Mitchell L. Moss

Mitchell L. Moss is the Director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management and Henry Hart Rice Professor Urban Policy and Planning at New York University 's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He served as Director of NYU's Taub Urban Research Center from 1987 to 2003 where he directed research projects for the National Science Foundation, Charles Revson Foundation, U.S. Department of Commerce, New York State Economic Development Corporation, and leading private corporations. Professor Moss has been on the faculty of NYU since 1973 and served as Chairman of The Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts from 1981-83. He was voted "Best Teacher of the Year" by Wagner School students in 2002.

Moss's essays have been published in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Post, New York Daily News, Newsday, and The New Yor Observer. He has appeared on ABC's World News Tonight, The Today Show, Hardball, and the NBC Nightly News. In 2001, he served as an advisor to the mayoral campaign of Michael R. Bloomberg. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Association for a Better New York, the Advisory Board of the Taubman Center at Harvard University and the Advisory Committee of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project. He has chaired the City of New York 's Neighborhood Business Awards Committee since 2003.

Professor Moss received his B.A. from Northwestern University where he was elected to DERU, the men's honorary society; M.A. from the University of Washington , and Ph.d from the University of Southern California .

In Recent News

"The last few days before Christmas are the peaks of driving times." The New York Post
"The people paying the taxes that are carrying the state through hard times live or make their money in New York City, and they deserve a decent transit system." The New York Times
"When the [Olympic] Games open in July in London, New Yorkers can sit back, turn on the TV and reap the deep economic benefits of the Olympic Games that weren't." The Daily News
"In light of how quickly the Far West Side developed, we've done better without the Olympics than anyone would have anticipated." The New York Times
Interest rates are at a record low and contractors are desperate for work. This is when public agencies should be investing in capital projects. It makes enormous economic sense." Bond Buyer
"We're subsidizing the slackers in the rest of the country." The Daily News
"Every person who sees 'Batman' is going to say, 'Boy I'd like to see New York.' " The New York Times
"This region cannot survive without investing in our cross-Hudson links; these artieries are our lifeline." The Daily News
"If it's tough times for the arts, it's even tougher for the advocates. People want to give to the organizations that are involved in creating art. The advocacy groups are secondary." The New York Times
"The Manhattan DA's Office is just so highly valued and respected, this is just something New Yorkers are not accustomed to." The New York Post
"Most New Yorkers know everything about where they live and where they work, but take them out of their immediate area, and they might as well be in Abu Dhabi." - The New York Times
"The NY State Constitution creates a strong governor. The governor has enormous power to force the state legislature into session, to control the flow of money to various economic development projects, and to use his power of appointment to exec agencies and public authorities." - The Washington Post
"Taxis aren't just for rich people. Every New Yorker takes one sometimes." - Newsday
"Mr. Weiner's self-destructive and deceptive behavior means that this seven-term congressman will never get elected mayor of New York City." - The New York Times
"Trump is the master of self-promotion. The question is, is he a serious candidate for president, or hopes to help his TV show and other enterprises?" - McClatchy
"The Constitution is subject to interpretation and so is the street grid of New York." - The New York Times
"Almost 10 years after the Sept. 11 attacks, when most people thought this was a city without a future, the government's official count reveals that the city continues to be a magnet for people from all over the world." - The Daily News
"With the national spotlight on the trade center site, the demolition became part of a larger political and environmental challenge." - KSRO
"New York City has weathered the national recession far better than other cities, outpacing the nation in job growth last year." - The New York Post
"New York is an intellectual city. People want to study in New York. You have to recognize how much this has really changed." - The New York Obsever
"The public has come to realize that the party's over, and that means the good times are over not only for them, but for public employees too." - The Huffington Post
"This is a type-A culture. It's a work-oriented, achievement-oriented island. Because of that they wnat to be near their offices, it's a huge benefit to productivity." - The Daily News
"A bridge is in the sky; a bridge has poetry - even the ugliest bridge has a following. But a tunnel? A tunnel is much more mechanical. Tunnels are something you get through, not something you experience." - The New York Times
"There's nothing as powerful as the dead arm of a bureaucrat. New Jersey, which is a state built on freeways, is now going to figure out how hard it is to access federal funds." - Wall Street Journal
"Just because you teach 40 people in a classroom doesn't mean you can manage a system of this size." - Wall Street Journal
"Heavy on builders, light on planners (with the exception of NYU's Mitchell Moss)" - Transportation Nation
"When will a woman be elected here? It's just shocking." - DNAinfo.com
"Having 40,000 students is like having year-round tourists." - New York Magazine
"We have a divorced mayor with a girlfriend; there's nothing wrong with having a divorced governor with a girlfirend." - Wall Street Journal
"Andrew Cuomo and Jerry Brown have much in common, even though they are 3,000 miles apart and 20 years apart in age." New York Times
"The subway works well if you know the system, but for most tourists, just locating a map on a subway car is a challenge." - New York Times
"What's happening to government is what people are facing in their private lives. They don't have money to meet their expenses to they're selling off their assets." - The Star Ledger
"People don't come to New York to visit caves. They want the views, the height, the experience of tall buildings." - New York Times
"It's shocking how much the culture of Con Ed has been transformed." - New York Magazine
"New Yorkers enjoy a kind of visceral contact with the mayor. People invite him to events hoping he'll sprinkle holy water." The New York Post
"The Navy Yards really had a solid 30 years of public neglect." - The New York Times
"Ray is a rock star that also happens to be the police commissioner. He's smart, he's fun and he radiates power." - The New York Post
"We've gone from public contracts for buildings to underwriting to now controlling pension funds. The state pension funds have become the new honey pot." - The Politico
"There wasn't a constituency for Governors Island in Albany, but in New York there's an appetite for it." - The New York Times
"Mike Bloomberg has been very effective in attracting talented people and letting them thrive because he gives them autonomy." - The New York Post
"The entire state cannot survive if we continue to act as if all 62 counties can flourish. Yet that's how our political and fiscal systems work- as upstate shrinks, it commands a higher and higher per capita chunk of the state budget." -The New York Times
"Several factors converged to make the event one of those rare untarnished successes for the American public." - MetroNews
"It's a time for singles, not home runs." - The New York Times
"The ethnic press gives local candidates a great opportunity to get exposure, to get known and to get attention." - The New York Times
"Like a tsunami that follows an undersea earthquake, collateral damage from the collapse of credit markets is about to strike the millions of daily transit riders in America's biggest cities." - The New York Times
"Being mayor of New York is actually the best job in politics- even better than being president of the United States." - Wall Street Journal
"Most of the impact is in the outer boroughs. It allowed Ikea to open a huge store in Red Hook. They made neighborhoods outside Manhattan very attractive." - New York Post
"[Mr. Bloomberg] took on some of the messiest and most complicated projects. Economic development takes longer than educating a child in school." -The New York Times
"The Capital Region has urban environments nearby beautiful countryside, and that's part of its appeal." - Times Union
"Bedford-Stuyvesant's residents are generally not dependant on Wall Street salaries and bonuses, they have not had to readjust their spending habits as much as residents of the Upper East Side or Brooklyn Heights." - The New York Times
"This is a city in which newspapers are an important part of our culture. The major newspapers in New York are not read by young people. Fortunately, we still have enough older people for whom it's part of a daily habit." - The Village Voice
"What made the Bronx so powerful was the engine driving these people out. The subway was connected to Manhattan." - New York Times City Room
"For more than a half century, the Lower Manhattan economy has been undergoing change. The epicenter of finance has moved to new locations." - New York Times
"The dream may never die, but Sen. Ted Kennedy's death marks the end of the Irish in Democratic politics." The Politico
"As the economy recovered, Bloomberg set about trying to transform the city, on a scale not seen since the days of Robert Moses." - The New Yorker
"The city has got a great number of indicators that have been able to continue to do well: higher education, health care, and certainly tourism." - New York Magazine
"The great irony about New York is there are so many things to do here and residents are just gradually realizing you don't have to go anywhere else to have a good time." Metro New York
"When times are going well, you don't look at the pension report. When times are going badly, you start worrying about them." - New York Post
"No matter how far the economy falters, there is always a winner. And no city does better when the nation is at the brink of disaster than Washington, DC." - Newgeography.com

	Mitchell L. Moss
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	Mitchell L. Moss is the Director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management and Henry Hart Rice Professor Urban Policy and Planning at New York University 's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He served as Director of NYU's Taub Urban Research Center from 1987 to 2003 where he directed research projects for the National Science Foundation, Charles Revson Foundation, U.S. Department of Commerce, New York State Economic Development Corporation, and leading private corporations. Professor Moss has been on the faculty of NYU since 1973 and served as Chairman of The Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts from 1981-83. He was voted "Best Teacher of the Year" by Wagner School students in 2002. Moss's essays have been published in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Post, New York Daily News, Newsday, and The New Yor Observer. He has appeared on ABC's World News Tonight, The Today Show, Hardball, and the NBC Nightly News. In 2001, he served as an advisor to the mayoral campaign of Michael R. Bloomberg. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Association for a Better New York, the Advisory Board of the Taubman Center at Harvard University and the Advisory Committee of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project. He has chaired the City of New York 's Neighborhood Business Awards Committee since 2003. Professor Moss received his B.A. from Northwestern University where he was elected to DERU, the men's honorary society; M.A. from the University of Washington , and Ph.d from the University of Southern California . In Recent News "The last few days before Christmas are the peaks of driving times." The New York Post "The people paying the taxes that are carrying the state through hard times live or make their money in New York City, and they deserve a decent transit system." The New York Times "When the [Olympic] Games open in July in London, New Yorkers can sit back, turn on the TV and reap the deep economic benefits of the Olympic Games that weren't." The Daily News "In light of how quickly the Far West Side developed, we've done better without the Olympics than anyone would have anticipated." The New York Times Interest rates are at a record low and contractors are desperate for work. This is when public agencies should be investing in capital projects. It makes enormous economic sense." Bond Buyer "We're subsidizing the slackers in the rest of the country." The Daily News "Every person who sees 'Batman' is going to say, 'Boy I'd like to see New York.' " The New York Times "This region cannot survive without investing in our cross-Hudson links; these artieries are our lifeline." The Daily News "If it's tough times for the arts, it's even tougher for the advocates. People want to give to the organizations that are involved in creating art. The advocacy groups are secondary." The New York Times "The Manhattan DA's Office is just so highly valued and respected, this is just something New Yorkers are not accustomed to." The New York Post "Most New Yorkers know everything about where they live and where they work, but take them out of their immediate area, and they might as well be in Abu Dhabi." - The New York Times "The NY State Constitution creates a strong governor. The governor has enormous power to force the state legislature into session, to control the flow of money to various economic development projects, and to use his power of appointment to exec agencies and public authorities." - The Washington Post "Taxis aren't just for rich people. Every New Yorker takes one sometimes." - Newsday "Mr. Weiner's self-destructive and deceptive behavior means that this seven-term congressman will never get elected mayor of New York City." - The New York Times "Trump is the master of self-promotion. The question is, is he a serious candidate for president, or hopes to help his TV show and other enterprises?" - McClatchy "The Constitution is subject to interpretation and so is the street grid of New York." - The New York Times "Almost 10 years after the Sept. 11 attacks, when most people thought this was a city without a future, the government's official count reveals that the city continues to be a magnet for people from all over the world." - The Daily News "With the national spotlight on the trade center site, the demolition became part of a larger political and environmental challenge." - KSRO "New York City has weathered the national recession far better than other cities, outpacing the nation in job growth last year." - The New York Post "New York is an intellectual city. People want to study in New York. You have to recognize how much this has really changed." - The New York Obsever "The public has come to realize that the party's over, and that means the good times are over not only for them, but for public employees too." - The Huffington Post "This is a type-A culture. It's a work-oriented, achievement-oriented island. Because of that they wnat to be near their offices, it's a huge benefit to productivity." - The Daily News "A bridge is in the sky; a bridge has poetry - even the ugliest bridge has a following. But a tunnel? A tunnel is much more mechanical. Tunnels are something you get through, not something you experience." - The New York Times "There's nothing as powerful as the dead arm of a bureaucrat. New Jersey, which is a state built on freeways, is now going to figure out how hard it is to access federal funds." - Wall Street Journal "Just because you teach 40 people in a classroom doesn't mean you can manage a system of this size." - Wall Street Journal "Heavy on builders, light on planners (with the exception of NYU's Mitchell Moss)" - Transportation Nation "When will a woman be elected here? It's just shocking." - DNAinfo.com "Having 40,000 students is like having year-round tourists." - New York Magazine "We have a divorced mayor with a girlfriend; there's nothing wrong with having a divorced governor with a girlfirend." - Wall Street Journal "Andrew Cuomo and Jerry Brown have much in common, even though they are 3,000 miles apart and 20 years apart in age." New York Times "The subway works well if you know the system, but for most tourists, just locating a map on a subway car is a challenge." - New York Times "What's happening to government is what people are facing in their private lives. They don't have money to meet their expenses to they're selling off their assets." - The Star Ledger "People don't come to New York to visit caves. They want the views, the height, the experience of tall buildings." - New York Times "It's shocking how much the culture of Con Ed has been transformed." - New York Magazine "New Yorkers enjoy a kind of visceral contact with the mayor. People invite him to events hoping he'll sprinkle holy water." The New York Post "The Navy Yards really had a solid 30 years of public neglect." - The New York Times "Ray is a rock star that also happens to be the police commissioner. He's smart, he's fun and he radiates power." - The New York Post "We've gone from public contracts for buildings to underwriting to now controlling pension funds. The state pension funds have become the new honey pot." - The Politico "There wasn't a constituency for Governors Island in Albany, but in New York there's an appetite for it." - The New York Times "Mike Bloomberg has been very effective in attracting talented people and letting them thrive because he gives them autonomy." - The New York Post "The entire state cannot survive if we continue to act as if all 62 counties can flourish. Yet that's how our political and fiscal systems work- as upstate shrinks, it commands a higher and higher per capita chunk of the state budget." -The New York Times "Several factors converged to make the event one of those rare untarnished successes for the American public." - MetroNews "It's a time for singles, not home runs." - The New York Times "The ethnic press gives local candidates a great opportunity to get exposure, to get known and to get attention." - The New York Times "Like a tsunami that follows an undersea earthquake, collateral damage from the collapse of credit markets is about to strike the millions of daily transit riders in America's biggest cities." - The New York Times "Being mayor of New York is actually the best job in politics- even better than being president of the United States." - Wall Street Journal "Most of the impact is in the outer boroughs. It allowed Ikea to open a huge store in Red Hook. They made neighborhoods outside Manhattan very attractive." - New York Post "[Mr. Bloomberg] took on some of the messiest and most complicated projects. Economic development takes longer than educating a child in school." -The New York Times "The Capital Region has urban environments nearby beautiful countryside, and that's part of its appeal." - Times Union "Bedford-Stuyvesant's residents are generally not dependant on Wall Street salaries and bonuses, they have not had to readjust their spending habits as much as residents of the Upper East Side or Brooklyn Heights." - The New York Times "This is a city in which newspapers are an important part of our culture. The major newspapers in New York are not read by young people. Fortunately, we still have enough older people for whom it's part of a daily habit." - The Village Voice "What made the Bronx so powerful was the engine driving these people out. The subway was connected to Manhattan." - New York Times City Room "For more than a half century, the Lower Manhattan economy has been undergoing change. The epicenter of finance has moved to new locations." - New York Times "The dream may never die, but Sen. Ted Kennedy's death marks the end of the Irish in Democratic politics." The Politico "As the economy recovered, Bloomberg set about trying to transform the city, on a scale not seen since the days of Robert Moses." - The New Yorker "The city has got a great number of indicators that have been able to continue to do well: higher education, health care, and certainly tourism." - New York Magazine "The great irony about New York is there are so many things to do here and residents are just gradually realizing you don't have to go anywhere else to have a good time." Metro New York "When times are going well, you don't look at the pension report. When times are going badly, you start worrying about them." - New York Post "No matter how far the economy falters, there is always a winner. And no city does better when the nation is at the brink of disaster than Washington, DC." - Newgeography.com
Contact: Mitchell L. Moss NYU Wagner School 295 Lafayette St. New York, NY 10012-9604 (212) 998-6677 mitchell.moss@nyu.edu