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Ideas
that shape the city's planning, housing, and development
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Julia
Vitullo-Martin
Director
Julia
Vitullo-Martin is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and
Director of the Center for Rethinking Development. Her work focuses
on development issues such as planning and zoning, housing, rent
regulation, environmental reviews, building and fire codes, and
landmark preservation.
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Hope
Cohen
Deputy
Director
Hope
Cohen is Deputy Director of the Center for Rethinking Development.
With over a decade of experience in New York City government at
the Department of Parks and Recreation and MTA New York City Transit,
she brings invaluable experience navigating the complex city bureaucracy
and an acute ability to solve complex problems by building consensus
among multiple stake-holders.
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The
Center
for Rethinking Development
(CRD) fosters a new understanding of the importance of development
to New York City's well-being. Focusing on such areas as zoning
and planning, environmental review, building codes, historic preservation,
and public housing, CRD conducts research, hosts forums, and offers
concrete, feasible proposals for reform.
The
city has adopted many of CRD's specific recommendations for zoning
changes. CRD's work on bottlenecks to building continues to frame
policy discussions in the development world—public, private,
and not-for-profit.
New
Yorkers have become far more development-friendly in the past
few years, but are rightly troubled about New York's decaying
infrastructure—roads, subways, bridges, tunnels—so necessary
to support an expanding city. The costs of housing—rehabilitation
as well as new construction—worry everyone concerned about
keeping and attracting jobs and business. CRD explains and makes
a case for the importance of reconnecting environmental reviews
to infrastructural planning and implementation, targeting incentives
to neighborhoods that are still weak rather than those that are
strong, and tempering historic preservation with economic reason.
Addressing these common-sense concerns is key to the city's future.
For
more information please contact Hope
Cohen
(hcohen@manhattan-institute.org), (212) 599-7000, fax (212) 599-3494.
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CRD
REPORT
Raise
the Roof, Lower the Costs: Construction Costs and Housing
Affordability in New York City
by Rosemary Scanlon
CRD
NEWSLETTER
Albany
and City Hall: Here's What You Can Do to Slow Down Construction
Costs
by Hope Cohen, July 2008
PODCAST
Hope
Cohen of the Center for Rethinking Development interviews
economist Rosemary Scanlon [Part
I] [Part
II]
CRD
DISCUSSION
The
report was released on July 9 at a panel featuring Rosemary
Scanlon, architect Mark Ginsberg, financier and developer
Michael Lappin and construction attorney Barry LePatner.
Please click here
to listen to the panel.
RADIO
A discussion
of "Raise the Roof, Lower the Costs" on WNYC
news.
TESTIMONY
Testimony
re: Changes to City Capital Contracting Rules Testimony
of Hope Cohen to City Council Contracts Committee,
09-19-08
OP-EDS
Cutting
the High Cost of Housing Rosemary Scanlon and Hope
Cohen, Gotham Gazette, 09-16-08
Bulldozing
Through New York Rosemary Scanlon and Hope Cohen,
The New York Sun, 08-07-08
IN
THE PRESS
Building
A Better Model For Consrtuction Wages, City Limits,
01-12-09
New
School Year Brings New Seats for 11,000 Students,
New York Sun, 08-28-08
What
to Do About Those Rising Construction Costs, The
New York Observer, 07-30-08
Report
Urges Nonunion Labor Use Peter Kiefer, The New
York Sun, 07-10-08
Construction
Costs Put Crimp on Affordable Housing Crain's
New York Business, 07-09-08
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On Thursday,
November 1, 2007, the Manhattan Institute's Center for Rethinking
Development hosted Mayor Michael Bloomberg as the keynote
speaker of a conference entitled "Thinking Big for New York
City." Julia Vitullo-Martin moderated the panel of Amanda
Burden, Chair of the City Planning Commission, Kenneth Jackson,
Columbia University Professor of History, and Felix Rohatyn,
Senior Advisor to Lehman Brothers.
Click
here to watch video of the Mayor's address, or to read
his prepared remarks. Click here for event audio [PART
I] [PART
II].
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Hope
Cohen Participates in Discussion of Bloomberg's State of the
City speech, 01-21-08
CRD
NEWSLETTER:
Thinking
Big for New York City, October-November 2007
PODCAST:
Hope
Cohen discusses the future of Coney Island, a theme from
the October-November CRD newsletter.
OP-ED:
A
Tale of Two Cities, New York Post, 11-04-07
IN
THE PRESS:
Astroland
Saved!, New York Magazine, 11-01-07
West
Side Residents vs. Bloomberg over Rezoning Plan, New
York Daily News, 11-05-07
The
Revolutionary, Newsweek, 11-03-07
New York defiant
as boomtime melts away, Financial Times, 11-03-07
How
Is Bloomberg Like Pope John XXIII?, The New York Times
City Room Blog, 11-01-07
Coming
to a Neighborhood Near You, Gotham Gazette Wonkster
Blog, 11-01-07
At
Manhattan Institute, Bloomberg Praises Big Ideas, Denounces
Autocratic Urban Planning, New York Observer Politicker
Blog, 11-01-07
Click
here for a comparable event on upstate issues, 'Can Upstate
Cities Save Themselves?'
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CRD COMMENTARY
Give our regards
to Broadway: Bloomberg's on the right track with radical plan; now, go further by Hope Cohen, New York Daily News Online,
05-26-09
No
Parking, Ever by Hope Cohen, The New York Times,
08-18-08
Tolls,
Fees, and Fares by Hope Cohen, April 2008
Clearing
New York City Streets by Hope Cohen, Gotham Gazette,
04-14-08
The
Critics of Mayor's Toll Plan Get Silly by Hope Cohen,
New York Post, 03-31-08
A
Simpler Alternative to Congestion Pricing by Hope
Cohen, Gotham Gazette, 01-07-08
Public Transit Should be Cheaper Option by Hope
Cohen, NY Metro, 08-06-07
Fill Potholes in Congestion Pricing Plan by Hope
Cohen, New York Daily News, 07-26-07
A
Solution to Crawling City Traffic? Not So Fast by
Julia Vitullo-Martin, The New York Times, 05-20-07
Improve
Transit Before Congestion Pricing by Hope Cohen,
Gotham Gazette, 05-07-07
Don't
Wait for the Congestion Pricing Pilot: Fix Transit Now!
by Hope Cohen, April 2007
Buses,
Trains, and Automobiles by Hope Cohen, December
2006
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PODCAST
Hope
Cohen discusses congestion pricing
elaborating on a theme she discusses in the August
CRD newsletter
TESTIMONY
On Congestion Pricing, to New York City Council, March 24,
2008
On Congestion Pricing, to Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission, January 16, 2008
Supporting Intro. 199 to New York City Council Transportation Committee, January 25, 2007
PANEL DISCUSSION TRANSCRIPT
Road
Pricing Worked in London. Can It Work in New York? What
New Yorkers Think, December 2006
CRD
REPORT
Battling
Traffic: What New Yorkers Think About Road Pricing
Transportation expert Bruce Schaller shows that New
Yorkers would embrace congestion pricing as part of
a comprehensive solution to traffic problems.
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WHAT
THE PUBLIC SAID:
Finding
Ways to Ease the Gridlock Blues, New York Times,
12-24-06
OP-EDS:
We
Will Clog You, By Bruce Schaller and Hope Cohen,
NY Times, 12-17-06
Congestion
Pricing And The Future Of NYC: Addressing The Objections,
By Bruce Schaller, Gotham Gazette, December 2006
WHAT
THE PRESS SAID:
New
York City Voters Oppose 'Congestion Pricing', Bloomberg
News, 01-18-07
In
Traffic's Jam, Who’s Driving May Be Surprising,
New York Times, 01-12-07
Kick
Out the Jams, Village Voice, 01-02-07
Some
wishes for the new year, The Villager, Editorial,
12-27-06
The
Road Not Taken, New York Sun, 12-22-06
Opposites
team up against gridlock, AM New York, 12-12-06
Are
Tolls the Fix in NYC?, Times Record Herald,
Editorial, 12-08-06
Transit
Officials Sour on Idea of Increasing Express Bus Service,
New York Sun, 12-08-06
Fees
To Ease Midtown Traffic Jams May Get a New Look From
City Hall, New York Sun, 12-04-06
Bigger
Push for Charging Drivers Who Use the Busiest Streets,
New York Times 11-27-06
Groups
Study Congestion Pricing for City, New York Sun
11-20-06
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