The Center for an Urban Future
City to Region: Quit Stealing Our Jobs!
From 1975 to 2005, New York City shrank as a regional job hub relative to 12 surrounding counties in Long Island, southern New York and northern New Jersey, according to a "New York by the Numbers" report (PDF) released today by local public policy group the Center for an Urban Future.
Back in 1975, New York City accounted for 53.1 percent of the 5,022,801 jobs in the New York region: a broad swath of territory encompassing Suffolk and Nassau counties in Long Island; the Bronx, Brooklyn, New York, Queens and Richmond counties in New York City; Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester counties in southern New York; and Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Morris and Passaic counties in northern New Jersey.
By 1980, the city’s share of regional jobs had diminished to 50.5 percent, and the 12 regional counties overtook New York City in 1985 and have had a majority of jobs ever since. In 2005 – the last year the figures were tallied – the 12 surrounding counties accounted for 52.8 percent of the 6,171,642 jobs in the New York region. read more »
Brooklyn Brewery's Hindy Rather Bitter Toward City
“The Brooklyn Brewery was a confirmation of the American Dream,” co-founder Steve Hindy wrote in a commentary released today by the Center for an Urban Future called "Trouble Brewing."
“But after a frustrating, futile four-year search for a new Brewery site to expand operations in the city, I am now asking myself a question our success should have definitively answered: Does New York City really have a place for light manufacturing businesses like ours,” Mr. Hindy writes.
He and his partner started brewing beer from a defunct, Prohibition-era facility in Bushwick in 1987, and in 1991 leased a new 75,000-square-foot plant in Williamsburg for $3. read more »
