CUF is a leading NYC-based think tank focused on expanding economic opportunity.
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Center for an Urban Future retweeted
Excited to partner with Center for an Urban Future @nycfuture on a petition that supports their Putting the “rec” back into “Parks & Rec" report and our @NY4P and #PlayFairCoalition budget asks for parks and open space.
Sign our petition here:
secure.ny4p.org/a/respectthe…
Public recreation is an antidote to the loneliness epidemic, connecting NYers and supporting physical/mental health. But disinvestment has stretched @NYCParks rec centers thin.
NY4P and CUF (@nycfuture) spoke with @nytimes about the need to change course.
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Center for an Urban Future retweeted
Thanks to our friends at @nycfuture for mentioning @accompanycap in their important new report "15 Policy Ideas for NYC to Start 2026" citing our sponsorship of the annual @momocrawl in the section on boosting mom & pops with neighborhood-specific events: nycfuture.org/research/15-po…
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Center for an Urban Future retweeted
17 Dec 2025
Making New York City more affordable is essential, but the flip side of the coin for @ZohranKMamdani is the central need to improve upward mobility, so incomes grow.
Read @jbowlesnyc and Eli Dworkin of @nycfuture.
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Center for an Urban Future retweeted
5 Nov 2025
Appreciate seeing the first press conference held by Mayor-Elect Mamdani at Queens' crown jewel, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
@ZohranKMamdani — we have ideas (20, in fact) at @nycfuture about its future. Let's chat!
5 Nov 2025
Zohran Mamdani announces Maria Torres-Springer, Lina Khan, Grace Bonilla and Melanie Hartzog as transition co-chairs.
“The poetry of campaigning may have come to a close last night at nine, but the beautiful prose of governing has only just begun.”
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Center for an Urban Future retweeted
28 Aug 2025
QBG is at the northeast corner of Flushing Meadows Corona Park, the fourth largest public park in NYC.
A new must-read report by @NYCFuture breaks down possibilities and potential at FMCP and its connection to QBG. @JohnSurico
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Center for an Urban Future retweeted
21 Aug 2025
There is no park like Flushing Meadows. But as demands and challenges grew, public dollars haven't kept up. In the latest from @nycfuture, @jbowlesnyc and I laid out 20 ideas for local leaders to deliver the sustained investment FMCP has long been due.
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19 May 2025
Join us and @BklynFoundation on 6/3 for a half-day symposium to generate concrete ideas for a stronger and more equitable Brooklyn. Register here: nycfuture.org/events/ideas-f…
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New research from Tech:NYC and the @nycfuture on NYC’s tech edge just dropped, and wow, it's a jackpot of data! blog.technyc.org/news/sustai…
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Center for an Urban Future retweeted
6 May 2025
Tech is "now the engine driving [NYC's] economy forward, adding jobs at nearly 10x the rate of the city’s overall economy since [2020] and accounting for a striking 14% of all employment growth citywide over the past decade."
More from @nycfuture and @TechNYC 👇
New research from Tech:NYC and the @nycfuture on NYC’s tech edge just dropped, and wow, it's a jackpot of data! blog.technyc.org/news/sustai…
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Center for an Urban Future retweeted
6 May 2025
We've known for a while that our housing shortage is a serious threat to New York's economy.
Now, a new @nycfuture report shows that the biggest threat to one of our fastest-growing industries is housing costs.
ALT Article from The City But the biggest threat to the sector is the housing crisis. “Housing affordability is challenge Number 1, 2 and 3,” the report says. The college grads the industry needs are increasingly worried they won’t be able to afford to live in New York because of soaring rents.
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Center for an Urban Future retweeted
4 Apr 2025
Nice shoutout @nycfuture!
The think tank quietly influencing New York’s top officials crainsnewyork.com/politics-p… via @CrainsNewYork
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Center for an Urban Future retweeted
3 Apr 2025
new @CrainsNewYork: a profile of Center for an Urban Future, the think tank that's quietly exerted significant influence on NYC policy and caught the ears of top officials through hyper-specific ideas for improving economic mobility.
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Center for an Urban Future retweeted
14 Mar 2025
A recent report by the Center for an Urban Future @nycfuture is a reality check on a looming crisis for many states: providing adequate services and supports for #olderadults. #Medicaid helps fund home and community-based programs like PACE that save costs healthjournalism.org/blog/20…
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Center for an Urban Future retweeted
6 Mar 2025
Thank you @nycfuture for inviting our Chief Impact Officer, Ron Summers, to speak on their panel yesterday about why NYC’s public schools and teachers are vital to closing the tech opportunity gap:
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Center for an Urban Future retweeted
6 Mar 2025
I joined @nycfuture for a discussion on Artificial Intelligence & the importance of closing the tech gap in our communities.
We must equip our educators with the training needed to teach our students & tackle the digital divide to ensure that our families have access to tech.
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Center for an Urban Future retweeted
6 Mar 2025
Last week, @nycfuture and CRNY hosted a forum that explored the growing power of artists as catalysts for thriving communities statewide, and discussed ways that officials can more fully integrate the arts into New York state's policy agenda.
Replay: youtube.com/watch?v=AdxO8CAH…
ALT Three photographs of panelists of varying races and genders seated in white chairs inside a room with patterned carpets, beige walls, wall sconces, and large chandeliers. People sit at long and circular tables facing the panel.
ALT Three photographs of panelists of varying races and genders seated in white chairs inside a room with patterned carpets, beige walls, wall sconces, and large chandeliers. People sit at long and circular tables facing the panel.
ALT Three photographs of panelists of varying races and genders seated in white chairs inside a room with patterned carpets, beige walls, wall sconces, and large chandeliers. People sit at long and circular tables facing the panel.
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21 Feb 2025
RT @Vanessalgibson: A great honor to participate in a fireside chat with the Center for Urban Future (CUF), on Ideas for Creating a Stronge…
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Broadway ticket sales to residents of NYC’s suburbs are still below pre-pandemic levels. Join us on 1/7 as we explore how to accelerate the return of regional visitors to Broadway. With Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, NYC CM Erik Bottcher and more
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Center for an Urban Future retweeted
13 Nov 2024
Nice to see @nycfuture's report on making NYC a leader in AI featured in the @nytimes's New York Today. Interviewed some of the smartest folks I know in NYC's climate tech/AI sphere to shape the recs along with @wetwax and @jbowlesnyc. Give it a read! nytimes.com/2024/11/13/nyreg…
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13 Nov 2024
In the decade ahead, experts believe artificial intelligence will be the fastest growing segment of the tech sector and a driver of economic growth.
Our new report offers 5 fresh ideas that policymakers can implement to maximize NYC’s AI opportunity: nycfuture.org/research/maxim…
ALT A graphic with 5 sections labeled 1 to 5. The background colors move from a spectrum of navy blue to fuchsia. The ideas from 1 to 5 read: Launch three major challenge-based AI procurements to make New York a more livable city; Offer subsidized compute to incentivize AI start-ups to move to NYC; Massively unlock city data accessibility; Launch an NYC AI Service Corps to upgrade AI capabilities to serve the public good; Recruit major AI conferences to New York for the next five years.
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