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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
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