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CUF in the News

	Mile-long under-line market backed for Harlem, Crain's New York Business, July 30, 2010
	'High Line for Harlem' Plan Gains Support, DNAinfo, July 29, 2010
	Report calls for "A High Line for Harlem", The Real Deal, July 29, 2010
	Think Tank Wants Harlem High Line That Isn't Actually a High Line, Curbed NY, July 29, 2010
	Brian Lehrer Show Discusses An Aqueduct Alternative, WNYC, July 20, 2010
	Nonprofit groups make just a handful of dollars off street fairs throughout city, New York Daily News, July 19, 2010
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New York by the Numbers

Economic snapshots of the 5 boroughs

This month's data... This edition of New York by the Numbers reveals that nearly a third of all adult workers in New York City are employed in low-wage jobs. While the percentage of low-wage workers is high across the city, the Bronx is in a league of its own, with 42 percent of the boroughs workers in low-wage jobs.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Addresses New Yorks Creative Community at Creative New York Conference

Mayor Bloomberg announced the creation of a new city office to support nonprofits during a major conference at MoMA convened on April 4th by The Center for an Urban Future, The City of New York, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Partnership for New York City. The conference focused on the findings of the Center's December 2005 "Creative New York" report.

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Transcript of Creative New York Conference

Click here to read the full transcript of the event.

The full transcript of the Creative New York conference includes an opening speech by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and panel discussions that featured prominent leaders such as Barry Diller, Bill T. Jones, Glenn D. Lowry, Terry J. Lundgren, James Schamus, Clive Gillinson, Ann Moore, Fernando Espuelas, Mary Ann Tighe, Virginia Louloudes, Daniel L. Doctoroff, Kate D. Levin, Judith Rodin, John E. Sexton and Kathryn S. Wylde.

Policy Impact

During the Creative New York conference, the city announced two new initiatives to support New York's creative sector:

*Mayor Bloomberg announced that the city's Economic Development Corporation would create a new not-for-profit desk to support nonprofit and cultural organizations. The mayor noted in his remarks that this new desk "will be the place where nonprofit arts organizations will be able to get help on everything from locating appropriate real estate to finding financing through a new, pooled bond program at EDC" and will also "aggressively pitch New York City around the world as the nations art and cultural capital."

* Shaun Donovan, the commissioner of the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development, said that his agency will be setting up a $100 million fund to help artists buy the spaces where they live and work.

Press coverage of the Creative New York Conference:

New York City Is Establishing an Office to Support Arts Groups, New York Times, April 5, 2006, by Sewell Chan

Mike Pushes Nonprofits; City Needs Creative Interests, Mayor Sez, New York Daily News, April 5, 2006, by Greg Wilson

Creative Thinking To Keep Arts Industry In New York, New York 1, April 5, 2006, by Farnoosh Torabi

Mayor Gathers Group To Discuss How To Keep City at Vanguard of Cultural World, New York Sun, April 5, 2006, by Liz Peek

A Creative Process; Gothamites Train Eyes on Brain Drain, Variety, April 5, 2006, by Steven Zeitchik

Panel Looks to Halt City's Creative Drain, Metro New York, April 5, 2006, by Amy Zimmer

City Works to Keep "Cultural Capital" Title, WNYC Radio, April 6, 2006, by Andrea Bernstein

Innovation, NYC Style, Crain's New York Business, April 10, 2006, by Elizabeth MacBride

The conference was organized as a follow up to Creative New York, a study by the Center for an Urban Future and Mt. Auburn Associates that was released in December 2005. The study shows that there are more than 11,000 businesses and nonprofits, and over 300,000 workers, in the nine industries that make up the city's "creative core," but that there are growing challenges to the city's pre-eminence as a creative center.

Leadership support for the Creative New York conference was provided by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. The Center's December 2005 Creative New York report was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Deutsche Bank, New York Community Trust, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Independence Community Foundation and the British Consulate-General. Additional program support was provided by the Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation and the Taconic Foundation.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Addresses New Yorks Creative Community at Creative New York Conference

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Addresses New Yorks Creative Community at Creative New York Conference