Tag: New York City

  • Nation & World

    The rats are gonna hate this one too …

    Alum explains why being NYC sanitation commissioner is a dream job — if you care about delivering essential services.

    8 minutes
    Photo illustration of rat climbing Empire State building surrounded by piles of trash.
  • Nation & World

    As the nation shifted from ‘Negro’ to black

    Kent Garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth’s “Last Negroes at Harvard” chronicles the lives of the groundbreaking 18 black members of the Class of 1963.

    17 minutes
    Black and white students as minutemen in 1960.
  • Nation & World

    Negative ‘Impact’ on learning

    New research from Assistant Professor in Sociology Joscha Legewie links the aggressive policing of New York City’s Operation Impact with lower test scores for African American boys.

    5 minutes
    Joscha Legewie.
  • Nation & World

    Less crime, and fewer incarcerations

    As New York became a safer city, incarcerations dropped too, new study says.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Bloomberg named Commencement speaker

    Michael R. Bloomberg, M.B.A. ’66, an entrepreneur who built an information technology company into a global news and financial information service and served three terms as mayor of New York City, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of Harvard’s 363rd Commencement.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Potential en masse

    Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times talks about the importance of public space, his role as a critic, and the art and beauty of architecture. Kimmelman spoke at the Radcliffe Institute on Feb. 6.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Reshaping Manhattan’s Midtown

    Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni working in New York City outline a plan to revamp a 70-block area around Grand Central Station, where zoning restrictions have long restricted the height of buildings, to allow for structures twice as tall.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Film Forum to host Gardner retrospective

    The Film Forum in New York City will host a one-week retrospective of documentarian and ethnographer Robert Gardner’s influential films from Nov. 11 to Nov. 17.

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  • Nation & World

    Cities on a hill

    Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, who was raised in New York City, is an advocate of the metropolis, and upends the myths that cities are unhealthy, poor, and environmentally unfriendly in his book “Triumph of the City.”

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The danger of us against them

    Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York and former congressman Joe Scarborough, now the host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” identified big problems with the U.S. political system and traded ideas on how to address them during a discussion at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Mayor Bloomberg receives HSPH’s Richmond Award

    Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City has been named the 2007 recipient of the Julius B. Richmond Award, the highest honor given by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    New York City mayor to receive award, deliver remarks at KSG

    Michael R. Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, will receive the Pathfinder Award Friday (March 2) from the Leadership for a Networked World (LNW) Program at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Bloomberg will also deliver remarks before an audience of invited guests at the School’s Wiener Auditorium beginning at 4 p.m. and will be…

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