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City Limits Crowns UrbaNerd Trivia Champion
Jarrett Murphy |
It was the greatest UrbaNerd Trivia Challenge in our history. And also the first.
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UrbaNerd: How Much Hazardous Material is in Your Neighborhood?
Jarrett Murphy |
Every year, New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection tallies up how many facilities within its borders handle hazardous waste—which can include everything from used oil to unpronounceable chemicals—and breaks down just where those toxic supplies are.
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Today is the Day to Become a New York City Civil War Buff
Jarrett Murphy |
A century and a half ago this afternoon, the surrender that effectively ended the Civil War took place. For a city that rioted against the draft and had a Southern sympathizer as mayor, New York has done a lot since ’65 to remember the conflict and its toll.
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UrbaNerd: The Bomb in the Big City
Jarrett Murphy |
The U.S.-Iran talks have people once again talking about The Bomb. For those of us who grew up at the end of the Cold War it’s instructive to read how New York assessed its risk when the fear of nuclear annihilation was pretty intense.
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UrbaNERD: What You Missed While Kanye Was Talking
Jasmine Pierce |
What are the voices in your head telling you? Hopefully it’s to take a look at these articles on school discipline, millennials at home, tax reform, fashion week and the bard of the Harlem Renaissance.
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UrbaNERD: Neighborhood Ranking Reflects Degrees of Inequality
Jarrett Murphy |
What Canarsie means for the rest of us, what the NYPD’s early history tells us about policing today and the grim, unheralded work of the nation’s accident investigators.
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UrbaNERD: Plowing Through Snow Policy After the Great White Nope
Jarrett Murphy |
Predicting the next snow response, watching “the wave” hit East New York, linking homeless kids to child care and more in this week’s rundown of must-reads for urban enthusiasts.
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UrbaNERD: Time to Think About Our ‘Ferguson Moment’
Jasmine Pierce |
Research and reporting on the complex mix of race and geography, the minimum wage, youthful offenders and the ever-present threat of … out-of-state cars?
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UrbaNERD: A very brief history of the right to offend in NYC
Jarrett Murphy |
This week’s UrbaNERD looks at episodes in New York’s past where freedom of expression meant the freedom to offend. Also, new stuff on housing, wages and debt.
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UrbaNERD: De Blasio v. Lynch, Place v. People, Rudolph v. Fog
Jarrett Murphy |
The disagreement between Bill de Blasio and Pat Lynch might look like an argument between a politician and a cop. But really it’s an argument between a politician … and a politician. Background on that fight, the debate over concentrated poverty and more.
