Urban Affairs: Policing, Homelessness, Race etc.

Are Cops Ignoring Street Bums? - The New York Post, August 16, 2002

Race and Silence in Central Park - Salon.com, June 23, 2000

The Puerto Rican Day Parade: women are attacked, the police stand by and the media ask the wrong questions.

Why Howard Safir Must Go - Salon.com, March 22, 2000

Rudy Giuliani's police commissioner has offered nothing but knee-jerk support for police officers who have killed three unarmed black men in 13 months. He should resign.

Rudy's Right and Rosie's Wrong - Salon.com - January 4, 2000

New York's feisty mayor -- and the Doe Fund -- may be the best thing to ever happen for the City's Homeless. (For additional information on the same subject see articles by Heather Mac Donald's and Sol Stern on www.city-journal.org)

Toward A More Civil City - City Journal, Winter 1998

When the mayor improved New York’s quality of life, the city benefited hugely. Here are three easy ways to enhance it further.

Belfast Diarist: Fractured, But Whole - City Journal, Spring 1998

I expected Beirut: chaos and rubble. I found instead a quiet city, similar to what working-class London must have been like a half century ago.

Tompkins Square Diarist: After the Uprising - City Journal, Autumn 1997

It has been nearly a decade since the Tompkins Square "uprising," when anarchists, squatters, and junkies fought the police who'd come to evict them from their encampment in the trash-choked park.

 

Bombay On The Hudson - City Journal, Summer 1997

A half-million immigrants from the Indian subcontinent have revitalized New York’s neighborhoods and breathed new life into its economy at every level.