Celebrating the Very Special Arts of New York City Public School Students by Obiora Anekwe

“…Marquis Studios was named the new Very Special Arts New York City (VSA-NYC) program affiliate in August of 2013. …”
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Evaluation of school absenteeism data for early outbreak detection, New York City by Mostashari Farzad, Heffernan Richard, Besculides Melanie, Weiss Don

“…This paper describes an evaluation of the utility of school absenteeism data for early outbreak detection in New York City (NYC).</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>To assess citywide temporal trends in absenteeism, we downloaded three years (2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04) of daily school attendance data from the NYC Department of Education (DOE) website. …”
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In the zone: the effects of 2002–2010 upzoning on urban life in New York City by James A. Lian, James A. Lian, Arin Khare, Kai Vernooy

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New York City jails: COVID discharge policy, data transparency, and reform. by Eli Miller, Bryan D Martin, Chad M Topaz

“…During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered the release of individuals incarcerated in New York City jails who were at high risk of contracting the disease and at low risk of committing criminal reoffense. …”
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The Weight of New York City: Possible Contributions to Subsidence From Anthropogenic Sources by Tom Parsons, Pei‐Chin Wu, Meng (Matt) Wei, Steven D'Hondt

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Contact tracing reveals community transmission of COVID-19 in New York City by Sen Pei, Sasikiran Kandula, Jaime Cascante Vega, Wan Yang, Steffen Foerster, Corinne Thompson, Jennifer Baumgartner, Shama Desai Ahuja, Kathleen Blaney, Jay K. Varma, Theodore Long, Jeffrey Shaman

“…In this study, the authors analyse contact tracing records for ~650,000 suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cases in New York City during the second epidemic wave. They reconstruct transmission networks and find that vaccination and zone-based control policies likely contributed to control of the epidemic.…”
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Health inequalities in New York City, USA – a public health challenge by Kavitha P Das

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Comparative analysis of epidemiological trends of COVID-19 in Shanghai and New York City by WU Ting, CHEN Xi, LIU Mei, CHEN Yifan, LIU Wenbin, YIN Jianhua, CAO Guangwen

“…Compared with the Delta variant， the Omicron variant has stronger replication ability and infectivity， resulting in challenges to the containment of the epidemic in metropolis such as Shanghai and New York City. The epidemic in New York City remained crucial due to absence of effective countermeasures， while that in Shanghai has been effectively contained with strict countermeasures. …”
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The Mirage of Housing Affordability: An Analysis of Affordable Housing Plans in New York City by Bakry Elmedni

“…This article provides an analysis of how feasible Mayor de Blasio’s Five Borough Ten-Year Plan will be in providing adequate affordable housing to low-income residents in New York City (NYC). It examines three main topics: (a) the Plan’s focus on using the private sector to achieve public goals and whether this is likely to come with unintended consequences such as less focus on the needy and gentrification of struggling neighborhoods, (b) the role of the nonprofit sector, which has historically been a major player in housing policies in the NYC, and (c) how much influence or control a municipal government has on economic forces to avoid negative outcomes. …”
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An assessment of violent imagery in advertisements on city buses in Manhattan, New York City by Corey H. Basch, Jan Mohlman, Charles E. Basch

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Spatial regulation of taxicab services: Measuring empty travel in New York City by David King, Juan Saldarriaga

“…This research estimates empty taxi travel associated with spatial restrictions on passenger trip origins in New York City. In 2012, New York introduced a special taxi category intended to improve taxi access in areas of the city considered underserved by taxicabs. …”
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Risk of tick-borne pathogen spillover into urban yards in New York City by Nichar Gregory, Maria P. Fernandez, Maria Diuk-Wasser

“…Methods Using generalized linear models in a multimodel inference framework, we determined the residential yard- and local landscape-level features associated with the presence of three tick species of current and growing public health importance in residential yards across Staten Island, a borough of New York City, in the state of New York, USA. Results The amount and configuration of canopy cover immediately surrounding residential yards was found to strongly predict the presence of Ixodes scapularis and Amblyomma americanum, but not that of Haemaphysalis longicornis. …”
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A case study of aerosol processing and evolution in summer in New York City by Y. L. Sun, Q. Zhang, J. J. Schwab, W. N. Chen, M. S. Bae, Y. C. Lin, H. M. Hung, K. L. Demerjian

“…We have investigated an aerosol processing and evolution event from 21–22 July during the summer 2009 Field Intensive Study at Queens College in New York City (NYC). The evolution processes are characterized by three consecutive stages: (1) aerosol wet scavenging, (2) nighttime nitrate formation, and (3) photochemical production and evolution of secondary aerosol species. …”
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Public Participation, Mayoral Control, and the New York City Public School System by Marco A. Castillo

“…In this article, I utilize the case of New York City to assess the role and influence of public-participation mechanisms operating in large urban public school systems under mayoral control. …”
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Reshaping New York City: The Child Gaze in Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck (2017) by Andrés Buesa

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Beverage Availability and Price: Variations by Neighborhood Poverty Level in New York City

“…Objective: To describe the variability in the availability and price of sugary drinks, low-calorie drinks, and water/seltzer across high- and low-poverty census tracts in the five boroughs of New York City (NYC). Design: Cross-sectional study. Our primary analysis compared the overall sample of beverages. …”
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“College Material” Structural Care at a New York City Transfer School by C. Ray Borck

“…Based on ethnographic research at Brooklyn Community High School (BCHS), a transfer high school in New York City I demonstrate that students narrate their educational histories in terms of their experience of care, or lack of care, from teachers. …”
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Gendering Birth And Death In The Nineteenth-Century Syrian Colony Of New York City by Linda K. Jacobs

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Universal Genotyping in Tuberculosis Control Program, New York City, 2001–2003 by Carla M. Clark, Cynthia R. Driver, Sonal S. Munsiff, Jeffrey R. Driscoll, Barry N. Kreiswirth, Benyang Zhao, Adeleh Ebrahimzadeh, Max Salfinger, Amy S. Piatek, Jalaa' Abdelwahab

“…In 2001, New York City implemented genotyping to its tuberculosis (TB) control activities by using IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and spoligotyping to type isolates from culture-positive TB patients. …”
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Tracheostomy Outcomes in Patients With COVID-19 at a New York City Hospital by Rahul K. Sharma MD, Maeher R. Grewal, Sallie M. Long MD, Brendon DiDonna PA-C, Joshua Sturm MD, PhD, Susannah E. Hills MD, Scott H. Troob MD

“…Setting Tertiary academic medical center in New York City. Methods A prospectively collected database of patients with COVID-19 undergoing open tracheostomy between March 2020 and April 2020 was reviewed. …”
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