The New Face of Gentrification
Kavita Shah : Housing & Homelessness
Manhattan's El Barrio is facing an uphill battle against a private equity firm attempting to displace low-income residents in a struggle which reflects a growing crisis.
2007
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Insecurity Cameras
William Pentland : Privacy Rights
The more sophisticated security technology becomes in our nation's cities, the more reason privacy activists have to be alarmed.
2006
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The Man Who Loved Children
Suzy Hansen : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
Adam Gopnik's Through the Children's Gate details the trials of a very smug and special class of parents raising children in post-9/11 New York.
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Cashing In on Catastrophe
Wayne Barrett & Dan Collins : Rudolph Giuliani
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is now using his public image, burnished by 9/11, to conceal crooked business deals and reap handsome profits from a national tragedy.
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A Light in Brooklyn
Moustafa Bayoumi : Anti-Racism Activism
In Brooklyn, a beleaguered Arab-American community copes with bigotry and heightened government scrutiny post-9/11.
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Arab America's September 11
Moustafa Bayoumi : Civil Rights After 9/11
Arab Americans are experiencing something similar to McCarthy-era redbaiting, but the cold war performed better on racial justice than Bush's "war on terror."
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Ground Zero for Immigration
Ali Winston : Immigration to the US
A recent rally at the World Trade Center site displayed anti-immigration activists' latest tactics: distorting the truth and exploiting national security concerns.
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On the Corner
David Margolick : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
Times Square may be the most dynamic urban space of the twentieth century, but you wouldn't know it from reading Marshall Berman's On the Town.
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La Vie de Bohème
Drawing from the New York counterculture in which he immersed himself, Ted Berrigan's sonnets and other poems sing beautifully about being broken and graceful and tough.
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Dr. Fun
Kenneth Koch was one of the merrier in the bunch known as the New York School of poets. But he was more than just a poet of humor. He sought the essential nature of human existence, and displayed his infectious awe of the universe in enchanting verse.
2005
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2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Anne Winters's The Displaced of Capital, winner of the 2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, is a reflective, documentary and visionary volume of poetry inspired by the city of New York.
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Brooklyn Prof in Godless Shocker
People who believe in academic freedom should denounce CUNY's treatment of an atheist professor.
2004
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The Fine Art of Bush-Bashing
Liza Featherstone : Republican Party
While New York City authorities and anti-GOP organizers square off over the right to rally, cultural activists are taking matters into their own hands.
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Bush To City: Drop Dead
Jack Newfield : Economic Policy
The President vows to exploit New York City, not aid it.
2003
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New York State of Mind
Colson Whitehead's new perversely daring book is smooth, dazzling, evocative, but also narrow and monochromatic.
2002
2001
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Requiem for a Liberal
The New York mayor's race was weird and depressing in virtually every imaginable way.
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Working-Class Heroes
It ought not to require mass death to remind us who keeps NYC functioning day after day after day.
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Never Shut Up, New York
NYC's historic refusal to shut up is one of the national treasures that some newly minted sunshine patriots wish to bulldoze under the rubble of Lower Manhattan.
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Operation Enduring Protest
Liza Featherstone : War & Peace
On October 13, speakers at an antiwar rally in NYC did their best to avoid the thorny question of how to fight terrorism without bombs.
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