Each year, City & State’s New York City Power 100 aims to capture the ever-evolving power structure in the nation’s largest city, but it’s never been more difficult to arrive at an accurate assessment of the pecking order. Will Adams still be in office next year, even if...
Fort Harmer, Ohio –The first frontier fort built in Ohio Country, its objective was to prevent pioneer squatters from settling on Indian lands northwest of the Ohio River and to evict settlers already living there because they lacked government-issued land titles. Miami, Florida – Coastal Playgr...
Sen. Pennacchio criticized the Murphy administration for mirroring New York's policy decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic as former Gov. Cuomo faced scrutiny from Congress over his administration's failures. Read on... Steinhardt Urges Congress to Pass Reimbursement Bill for State & Local Govern...
A CHIP ON HIS SHOULDER?…Controversy followedHuey Longwherever he went. At left is aNew York Timesaccount of Long’s alleged black eye incident on Long Island. He would be assassinated two years later at the Louisiana State Capitol; Long circa 1933. (NYT/Wikipedia) * * * More From Our A...
NEW York (N.Y.)NEW York (State)MUNICIPAL governmentSQUATTERSSOCIAL movementsHOUSINGURBAN growthPOLITICAL scienceSOLIDARITYDespite its universalist title, Miguel Mart铆nez's book does so by focusing specifically on activist squatters in post-1990s European cities. The combination of st...
Dangers and hostilities threaten from every side, and it is really a matter of astonishment how so small a State has been able in so short a time to entangle itself in so many difficulties. Ever since the province was first taken by the nose, at the Fort of Good Hope, in the tranquil...
parts of the tunnel were inhabited by as many as several hundred squatters, giving rise to an elaborate myth, formalized in print, about a special culture of mole people colonizing the new york underground and living by a unique code of honor. when i mentioned it to duncan, he said, “pl...
Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City, by Starecheski, Amy. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780226399942; 318 pp. $90 hardcover. The Urban Politics of Squatters' Movements (The Contemporary City), by Mar...
This chapter has at its core one central argument; that British Christianity can only be fully understood through a global lens, especially in the period under consideration here. The compression and growing interconnectedness of the world through global
Being thus completely settled, and, to use his own words, "to rights," one would imagine that he would begin to enjoy the comforts of his situation, to read newspapers, talk politics, neglect his own business, and attend to the affairs of the nation like a useful and patriotic citizen;...