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Money Jungle
Description: For more than a century, Times Square has mesmerized the world with the spectacle of its dazzling supersigns, its theaters, and its often-seedy nightlife. New York City's iconic crossroads has drawn crowds of revelers, thrill-seekers, and other urban denizens, not to mention lavish outpourings of advertising and development money.
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Shaping a City
Picture your downtown vacant, boarded up, while the malls surrounding your city are thriving. What would you do?
In 1974 the politicians, merchants, community leaders, and business and property owners, of Ithaca, New York, joined together to transform main street into a pedestrian mall. Cornell University began an Industrial Research Park to keep and attract jobs. Developers began renovating run-down housing. City Planners crafted a long-range plan utilizing State legislation permitting a Business Improvement District (BID), with taxing authority to raise up to 20 percent of the City tax rate focused on downtown redevelopment.
Shaping a Cityis the behind-the-scenes story of one developer's involvement, from first buying and renovating small houses, gradually expanding his thinking and projects to include a recognition of the interdependence of the entire city-jobs, infrastructure, retail, housing, industry, taxation, banking and City Planning. It is the story of how he, along with other local developers transformed a quiet, economically challenged upstate New York town into one that is recognized nationally as among the best small cities in the country.
The lessons and principles of personal relationships, cooperation and collaboration, the importance of density, and the power of a Business Improvement District to catalyze change, are ones you can take home for the development and revitalization of your city.
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Documenting New York: Identifying and Saving New York's Primary Sources
Broad public access to primary sources is critical to ensure a balanced, equitable, and comprehensive understanding of our history. These sources are not always saved or accessible for research, and their absence leaves a gap in the documentation. The New York State Historical Records Advisory Board and the State Archives provide leadership to ensure that the records documenting the major themes in New York's history are identified, preserved in a professionally run repository, and accessible for public use. New York's strategy involves setting priorities for what will be documented and working with creators and managers of records to ensure that these will be saved. This article provides an overview of New York's documentation process and an analysis of the results of twenty years of work toward a fuller documentation of New York's past.
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Leveraging Standards To Enhance the Library's Goals and Resources
Discussion of the use of technology in primary grades focuses on a pilot project in the Orchard Park (New York) elementary schools that used computers to teach a nonfiction unit for English language arts, focusing on the New York State learning standards. Describes the role of school library media specialists and benefits to students. (LRW)
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