surprising fallibility of memory.
Are Prison Education Programs Worth It?
Cost-benefit analyses should consider more than dollars and cents.
The NFL Team That Only Survived Long Enough to Lose 1 Game
A look back at the Tonawanda Kardex of New York shows us just how much America’s most popular sport has changed in the years since the NFL was founded in 1920.
Breaking Down the Broken Windows Theory
As Rudy Giuliani’s old police commissioner William Bratton returns to New York City, new research still fuels a debate over their pet policy.
New York City’s Perpetual Gentrification
Why the loudest anti-gentrification protesters come from the wealthiest areas in the wealthiest countries in the entire world.
Cigarette Smuggling: It Adds Up
The “Tobacco Trail” tempts two-bit crooks and big-time smuggling rings.