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Ideas
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Julia
Vitullo-Martin
Director
Julia
Vitullo-Martin is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and
Director of the Center for Rethinking Development. Her work focuses
on development issues such as planning and zoning, housing, rent
regulation, environmental reviews, building and fire codes, and
landmark preservation.
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Hope
Cohen
Deputy
Director
Hope
Cohen is Deputy Director of the Center for Rethinking Development.
With over a decade of experience in New York City government at
the Department of Parks and Recreation and MTA New York City Transit,
she brings invaluable experience navigating the complex city bureaucracy
and an acute ability to solve complex problems by building consensus
among multiple stake-holders.
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| Debating
Development in New York: Selected Articles and Comments |
| Is Overdevelopment Still a Threat?, New York Times, 10-22-08 |
| Vanishing Projects, Gotham Gazette, 10-15-08 |
| Maybe Beloved Shops Don't Have to Disappear, City Limits, 07-21-08 |
| Hold 'em Accountable: Developer Filing Proposed, City Limits, 07-14-08 |
| Thompson says other developers might join AY; "I'm not sure what that project is any longer", Atlantic Yards Report, 05-02-08
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| 125th Street Rezoning Raises Concerns About Preserving Harlem's Affordability, Columbia Spectator, 04-24-08
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| Harlem reborn, The Economist, 03-13-08
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| Battle for soul of Harlem's famed 125th Street, Guardian, 03-11-08
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| World Service, BBC Radio, 01-30-08
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Once Synagogues, Now Churches, and Ailing Quietly New York Times,
01-28-08 |
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Columbia's $6 Billion Expansion Likely to Win Approval From NYC Bloomberg.com,
11-26-07 |
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When the Gown Devours the Town New York Times,
11-16-07 |
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Forest City Enterprises: Deals and Ideals Governing Magazine,
November 2007 |
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Time for Some Jane Jacobs Revisionism? New York Times,
11-06-07 |
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Not so Superblock Built Environment Blog, 10-19-07 |
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Atlantic Yards Report: Vitullo-Martin Takes a Second Look at Jane
Jacobs New York Times, 10-15-07 |
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Study Finds Disparities in Mortgages by Race New York Times,
10-15-07 |
| Razing West Harlem, Daily Standard, 08-09-07 |
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The Politics of Public Housing The Brian Lehrer Show, 08-09-07 |
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Hard Times in the Projects Gotham Gazette, 08-20-07 |
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Environmental Reviews for Small Developments The New york Times,
08-19-07 |
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The Future of New York's Past New York Times, 05-15-07 |
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Brooklyn gets affordable housing boost AM New York, 04-25-07 |
The First Reductions of Street Homelessness in 20 Years Wall
Street Journal, 02-15-07
*subscription required |
| Blight
off the Block? New York Post, 12-04-06 |
Up
in arms about the Yards Economist, 09-21-06
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New
York's Post-9/11 Liberty Bond Program Gets Mixed Grades Bloomberg
News, 09-11-06
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First
Tribute Wall Street Journal, 09-11-06
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In
Big Slow Brooklyn Build, Is It Affordable Housing Last? New
York Observer, 09-11-06 by Matt Schuerman
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Blight
on the Block: Helter Shelter New York Post, 09-05-06
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Congregations
turn creative as they learn how to leverage holdings New York
Business, 07-31-06
*subscription required |
| Feds
could hobble affordable housing New York Business, 02-20-06 Editorial |
| New
York's Home Front New York Sun, 11-11-05 Editorial |
| Beyond
Brooklyn: Ratner’s Stadium The Columbia Spectator, 10-13-05 by Erin Durkin |
| In
a Still-Growing City, Some Neighborhoods Say Slow Down New
York Times, 10-10-05 by Janny Scott |
| Not
Your Typical Landmark New York Post, 10-05-05 Letter
to the editor by Peg Breen, President New York Landmarks Conservancy |
| The
Eminent Domain Fight-Back New York Sun, 10-05-05
Editorial |
| How
Dense Can You Get? Governing Magazine, August 2005 |
| Time
May Drive Suburban Flight Newsday, 08-21-05 |
| Environmental
Groups and the Economy Friends of Hudson, 08-10-05 Letter
to editor by Susan Falzon, New York Times |
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CRD
REPORT
Raise
the Roof, Lower the Costs: Construction Costs and Housing
Affordability in New York City
by Rosemary Scanlon
CRD NEWSLETTER
Albany and City Hall: Here's What You Can Do to Slow Down Construction Costs
by Hope Cohen, July 2008
PODCAST
Hope Cohen of the Center for Rethinking Development interviews
Rosemary Scanlon [Part
I] [Part
II]
CRD
DISCUSSION
The report was released on July 9 at a panel featuring Rosemary
Scanlon, architect Mark Ginsberg, financier and developer
Michael Lappin and construction attorney Barry LePatner. Please
click here
to listen to the panel.
RADIO
A discussion of "Raise the Roof, Lower the Costs" on WNYC news.
TESTIMONY
Testimony re: Changes to City Capital Contracting Rules Testimony of Hope Cohen to City Council Contracts Committee, 09-19-08
OP-EDS
Cutting the High Cost of Housing Rosemary Scanlon and Hope Cohen, Gotham Gazette, 09-16-08
Bulldozing Through New York Rosemary Scanlon and Hope Cohen, The New York Sun, 08-07-08
IN
THE PRESS
New School Year Brings New Seats for 11,000 Students, New York Sun, 08-28-08
What to Do About Those Rising Construction Costs, The New York Observer, 07-30-08
Report
Urges Nonunion Labor Use Peter Kiefer, The New York
Sun, 07-10-08
Construction Costs Put Crimp on Affordable Housing Crain's New York
Business, 07-09-08
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Houses of Worship: A Congregation Fights for the Right to Raze Its Ugly Church, Wall Street Journal, 11-21-08
NYC's Housing Hope, New York Post, 11-19-08
Brooklyn's Retail Boom, Gotham Gazette, 10-14-08
New York For Sale, New York Post, 10-12-08
Strong housing stock, picturesque waterfront help Hudson Valley's Newburgh, New York Daily News, 10-10-08
A Change For A Cleaner Queens, New York Post, 09-24-08
Behind The Latest Harlem Renaissance, New York Post, 09-07-08
NYC Public Housing in Crisis, New York Daily News, 08-20-08
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On Thursday,
November 1, 2007, the Manhattan Institute's Center for Rethinking
Development hosted Mayor Michael Bloomberg as the keynote
speaker of a conference entitled "Thinking Big for New York
City." Julia Vitullo-Martin moderated the panel of Amanda Burden,
Chair of the City Planning Commission, Kenneth Jackson, Columbia
University Professor of History, and Felix Rohatyn, Senior Advisor
to Lehman Brothers.
Click
here to watch video of the Mayor's address, or to read his
prepared remarks. Click here for event audio [PART I] [PART II].
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Hope Cohen Participates in Discussion of Bloomberg's State of the City speech, 01-21-08
CRD NEWSLETTER:
Thinking Big for New York City, October-November 2007
PODCAST:
Hope Cohen discusses the future of Coney Island, a theme from the October-November CRD newsletter.
OP-ED:
A
Tale of Two Cities, New York Post, 11-04-07
IN
THE PRESS:
Astroland Saved!, New York Magazine, 11-01-07
West
Side Residents vs. Bloomberg over Rezoning Plan, New
York Daily News, 11-05-07
The
Revolutionary, Newsweek, 11-03-07
New York defiant
as boomtime melts away, Financial Times, 11-03-07
How
Is Bloomberg Like Pope John XXIII?, The New York Times
City Room Blog, 11-01-07
Coming
to a Neighborhood Near You, Gotham Gazette Wonkster Blog,
11-01-07
At
Manhattan Institute, Bloomberg Praises Big Ideas, Denounces
Autocratic Urban Planning, New York Observer Politicker
Blog, 11-01-07
Click here for a comparable event on upstate issues, 'Can Upstate Cities Save Themselves?'
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| FEATURED
TOPIC: ENVIRONMENT
& INFRASTRUCTURE |
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SELECT MEDIA:
One to One, CUNY TV, 01-21-08
TESTIMONY:
Testimony re: Safety of New York City's Bridges
Testimony of Hope Cohen, September 17, 2007
CRD
REPORT:
Rethinking
Environmental Review: A Handbook on What Can Be
Done
By Hope Cohen, with a
foreword by Richard Ravitch
New York City's environmental review process was
instituted so that public officials would understand
the full environmental implications of a development
project and could plan for any necessary changes
to municipal infrastructure and services. Over
time, the process has evolved to become a hindrance
to all developers, especially small-scale ones.
The Center for Rethinking Development offers simple
and effective suggestions for reform in a new
report, "Rethinking Environmental Review."
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Was AKRF's Work for Ratner a Hindrance to Hiring by ESDC? No, It Was a Justification Atlantic Yards Report, 08-15-08
Fix
the Drains (and Trains and Bridges)—and Train the
Fixers Hope Cohen, Center for Rethinking Development
newsletter, August 2007
Podcast:
Hope Cohen elaborates on the themes of the August
newsletter
Building
Blocks by Richard Ravitch and Hope Cohen, The
New York Times, 08-05-07
Ensuring
It Doesn't Happen Here by Hope Cohen, New
York Post, 08-03-07
A
Start on Trading Cumbersome (City) Environmental
Review for the Civic Work of Planning Atlantic
Yards Report, 05-18-07
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The
Center
for Rethinking Development
(CRD) fosters a new understanding of the importance of development
to New York City's well-being. Focusing on such areas as zoning
and planning, environmental review, building codes, historic preservation,
and public housing, CRD conducts research, hosts forums, and offers
concrete, feasible proposals for reform.
The
city has adopted many of CRD's specific recommendations for zoning
changes. CRD's work on bottlenecks to building continues to frame
policy discussions in the development world—public, private,
and not-for-profit.
New
Yorkers have become far more development-friendly in the past few
years, but are rightly troubled about New York's decaying infrastructure—roads,
subways, bridges, tunnels—so necessary to support an expanding
city. The costs of housing—rehabilitation as well as new construction—worry
everyone concerned about keeping and attracting jobs and business.
CRD explains and makes a case for the importance of reconnecting
environmental reviews to infrastructural planning and implementation,
targeting incentives to neighborhoods that are still weak rather
than those that are strong, and tempering historic preservation
with economic reason. Addressing these common-sense concerns is
key to the city's future.
For
more information please contact Hope
Cohen
(hcohen@manhattan-institute.org), (212) 599-7000, fax (212) 599-3494.
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