Cab of the Recent Past
The Bloomberg administration announced recently that it had chosen the new model for the New York City taxi cab, the minivan-like Nissan NV200. The van has a number of interesting features, including...
View ArticleParticipatory Budgeting Comes to (parts of) NYC
The New York Times reports that four City Council members will let their constituents decide how to spend $1 million, in a process known as participatory budgeting. Open meetings will be used to...
View ArticleRecent Victories for Open Geospatial Data
The tagline of this blog is “Urban Economic Geography and Open Everything”. Free City supports free and open source software, open access publishing, and open data. Many governments are making much of...
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Maps of NYPD Stops, 2011
The Bronx is heavily Black and Latino, and shows a high number of NYPD stops over much of the borough. There have been a lot of ups and downs in the battle over the NYPD Stop and Frisk program....
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