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Newspaper Article – Inter-Racial Educational Program Being Conducted by the Army at Fort Ontario, N.Y
An article published in the New York Age on November 13, 1943 describing the soldier literacy training school at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York.https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/stu_1210th_fort_ontario/1002/thumbnail.jp
A Bad Deal: The Proposal for a Mega-Mall on Parkland and the Willets Point Redevelopment
[Excerpt] The site for the proposed development of “Willets West” is public mapped parkland that forms a portion of Flushing Meadows Corona Park (FMCP). “Willets West” is one of three development pro- posals for the park that the Bloomberg administration has announced in its last eighteen months. The name “Willets West” is misleading; the proposal seeks to develop a 1.4 million square foot mall on public land that is located completely outside the actual Willets Point, on the other side of CitiField. Proposed to be developed by the Queens Development Group (QDG), a partnership between the Wil- pon family’s Sterling Equities and the Related Companies, many have dubbed the proposal the “Mets MegaMall” as a more accurate descriptor.
This report summarizes the results of a community opinion survey of more than 1,200 residents, compares and contrasts the “Mets MegaMall” proposal to the original plan for Willets Point and makes recommendations about what would make development that consumes public resources and public land appropriately accountable to neighborhood needs. These recommendations are informed both by the original process for considering the future of Willets Point as well as recent experiences with the proposal for the U.S. Tennis Association to expand its footprint within FMCP and the proposal for Major League Soccer to site a new, private stadium within FMCP. Prepared by the Fairness Coalition of Queens, it represents the input of member organizations and individuals from the Corona, Flushing, East Elmhurst, Jackson Heights and Elmhurst communities
Victories 2011: Make the Road New York Builds the Power of Latino and Working Class Communities Through Organizing, Transformative Education, Policy Innovation and the Provision of Survival Services
Brochure listing Make the Road New York’s victories during 2011
Dignidad, Comunidad y Poder: Make the Road New York 2010 Victories
Brochure listing Make the Road New York’s victories during 2010
Transgender Need Not Apply: A Report on Gender Identity Job Discrimination
[Excerpt] Make the Road New York investigated possible employment discrimination against transgender job-seekers in Manhattan’s retail sector using the research tool of matched pair testing. We sent out carefully matched pairs of job applicants, one transgender and one not, to apply for the same jobs. Each pair was equivalent in age and ethnicity and equipped with fictionalized resumes that were evenly matched. Both testing pairs underwent extensive training on how to adopt similar interview styles and how to document their job-seeking interactions objectively. Transgender testers were instructed to explicitly inform store managers and interviewers of their transgender status whenever feasible
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