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One City/One Future

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One City/One Future, a collaboration between National Employment Law Project, New York Jobs with Justice, and Pratt Center, developed an ambitious new vision for economic development, in which growth delivers living wage jobs, affordable housing, environmental sustainability, and livable neighborhoods.
Keywords: 
job creation
affordable housing
citywide
land use
zoning
sustainable community planning
The One City/One Future Blueprint was the product of four years of a diverse collaboration to make economic development work for all New Yorkers.
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It provided an urgently needed framework for recovery from the current economic downturn. A vision for shared prosperity, it put the needs and voices of communities front and center. Most crucially it...

Project Status: 
Archived
Location: 
City-Wide

Transportation Equity Atlas

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Pratt Center launched the Transportation Equity Atlas project to begin to address the complex transportation challenges facing NYC's low- and moderate-income communities. We compiled, analyzed and mapped a range of data on commuter routes and travel time, comparing mobility and transit access among several neighborhoods.
Keywords: 
citywide
Metropolitan Transit Authority
commuters
transportation equity
We found alarming socioeconomic disparities in transportation access through a comprehensive analysis of commuter routes and travel time across NYC.
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We found great disparities in access between higher-income, professional workers and low-wage manual and service workers. High housing costs mean that most low-wage workers live in areas outside the city's subway-rich core. Those workers also must travel to work sites dispersed widely

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Project Status: 
Archived
Location: 
City-Wide
Status: 
Completed in 2010

RenewableNY

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In 2005, the New York Industrial Retention Network (NYIRN), now a part of the Pratt Center for Community Development, launched an initiative that combined project management and small grants to encourage industrial companies in New York City to implement energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.
Keywords: 
local manufacturing
urban manufacturing
citywide
zoning
RenewableNY combined project management and small grants to encourage industrial companies in New York City to implement energy efficiency projects.
Body: 

Projects ranged from simple lighting upgrades to more complex solar energy systems, cogeneration units, energy efficient processing equipment, and other measures. The projects leveraged an additional $2 million in...

Project Status: 
Archived
Location: 
City-Wide
Status: 
Completed in 2010

Resources for Manufacturers

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Made In NYC provides an extensive list of organizations that serve manufacturers in New York City. It is a great resource for businesses in the urban manufacturing sector. This list (below) includes financing resources, technical...

Date: 
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Resource Link: 
http://madeinnyc.org/resources/
Issue Area: 
Growing a More Equitable Economy
Keywords: 
local manufacturing
local retail
citywide
small businesses
urban manufacturing
Audience: 
Businesses
Source: 
Made In NYC

Retrofit NYC Guide to Detoxing Your Home

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Pratt Center created this guide, which provides simple steps for a greener and healthier living environment.

From the guide: "Every day, we are exposed to toxins that are dangerous to our health, our homes and the environment. Many of these chemicals are especially dangerous for...

Date: 
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Resource Upload: 
merged_document.pdf
Keywords: 
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
citywide
energy efficiency
Audience: 
Homeowners
Source: 
Pratt Center

Brownfield Redevelopment Planning

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Brownfields – defined by the EPA as “real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence…of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant” – are littered throughout many of NYC’s low- and moderate-income communities.
Keywords: 
land use
citywide
brownfields
zoning
sustainable community planning
Pratt Center works with local organizations to plan for the sustainable redevelopment of brownfields in low- and moderate-income communities.
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The product of deindustrialization, disinvestment and abandonment, brownfields are a barrier to local economic development, sustainable open space and quality public health, in addition to a blight on communities’ landscapes and well-being. 

Pratt Center has been a longtime...

Project Status: 
Active
Who's Working on this Project?: 
Vicki Weiner
Paula Crespo
Location: 
City-Wide

EmPower

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NYSERDA's EmPower program enables low-income homeowners to implement energy efficiency upgrades.

From NYSERDA: "Income-eligible New Yorkers can get no-cost upgrades that reduce energy bills. Now you don’t have to choose between utilities and other necessities."...

Date: 
Monday, October 7, 2013
Resource Upload: 
empower.pdf
Keywords: 
citywide
energy efficiency
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
Audience: 
Homeowners
Source: 
NYSERDA

Communities United for Transportation Equity

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COMMUTE is a coalition of New York City community groups that initially came together in 2007 to make congestion pricing work for working families, by advocating for the use of congestion pricing revenues to finance mass-transit investments benefiting underserved communities and low-income commuters.
Keywords: 
commuters
citywide
Metropolitan Transit Authority
transportation equity
bus rapid transit
climate resiliency
sustainable community planning
COMMUTE collaborated with Pratt Center to develop a plan for a citywide Bus Rapid Transit network.
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COMMUTE is now continuing its work to promote mass-transit investments for inadequately served low-income New Yorkers. The Pratt Center is coordinating COMMUTE and providing supporting research.

COMMUTE members include:

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Project Status: 
Archived
Who's Working on this Project?: 
Elena Conte
Location: 
City-Wide
Status: 
Completed in 2010

Bus Rapid Transit - COMMUTE route proposal

Who's Working on this Research?: 
Elena Conte
Keywords: 
citywide
Metropolitan Transit Authority
commuters
bus rapid transit
transportation equity

The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) and MTA are seeking public input on the rollout of bus rapid transit (BRT) – a vital new addition to New York City’s transit landscape that will make speedier commutes a reality for tens of thousands of New Yorkers now forced to rely on slow local buses.

Research Type: 
Maps
Issue Area: 
Democratizing Planning
Date: 
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Map: 
Make BRT Better

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