Report - May 2001
The Workforce Challenge: To Place is to WinAfter eight months of research, the Center for an Urban Future has completed the first comprehensive report on New York Citys new and controversial welfare to work job-training system.
Testimony - April 2001
Long Island City RezoningTestimony of Jonathan Bowles, Research Director, Center for an Urban Future, Before City Planning Commission: Long Island City Rezoning
Commentary/Op-Ed - February 2001
The City’s Tax Break Policy is a WasteOp-Ed from Center for an Urban Future Research Director Jonathan Bowles. Reprinted from Newsday, 2/21/2001.
Report - February 2001
Payoffs for LayoffsIn recent years, New York City has attempted to retain major corporations through tax breaks and other sweetheart measures. But without any accountability measures, many of the businesses to benefit have cut jobs or relocated anyway.
Commentary/Op-Ed - January 2001
Right Idea, Wrong Time: The Center Calls for Changes in the Governor’s Biotechnology PlanNew York City, not upstate, should be the centerpiece of the state's biotechnology plan.
Commentary/Op-Ed - November 2000
Manufacturers Lose Another Battle: City Set to Allow Another Viable Factory Building to Be ConvertedOne of the biggest and best buildings on the Williamsburg waterfront will soon be converted from manufacturing space into 184 Soho-priced studio apartments--even though local residents have pushed to keep factories in the neighborhood.