city institutions – NewYorkScapes https://newyorkscapes.org NewYorkScapes is a research community dedicated to exploring the literary, historical, and social aspects of the city of New York using digital forms of scholarship. Thu, 17 Jan 2019 02:37:06 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100012/ Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:37:45 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=dataset&p=628 This dataset pertains to individuals between the ages of 18 and 32, from immigrant families, and residing in New York city and a selection of surrounding areas. It examines the success or complication of assimilation of immigrants and children from families that immigrated from a number of countries including the former Soviet Union, Taiwan, Ecuador, Peru, and the West Indies.

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Racial Attitudes in Fifteen American Cities, 1968 https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100011/ Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:31:48 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=dataset&p=639 To summarize: This study explores attitudes and perceptions related to urban problems and race relations in 15 northern cities of the United States (Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Gary, Milwaukee, Newark, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Washington, DC). More specifically, it seeks to define the social and psychological…

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National Crime Surveys: Cities, 1972-1975 https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100010/ Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:56:57 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=dataset&p=601 This sample of the National Crime Survey contains information about victimization in 26 central cities in the United States. The data are designed to achieve three primary objectives: 1) to develop detailed information about the victims and consequences of crime, 2) to estimate the numbers and types of crimes not reported to police, and 3) to provide uniform measures of selected types of crimes…

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Deterrent Effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law, 1974-1984 https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100009/ Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:01:26 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=dataset&p=593 This data collates monthly counts of arrests of juveniles for violent crime as reported by by police jurisdictions. Data are presented in counts broken down by type of crime; jurisdictions are grouped into regions. The original study was longitudinal and designed to assess the effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law (1978) on incidences of violent crime by juveniles.

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Department of Health Certificate of Need Applications: Beginning 1974 https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100007/ Thu, 26 Oct 2017 23:56:50 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=dataset&p=589 This dataset contains listing of health care and long-term care facilities, with coverage for New York City and New York state. It is presented with minimal documentation but the structured data is informative in terms of attributes. As the original data record states, the data was extracted from Certificate of Need (CON) applications, Limited Review Applications (LRAs) and Notices submitted by…

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Bodies in Transit https://newyorkscapes.org/project/bodies-in-transit/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:54:29 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/project/bodies-in-transit/ A transcription and data modeling project centering on the NYC Municipal Archives bodies in transit ledgers, this ongoing work looks at the individuals and officials at the heart of public health in the city in the second half of the nineteenth century. The transcriptions from the first phase of the project, conducted in the fall of 2014, have been made available to the Municipal Archives.

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Digital Almshouse Project https://newyorkscapes.org/project/digital-almshouse-project/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:52:28 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/project/digital-almshouse-project/ The Digital Almshouse Project captures the experiences of Irish-born patients admitted to New York’s Bellevue Almshouse between 1845 and 1852. In addition to tracing Irish-born Bellevue patients’ journeys through New York’s public health system, it also includes background on nineteenth-century immigration to New York City, a history of New York Public Health, descriptions of the population of…

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