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Changing New York

Transforming Food Policy: Can New York City Become a Model for Smart, Fair Municipal Food Policy for the Nation?

Posted on February 18th, 2014 · Posted in Changing New York, Public Programs
On March 3rd The New York City Food Policy Center and The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute join forces to sponsor Transforming Food Policy: Can New York City Become a Model for Smart, Fair Municipal Food Policy for the Nation? At t... Read more

John Lindsay, New York, and the American Dream

Posted on January 29th, 2014 · Posted in Changing New York, Public Programs, Publication News
This event was held at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College – 68th Street and Lexington, NYC A special program to coincide with the publication of Summer in the City: John Lindsa... Read more

New York: A City for Tech Innovation?

Posted on January 24th, 2014 · Posted in Changing New York, Public Programs
The explosive growth of New York's tech industry in the last decade has reshaped the city's economy and its demographics -- and has kept New York at the forefront in a rapidly changing digital landscape. Over the last decade, Bloomberg administration... Read more

Getting Around: NYC Transportation Today and Tomorrow

Posted on January 14th, 2014 · Posted in Changing New York, Public Programs
The  “Changing New York” series, which explores the most pressing policy issues facing the new de Blasio administration continued at Roosevelt House. We kicked off the series in 2014 with a conversation on how to keep the city moving s... Read more

David Dinkins: “A Mayor’s Life: Governing New York’s Gorgeous Mosaic”

Posted on September 27th, 2013 · Posted in Book Discussions, Changing New York, Public Programs
"Who would believe New York would elect a black mayor?” writes David N. Dinkins in his new memoir, reflecting on first considering running in 1988. Only twenty years before we elected an African American president, a black mayor of... Read more

Bruce Katz: “The Metropolitan Revolution”

Posted on August 28th, 2013 · Posted in Book Discussions, Brookings Institution, Changing New York, Public Programs
The Metropolitan Revolution, written by the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program founder Bruce Katz and fellow and senior advisor Jennifer Bradley, looks at real world examples of how our major cities and metropolitan areas, a... Read more

Dr. Judith Rodin in conversation with Jonathan Fanton: Building Greater Resilience for People, Communities and Institutions in NYC and Beyond

Posted on August 7th, 2013 · Posted in Changing New York, Public Programs
Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, spoke to FDR Fellow and Roosevelt House Interim Director Jonathan Fanton, on philanthropy's role in improving the strength and resilience of New York’s infrastructure.Part of the “Changin... Read more

“One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century,” a Book Discussion with Sociologist Nancy Foner

Posted on August 7th, 2013 · Posted in Book Discussions, Changing New York, Faculty Public Programs, Public Programs
A program celebrating the publication of Hunter sociology professor Nancy Foner’s collection, “One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century,” on New York’s past, present and future as an immigrant city, with panelists Fone... Read more

Poverty, Politics and the Transformation of Williamsburg and Greenpoint, 1975 to Today

Posted on August 6th, 2013 · Posted in Book Discussions, Changing New York, Faculty Public Programs, Public Programs
Gentrification and minority displacement are changing neighborhoods across the city. Ida Susser, professor of anthropology at Hunter and the author of ... Read more

Mason B. Williams, “City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York”

Posted on August 6th, 2013 · Posted in Book Discussions, Changing New York, Public Programs
A conversation on the unlikely collaboration of the Democratic president and the Republican mayor that helped to revitalize New York during the Depression.  Featured author Mason B. Williams in conversation with Ira Katznelson, Rug... Read more