Advice for the New Mayor
Stern, William
Cove, Peter
Kotkin, Joel
Savas, E. S.
Biederman, Daniel
McCaughey, Elizabeth
Heinemann, H. Erich
Brooke-Hitching, Harley
Moss, Mitchell
Nathan, Richard
Zuckerman, Mortimer
Cornuelle, Richard
Mahoney, Margaret
Berger, Stephen
Wriston, Walter B.
Morris, Charles
Crouch, Stanley
2007
Richard Nathan Director, Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government
We tend to stereotype New York's poorer neighborhoods as war zones of crime and crack. But the truth is much more complicated. New York has many new "Zones of Emergence"-middle- and working-class communities inhabited by blacks, Hispanics, and immigrants. From Flushing, Queens, to Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and even Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick, many New York City neighborhoods are not the stereotypical inner-city danger zones. | |
These neighborhoods are fragile, but they are holding out. Shine a spotlight on these areas and see how we can help them. | |