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Pratt Center eNews - Spring 2008

News last updated May 3, 2008

In this Issue:

  • A Message from Pratt Center Director Brad Lander
  • Better Jobs for New Yorkers
  • COMMUTE Puts Bus Rapid Transit on the Map
  • Pushing a New Vision for Willets Point
  • Meet the Pratt Center Staff: Michael Bogdanffy-Kriegh and Rebecca Reich
  • Pratt Center Receives EPA Environmental Quality Award
  • Helping New Orleans Rebuild
  • Introducing Energy Matters
  • Contribute

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Pratt Center eNews - Winter 2008

News last updated February 2, 2008

In this Issue:

  • A Message from Pratt Center Director Brad Lander
  • Supporting Small Retailers
  • Connecting Congestion Pricing and Transportation Equity
  • Meet the Pratt Center Staff: Wendy Fleischer
  • Building a Balanced Sunset Park
  • City Adopts Community Plan for West Harlem
  • Introducing The Eminent Domain
  • One City/One Future Sparks Discussion
  • We're 45! Please Support the Pratt Center

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Transportation Equity Atlas Debuts

News last updated October 6, 2010

The Pratt Center has just released the Transportation Equity Atlas, a collection of downloadable maps showing commuting patterns and the length of rides to work for residents of a dozen low- and moderate-income neighborhoods in New York City, from East Flatbush to East Elmhurst to Washington Heights. The Atlas also shows where workers at major employment centers in the boroughs live, and how they get to work.

The Transportation Equity Atlas arrives just as the MTA announces fare hikes that add to the burden borne by low-income riders, who have already suffered the brunt of recent cutbacks in service.

Based on 2000 U.S. Census data, the Transportation Equity Atlas shows that even when the transit system had more frequent and extensive service, riders in the Atlas neighborhoods endured extremely long commutes to work. For example, more than half of subway riders in Soundview, in the Bronx, had rides of one hour or more.

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Transportation Equity Project

Project last updated April 6, 2009

It's here: The Transportation Equity Atlas of New York City

 

The Pratt Center's Transportation Equity Project works with grassroots organizations to make New York's transportation systems serve the needs of all New Yorkers and support sustainable growth of the city and its neighborhoods. Through research, policy advocacy, and organizing, the Transportation Equity Project promotes

  • Faster commutes for those with the longest rides.
    We use our data and mapping expertise to identify who in New York City needs better transit most urgently and examine cost-effective strategies for addressing those gap
  • Car and truck traffic reduction.
    We work to take vehicles off the road by promoting swifter, easier mass transit, and freight rail infrastructure that will reduce truck traffic.
  • Environmental quality and pedestrian safety.
    We help low- and moderate-income communities to create greenways and green streets where people can walk, bike, and breathe safely
  • Community participation in transportation policy.
    Pratt Center supports civic and community groups organizing across the city and region for cost-effective transportation investments that strengthen neighborhoods.

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Bus Rapid Transit

Project last updated April 16, 2009

Bus Rapid Transit makes buses move people almost as quickly and efficiently as a subway system, but at a much lower cost.

In tight-budget times, BRT makes more sense than ever. Multi-billion dollar subway and commuter rail projects don't serve the communities with the most urgent transit needs; they also require an all-or nothing commitment that burdens the transit system and its riders with debt, and don't deliver their promised benefits for many years.

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COMMUTE

Project last updated May 6, 2009

Communities United for Transportation Equity

COMMUTE is a coalition of New York City community groups that initially came together in 2007 to make congestion pricing work for working families, by advocating for the use of congestion pricing revenues to finance mass-transit investments benefiting underserved communities and low-income commuters.

COMMUTE is now continuing its work to promote mass-transit investments for inadequately served low-income New Yorkers. The Pratt Center is coordinating COMMUTE and providing supporting research.

COMMUTE members include:

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Transportation Equity Atlas

Page last updated September 21, 2010

The Transportation Equity Atlas

The Pratt Center compiled the Transportation Equity Atlas to compare mobility and transit access among New York City neighborhoods. We found great disparities in transportation access between higher-income, professional workers and low-wage manual and service workers. High housing costs mean that most low-wage workers live in areas outside the city's subway-rich core. Those workers also must travel to work sites dispersed widely around the city and region.

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Bus Rapid Transit: A Transportation Revolution at a Bargain Price

Issue Brief last updated May 27, 2009

Working with COMMUTE, a citywide coalition of community organizations working for transportation equity, the Pratt Center analyzed commuting patterns, the location of large employment centers, and existing bus routes to develop a proposal for a citywide bus rapid transit network. The Pratt Center's analysis has informed the New York City Department of Transportation's and MTA's current plans for rolling out bus rapid transit.

PrattCenter-BRT-IssueBrief.pdf

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Public Housing in New York City: Building Communities of Opportunity

Report last updated October 27, 2009

As New York City works to promote economic opportunity for the poor, a new report by the Pratt Center for Community Development, "Public Housing in New York City: Building Communities of Opportunity," provides an in-depth look at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and the nearly 500,000 New Yorkers who live in its 286 developments. Funded by the Brooklyn Community Foundation, a charitable organization devoted exclusively to support Brooklyn’s nonprofit community, the report outlines strategies that would help create and increase opportunities for public housing residents, nearly half of whom live in poverty.

PrattCenterPublicHousing.pdf

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