Research Overview

Our Portfolio of Projects and Initiatives

Civic and Political Attitudes and Engagement

• The Impact of Ranked Choice Voting on the 2021 City Elections (2021-2022)
• Public Service Satisfaction Survey (January 2022)
• Civic and Political Participation in the Era of COVID (2021-2022)
• New York City Civic Engagement Survey (2019)

Public Policies and Urban Governance

• Strengthening Communities Summit (2015)

• Toward a 21^st Century City for All (2013)

• Rethinking the Urban Agenda (2001)

Census and other Surveys

• Census Hard-to-Count Map - Self-Response Rates Mapped and Analyzed: 2000, 2010 & 2020
• Census 2020 - Reports, Maps and Analysis
• Long Island Index
  • Long Island Index Interactive Map (2008-2017)
  • Long Island Multifamily Housing Map (2016) 
  • 2008 Index Data Analysis
  • Special Districts Election Finder (no longer online)
• Long Island Historical Census Atlas (2015)
• Census 2010 - Reports, Maps and Analysis
• American Community Survey 2005-2009 - Working with the full dataset
• Online Statistical Data Analysis of select Census Bureau Datasets (2006)

Immigration and Demographic Change

• Reordering Occupation, Race, and Place in Metropolitan New York (2020)

• The Changing Face of World Cities: The Second Generation in West Europe and the U.S. (2012)

• End of segregation? Hardly. (2012) A nuanced response to The Manhattan Institute (MI) report, The End of the Segregated Century
• 40 Years of Changing Demographics (2010)
• Demographic Change in Metropolitan America: 2000 to 2010
• "Putting Data to Work" with the NY Immigration Coalition (2007)
• Second Generation Immigrants (2008)
• New York's Changing Middle Class (2007) A presentation by CUR director John Mollenkopf
• Hispanic Immigration on Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk Counties) (2007)
• The Foreign-Born Population in Upstate New York (2007)
• New York City Immigrants: The 1990s Wave (2005)
• Visualizing a Changing Region, Block by Block (2011)
  • Interactive Map
  • Data Analysis

• Inheriting the City: The Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York (2009)

• Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation (2004)

Voting, Elections, and Legislative Districting

• NYC's Changing Electorate: 2015-2016
• NYC Campaign Contributions Mapped Online – 2013, 2017 and 2021 (CUNY Mapping Service)
• New Hampshire Presidential Primary 2016 (CUNY Mapping Service)
• Toward a 21st Century City for All: Progressive Policies for NYC in 2013 and Beyond
• “Communities of Interest” and City Council Districting in New York, 2012-2013
• Electoral Maps of NY's 11th Congressional District (2015) (CUNY Mapping Service)
• Who Represents Me: NYC (2015) (CUNY Mapping Service)
• NYC Election Atlas (2013) (CUNY Mapping Service)
• New York Senate and Assembly Districts 2012: Eligible Voters Mapped (CUNY Mapping Service)
• New York Congressional Districts 2012: Eligible Voters Mapped (CUNY Mapping Service)
• Interactive Redistricting Maps for the 2010-2013 Election Cycle (CUNY Mapping Service)
  • New York State Legislature and Congress
  • New York City Council
  • Nassau County Legislature

• The Shifting Map of Congressional Districts in New York State: 2005-2009 population estimates (2011)

• Implications of the American Community Survey 2005-2009 on NYS Legislative Redistricting (2010)
• 2008 Presidential Election Voting Results and Analysis (CUNY Mapping Service)

Environment and Infrastructure

• Patterns of Attrition and Retention in the Build It Back Program of the Office of Housing Recovery (2019)

• Hudson River-Raritan Estuary Comprehensive Restoration Plan map (2017) (CUNY Mapping Service)
• New Subway Station in NYC: Hudson Yards (2015) (CUNY Mapping Service)
• NY-NJ Harbor Estuary Program Citizen Science monitoring program (2014) (CUNY Mapping Service)
• NYC Subway and Bus Data in GIS Format (2010) (CUNY Mapping Service)
• Geocoding at CUR (ongoing - last updated 2009) (CUNY Mapping Service)
• NYC OASIS: The Open Accessible Space Information System (2009) (CUNY Mapping Service)
• USDA Forest Service's Stewardship Mapping Network (2007) (CUNY Mapping Service)
• Handheld Mapping and Data Capture with NYC Department of Finance (2007) (CUNY Mapping Service)
• Willets Point Land Use Study (2006) (CUNY Mapping Service)
• Innovative Approaches to the Spatial Analysis of Crime Patterns in New York City (1999)

Jobs, Economy and Labor

• The Maker Economy in Action (2016)
• Workforce Trends in the NYC Region (2008)
• The Future of Low Wage Work in Metropolitan America (2008)  (CUNY Data Service)
• Career Planning Tools - maps, guides, and occupational profiles, organized by industry (NYCLMIS)
• Jobs Reports (LMIS)