Metropolitan New York

Industrial Restructuring in the New York Metropolitan Area

ndustrial restructuring is the ongoing process of reallocating workers among jobs in the economy as industries expand and contract. The New York metropolitan area economy underwent a significant amount of restructuring during the first half of the 1990s as a variety of factors—including new products, increased competition from other areas, and deregulation and fiscal problems—caused area firms ...

National and Regional Factors in the New York Metropolitan Economy

his paper explores the connections between broad economic indicators in the New York metropolitan region and their national counterparts. It compares the performance of the region in recent years with that of the nation and assesses the importance of national and local developments for the area’s economy. A cursory examination of the regional economic indicators provides two contrasting views o...

Powassan Meningoencephalitis, New York, New York, USA

Disease caused by Powassan virus (POWV), a tick-borne flavivirus, ranges from asymptomatic to severe neurologic compromise and death. Two cases of POWV meningoencephalitis in New York, USA, highlight diagnostic techniques, neurologic outcomes, and the effect of POWV on communities to which it is endemic.

Aerospace Sciences Meeting New York, New York

Demographic Dynamism and Metropolitan Change: Comparing Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Washington, DC

The fluid dimensions of demographic status—age, career progression over time, geographic redistribution, and growing duration of residence—have not been sufficiently recognized in urban theory and policy. Demographic dynamism deserves special attention because it is through the presumed consequences for people that we judge the desirability of economic, political, and physical changes in a city...