public history – 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. Sat, 15 Dec 2018 03:56:06 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 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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]]> Edward DeGrant, Pauline Levine, Redlining, and Two New York Museums https://newyorkscapes.org/project/edward-degrant-pauline-levine-redlining-and-two-new-york-museums/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:56:29 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/project/edward-degrant-pauline-levine-redlining-and-two-new-york-museums/ What happened to the residents of these houses-turned-museums after they moved out? Pauline Levine once lived at 97 Orchard Street, now the highly regarded Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Edward DeGrant was born around the same time in the African-American community of Weeksville. He lived at 5 Hunterfly Road, now the Weeksville Heritage Center. As a result of race-based-mortgage-lending…

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