twentieth century – NewYorkScapes

Digital Downtown

Nicholas Wolf — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 12:29:20 +0000

Digital Downtown serves as a complement to the main library website for the Downtown Collection, the largest archival collecting endeavor at Fales Library & Special Collections, NYU’s main repository for archival materials in the arts and humanities. With a focus on the late twentieth-century underground arts scenes of SoHo and the Lower East Side, the Downtown Collection holds a wealth of unique…

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Downtown Archæologies

Nicholas Wolf — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:07:48 +0000

A class project for the Spring 2018 “Media History of New York” Media, Culture, and Communication class taught by Moacir P. de Sá Pereira, _Downtown Archæologies_ makes use of the Fales Downtown Collection to try to generate a media archaeology of Downtown New York. Students were to find an artifact at the Downtown Collection or the Centro des Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College and write…

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Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York

Andrew Zuliani — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:37:45 +0000

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

Andrew Zuliani — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:31:48 +0000

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

Andrew Zuliani — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:56:57 +0000

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

Andrew Zuliani — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:01:26 +0000

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

Andrew Zuliani — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 23:56:50 +0000

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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