{"id":7207,"date":"2012-05-06T08:28:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T13:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7207"},"modified":"2012-05-06T08:28:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T13:28:01","slug":"so_you_have_mayor_bloomberg_and_nyc_co_to_thank_when_your_child_asks_you_for_1100_a_month_to_keep_the_dream_of_post-collegiate_greenpoint_alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/05\/so_you_have_mayor_bloomberg_and_nyc_co_to_thank_when_your_child_asks_you_for_1100_a_month_to_keep_the_dream_of_post-collegiate_greenpoint_alive.html","title":{"rendered":"So You Have Mayor Bloomberg And NYC &#038; Co. To Thank When Your Child Asks You For $1100 A Month To Keep The Dream Of Post-Collegiate Greenpoint Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-thirds of the way into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/06\/nyregion\/dissecting-the-allure-of-new-york-city.html\">Ginia Bellafante&#8217;s column on what draws people to New York<\/a> is this sociologist&#8217;s explanation of the city&#8217;s appeal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>But the past few years, defined by economic challenges, have seemed only to burnish the city&#8217;s appeal. An analysis of American Community Survey data by Susan Weber-Stoger of the Queens College Department of Sociology reveals that more people moved to New York City (over 223,000 of them a year on average) after the financial crisis in 2008 and through 2010 than did from 2005 to 2007, an increase of 10 percent.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>When I discussed some of these numbers with Miriam Greenberg, a sociologist who has written extensively about the branding of New York, she cited the highly strategized efforts the current mayoral administration has made to sell the city to the world.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing a third term can&#8217;t do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-thirds of the way into Ginia Bellafante&#8217;s column on what draws people to New York is this sociologist&#8217;s explanation of the city&#8217;s appeal: But the past few years, defined by economic challenges, have seemed only to burnish the city&#8217;s appeal. An analysis of American Community Survey data by Susan Weber-Stoger of the Queens College Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-please_make_it_stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7208,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions\/7208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}