The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: Research reveals long-term financial fallout
…Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody. Amid a national swirl of racial reckoning — and the coronavirus pandemic — the rally is a go in a city still grappling with…
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COVID-19 school closings and child abuse reports: Research exposes dangerous link
…went unreported in New York City in March, April and May of 2020. They also used data collected from the city’s Administration for Children’s Services to generate a national estimate,…
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Death and taxes: Research links neighborhood race, tax delinquency and life expectancy
…links this disparity to property tax delinquency. The study shows that in the city’s poor, predominantly Black neighborhoods, where life expectancy is lower, property tax delinquency is higher compared with…
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Story ideas from the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book: March 2022
…York City. But subway ridership ticked up in January and February, compared with December. City and statewide loosening of COVID-19 restrictions happened around the same time the Federal Reserve stopped…
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Postindustrial cities and explanations of order‑maintenance policing
…white neighborhoods. A 2013 study in Urban Affairs Review, “The Postindustrial City Thesis and Rival Explanations of Heightened Order Maintenance Policing,” examines the relationship between an area’s economy and its…
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Bike lanes benefit non-riders more than riders: New research
…a city. An academic study worth reading: “The Cost-Effectiveness of Bike Lanes in New York City,” by Jing Gu and her colleagues at Columbia University, published in BMJ Injury Prevention,…
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Puerto Ricans in the United States: Research roundup
…perspective to identify the broad range of resources the Puerto Rican community has developed over six decades of community activism, in the largest Puerto Rican city and Latino city that…
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Health benefits of urban vegetation and green space: Research roundup
…has returned to U.S. city centers, and many municipalities have shown a renewed interest in incorporating green space and vegetation into the urban environment. In 2011 New York City opened…
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Data journalism lesson with crime stats: Parsing close-call numbers
…then sorted just the cities over 1 million in population on their violent-crime rates. “New York: Big city, but violent crimes close to U.S. average.” The city’s rate is 2.929,…
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Economic impact studies: Should journalists rely on them?
…seeing a boom in the development of convention centers. In city after city, massive public investment in convention facilities has been justified by feasibility and market studies that consistently portray…
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