Mitchell L. Moss

Mitchell L. Moss is the 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

"This is still a city of opportunity and energy. You can feel that on Park Avenue and you can feel it right here." - The Daily News
"The story of the last 30 years is that New York government has gotten better and more efficient while the government in the suburbs has gotten more expensive and worse." - The New York Times
"That's back when I could fit up that narrow staircase. The Statue of Liberty, like a lot of old icons, is pretty hot and really not made for modern tourism, which is very antiseptic." - The New York Times
"Wall Street became a high-margin business because of the deregulated environment. You basically had a casino culture operating in the financial-services industry." - New York Magazine
"Given the restructuring of the financial services industry, there is a need to reconsider the original plan for 10 million square feet of office space at ground zero." - The New York Times
"Mitchell Moss called Mr. Skyler 'the managerial guru of the city.'" - The New York Times
"The rise in job sprawl should be expected. Real estate is often cheaper outside the city core, and workers in suburban areas are less likely to belong to a union, which means lower labor costs." - USA Today
"As we have just recently learned, the federal government will do anything to save the 'bonus babies' of finance. But when it comes to a growing industry, like film and television, free market types oppose tax credits even when they are successful." - Times Union
"No matter how much money President Obama wants to spend on public works, federal rules and regulations make it difficult to get money rapidly into the hands of the state and local governments that carry out these projects." - The New York Post
"If they've been flourishing, they'll be able to survive. Their competitive advantage is the quality and design of their production." - The New York Times
"Caroline Kennedy has a platinum name and enormous appeal to New Yorkers. She brings energy and charisma. She brings immediate access to President Obama." - Los Angeles Times
"These are tough times. Fortunately, New York City is well-positioned to cope with the economic downturn. The reason is simple: New York is not a one-industry town like Detroit which is heavily tied to the automobile industry." - Rothman's Magazine.
"Thanksgiving isn't a holiday, it's an endurance test." - Newsday
"New Yorkers worried about the long-term impact of the global financial crisis should cheer up: the city will emerge all the stronger." - New York Post
"The city is safe, race relations are even-tempered, and the economy, until very recently, was going strong. There is a very different political climate in New York City today than there has been before." The New York Times
"This vote is a reflection of a lack of political capital, not of financial capital. The bankruptcy exists in our political leadership, not on Wall Street. We need to bail out Nancy Pelosi and George Bush." - Washington Post
"The real pain might be felt most in affluent suburbs in Connecticut and New Jersey, where many of the investment-bank employees live, spend their money, and pay taxes." Newsday
"We're talking about a place where 3.5 million people work every day so the city can roll with a lot of punches, even a mass layoff of very rich people." - Washington Post
"Mike Bloomberg is probably going to be more important and more influential out of office than in office. Instead of trying to improve conditions in New York's five boroughs, he's going to be looking at the five continents of the world." Business Week.
"Money goes to power and New York is still the center of money." The Financial Times
"Democrats in New York city were thrilled by the news- but they are about to find out that Mr. Bruno was their best friend in Albany, and life without him won't be easy." - The New York Times
"The World Trade Center site is so complex because of the infrastructure that runs underneath it and the requirements for rebuilding that no one should be surprised that the commercial development and the memorial will take longer than originally anticipated." - The New York Times, City Room Blog
"The city depends on the free flow of people, ideas, goods and money. Any effort to impose protectionism hurts us." - The New York Times
"Everybody in Albany learned that this guy [David Paterson] is very serious. He had the facts and he had the willingness to go hand-to-hand. The state and the horse racing industry couldn't risk it." - AM New York
"There's always going to be people who confuse ownership with identity." - Newsday
"Disaster recovery is a growing business." - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
"Places like Red Hook that were once a no-man's land are hipster havens, and Brooklyn is now a center for culture and art for the whole country. Whoever thought people would want to live on the Gowanus." - Newsday
"Now is the time to accelerate those project and help prop up a weak economy. This city is still a very powerful economy, and we're able to absorb these shocks. This is a resilient city - nothing stops New York." - Daily News
"It's not in the mayor's DNA to be the No. 2. Some people are born to bridesmaid, and some people are born to be captain." - New York Post
"Take transportation; politics encourages big ideas but not the wherewithal to pay for them. As a result, we have lots of project that are able to get a few million dollars for planning and design work, but not enough to ever bet built." - New York Times
"I think Mr. Spitzer's fate from here on in is going to be working with the officials in law enforcement to make sure he doesn't have to spend any time in a penitentiary." - Bloomberg.com
"Americans are very tolerant of the sex lives of their leaders. This was not a romantic relationship-- but one involving a criminal enterprise." - Newsday
"The dilemma is we need to be prudent, and part of the problem is that every politician has their favorite project. The political system has encouraged a large number of projects to enter the planning and design phase, but not enough to get to the implementation phase. There is a need to recognize that we have to pick the project that are a high priority rather than let a thousand flowers bloom." - NY Sun
"He may not be running for office, but everyone who runs for office is going to be coming and listening to Mike Bloomberg." - NY1 News
"Voice communications have been critical to the development of New York City as a center for ideas, information, and culture. Just as the city's ice-free natural harbot led to the rise of trade and commerce, the telephone has shaped New York City's emergence as a global hub for the flow of information in, through and out of the city." - from New York Talk Exchange
"[Harry Macklowe] was willing to pay the hefty $1.4 billion price because he'd already come up with the idea for the Apple store- a move that Mitchell Moss calls 'one of the best examples of real estate ingenuity in the city." - from CNNMoney.com
"Overall, Clinton is still ahead in the New York race, but her lead is slipping. A little drop can bring serious consequences, because unlike the Republicans, the Democrats do not have a winner-take-all system." - from National Public Radio
"We have 9/11 fatigue in the United States." in The Politico
"The Mayor really is king of New York." in the Washington Monthly
"The mere fact that two major media companies [News Corporation and Conde Naste] are willing to relocate to the Hudson Yards is an indication of how strong New York is a global provider of information." in The Real Deal
"While the Federal Management Agency has been strengthened since Hurricane Katrina when it failed to meet the needs of the Gulf Coast, and FEMA's improvements were evident in the response to the California wildfires, the underlying federal disaster response system is still in need of reform." in The San Francisco Chronicle

	Mitchell L. Moss
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	Mitchell L. Moss is the 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 "This is still a city of opportunity and energy. You can feel that on Park Avenue and you can feel it right here." - The Daily News "The story of the last 30 years is that New York government has gotten better and more efficient while the government in the suburbs has gotten more expensive and worse." - The New York Times "That's back when I could fit up that narrow staircase. The Statue of Liberty, like a lot of old icons, is pretty hot and really not made for modern tourism, which is very antiseptic." - The New York Times "Wall Street became a high-margin business because of the deregulated environment. You basically had a casino culture operating in the financial-services industry." - New York Magazine "Given the restructuring of the financial services industry, there is a need to reconsider the original plan for 10 million square feet of office space at ground zero." - The New York Times "Mitchell Moss called Mr. Skyler 'the managerial guru of the city.'" - The New York Times "The rise in job sprawl should be expected. Real estate is often cheaper outside the city core, and workers in suburban areas are less likely to belong to a union, which means lower labor costs." - USA Today "As we have just recently learned, the federal government will do anything to save the 'bonus babies' of finance. But when it comes to a growing industry, like film and television, free market types oppose tax credits even when they are successful." - Times Union "No matter how much money President Obama wants to spend on public works, federal rules and regulations make it difficult to get money rapidly into the hands of the state and local governments that carry out these projects." - The New York Post "If they've been flourishing, they'll be able to survive. Their competitive advantage is the quality and design of their production." - The New York Times "Caroline Kennedy has a platinum name and enormous appeal to New Yorkers. She brings energy and charisma. She brings immediate access to President Obama." - Los Angeles Times "These are tough times. Fortunately, New York City is well-positioned to cope with the economic downturn. The reason is simple: New York is not a one-industry town like Detroit which is heavily tied to the automobile industry." - Rothman's Magazine. "Thanksgiving isn't a holiday, it's an endurance test." - Newsday "New Yorkers worried about the long-term impact of the global financial crisis should cheer up: the city will emerge all the stronger." - New York Post "The city is safe, race relations are even-tempered, and the economy, until very recently, was going strong. There is a very different political climate in New York City today than there has been before." The New York Times "This vote is a reflection of a lack of political capital, not of financial capital. The bankruptcy exists in our political leadership, not on Wall Street. We need to bail out Nancy Pelosi and George Bush." - Washington Post "The real pain might be felt most in affluent suburbs in Connecticut and New Jersey, where many of the investment-bank employees live, spend their money, and pay taxes." Newsday "We're talking about a place where 3.5 million people work every day so the city can roll with a lot of punches, even a mass layoff of very rich people." - Washington Post "Mike Bloomberg is probably going to be more important and more influential out of office than in office. Instead of trying to improve conditions in New York's five boroughs, he's going to be looking at the five continents of the world." Business Week. "Money goes to power and New York is still the center of money." The Financial Times "Democrats in New York city were thrilled by the news- but they are about to find out that Mr. Bruno was their best friend in Albany, and life without him won't be easy." - The New York Times "The World Trade Center site is so complex because of the infrastructure that runs underneath it and the requirements for rebuilding that no one should be surprised that the commercial development and the memorial will take longer than originally anticipated." - The New York Times, City Room Blog "The city depends on the free flow of people, ideas, goods and money. Any effort to impose protectionism hurts us." - The New York Times "Everybody in Albany learned that this guy [David Paterson] is very serious. He had the facts and he had the willingness to go hand-to-hand. The state and the horse racing industry couldn't risk it." - AM New York "There's always going to be people who confuse ownership with identity." - Newsday "Disaster recovery is a growing business." - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette "Places like Red Hook that were once a no-man's land are hipster havens, and Brooklyn is now a center for culture and art for the whole country. Whoever thought people would want to live on the Gowanus." - Newsday "Now is the time to accelerate those project and help prop up a weak economy. This city is still a very powerful economy, and we're able to absorb these shocks. This is a resilient city - nothing stops New York." - Daily News "It's not in the mayor's DNA to be the No. 2. Some people are born to bridesmaid, and some people are born to be captain." - New York Post "Take transportation; politics encourages big ideas but not the wherewithal to pay for them. As a result, we have lots of project that are able to get a few million dollars for planning and design work, but not enough to ever bet built." - New York Times "I think Mr. Spitzer's fate from here on in is going to be working with the officials in law enforcement to make sure he doesn't have to spend any time in a penitentiary." - Bloomberg.com "Americans are very tolerant of the sex lives of their leaders. This was not a romantic relationship-- but one involving a criminal enterprise." - Newsday "The dilemma is we need to be prudent, and part of the problem is that every politician has their favorite project. The political system has encouraged a large number of projects to enter the planning and design phase, but not enough to get to the implementation phase. There is a need to recognize that we have to pick the project that are a high priority rather than let a thousand flowers bloom." - NY Sun "He may not be running for office, but everyone who runs for office is going to be coming and listening to Mike Bloomberg." - NY1 News "Voice communications have been critical to the development of New York City as a center for ideas, information, and culture. Just as the city's ice-free natural harbot led to the rise of trade and commerce, the telephone has shaped New York City's emergence as a global hub for the flow of information in, through and out of the city." - from New York Talk Exchange "[Harry Macklowe] was willing to pay the hefty $1.4 billion price because he'd already come up with the idea for the Apple store- a move that Mitchell Moss calls 'one of the best examples of real estate ingenuity in the city." - from CNNMoney.com "Overall, Clinton is still ahead in the New York race, but her lead is slipping. A little drop can bring serious consequences, because unlike the Republicans, the Democrats do not have a winner-take-all system." - from National Public Radio "We have 9/11 fatigue in the United States." in The Politico "The Mayor really is king of New York." in the Washington Monthly "The mere fact that two major media companies [News Corporation and Conde Naste] are willing to relocate to the Hudson Yards is an indication of how strong New York is a global provider of information." in The Real Deal "While the Federal Management Agency has been strengthened since Hurricane Katrina when it failed to meet the needs of the Gulf Coast, and FEMA's improvements were evident in the response to the California wildfires, the underlying federal disaster response system is still in need of reform." in The San Francisco Chronicle
Contact: Mitchell L. Moss NYU Wagner School 295 Lafayette St. New York, NY 10012-9604 (212) 998-6677 mitchell.moss@nyu.edu