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Subsidizing Inequality: New York City’s Crooked Development Agenda

Alex Ulam ▪ June 23, 2014

For far too long, New York City development projects have heavily subsidized corporations and big banks at the expense of small businesses and low-wage workers. Will Bill de Blasio do anything to change that?

Our Parks Are Not for Sale: From the Gold Coast of New York to the Venice Biennale

Alex Ulam ▪ Winter 2013

Many municipal parks agencies have become charity cases, overly dependent upon support from conservancies and “Friends” groups in order to fulfill their missions. Some of the most glaring inequities in the United States are becoming manifest in the way our public spaces are designed, maintained, and regulated.

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