Vital City

1 month ago | vitalcitynyc.org | Reuven Blau

9:00AM - 11:00AM This forum, hosted in collaboration with the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY focused on what’s actually happening with crime on the streets and subways, probing would-be mayors’ pragmatic plans to address New Yorkers’ concerns. The panel featured candidates Adrienne Adams, Brad Lander, Jessica Ramos, Scott Stringer, Whitney Tilson and Jim Walden.

2 months ago | vitalcitynyc.org | Rosalie Wells

Does getting a master’s degree make sense for nonprofit professionals? We all have our own reasons for going to grad school. Mine was perhaps one of the worst on the list — I went for a boy. With my then-boyfriend, now husband, pursuing an interminably long PhD in computer science, I joined him in New York City to study at NYU, pursuing both a master’s in media studies and taking elective courses at NYU Wagner’s Master of Public Administration (MPA) program.

Jun 26, 2024 | vitalcitynyc.org | Henry George

The author of ‘The Rise of the Creative Class’ makes the case for family-friendly cities. Richard Florida has been studying and writing about cities for nearly four decades. He is best known for articulating the theory that urban economic development hinges on concentrations of artists, tech workers and other “high bohemian” members of the educated “creative class” — articulated in his best-selling 2002 book, “The Rise of the Creative Class.”That theory had many critics.

Jun 26, 2024 | vitalcitynyc.org | Adem Bunkeddeko |Asad Dandia |Jennifer Egan |Avi Schick

By Adem BunkeddekoI have a bond and love for New York that is sometimes difficult to capture in words. I am the son of refugees who fled Uganda’s civil war during the early 1980s in pursuit of sanctuary and a better life in the city. From the ashes of turmoil, my parents would plant seeds of hope in a rent-stabilized one-bedroom dwelling in Queens, which, notwithstanding being plagued with vermin, symbolized their American dream.

Mar 27, 2024 | vitalcitynyc.org | John King |Jeffrey Butts |Cynthia Lum |Mindy Tarlow

Practitioners and researchers reflect on a study that shaped their worldview. A Thorny Problem With a Seemingly Simple SolutionBy John King I have spent my career — from my time in the classroom to my tenure serving as President Obama’s secretary of education to my current role as chancellor of the State University of New York — fighting for educational equity as a civil right.