Your Mayor has labneh for breakfast

A Mayor who spends every evening dining in commercial corridors is conducting informal, high-frequency inspections of the city's primary economic engine: retail hospitality. You learn more about commercial rent distress, service-worker shortages, and neighborhood safety by sitting in a dining room in Queens than you do reading a 40-page memo from the Department of Small Business Services. Photo source: https://unsplash.com/@vinib

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If you run a major global city, you certainly have a few ways to project powerYou can control the police budget, you can alter zoning codes to anger developers, or…

That City’s Grassroots Power, Strategic Media

Mumbai. Photo source: https://unsplash.com/@vishalpanchal96

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To build legislative momentum in fast-growing global cities, political strategists should strip away legacy assumptions developed in traditional political capitals. Attempting to deploy a New York or Washington playbook in…

How YOUR city’s #1 lobbying firm compares

Could they be inviting you to join in and play this board game, to navigate an upcoming political sea change in Your city? Successfully navigated political sea change spanning five mayors and city council speakers over 25 years – and how does your city's #1 lobbying firm compare to the likes of New York’s Brown & Weinraub, PLLC and Kasirer?

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The One Where You DON'T Lose.. just YetSuccessfully navigated political sea change spanning five mayors and city council speakers over 25 years? How does your city's #1 lobbying firm compare…

NYC’s BIDs Vs Your DeepTech Ecosystem

A garbage train under the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge truss span, in the Bronx. These trains take garbage from a Waste Management transfer station a bit further down the line to sites in Western NY like the High Acres Landfill near Fairport. August 2020 Source: https://unsplash.com/@blueshift12

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Scaling the Urban Stack: NYC’s BID History as a Lens for Your DeepTech EcosystemIf you are a deeptech founder and investor in mid-tier US cities, scalability is a metric that…

Location Arbitrage: Woody Allen’s Cities

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Location Arbitrage: How Woody Allen Leveraged European Creative Ecosystems to Reach his 50-Movie GoalThe romantic view of Woody Allen’s career is that he is a wandering artist finding inspiration in…

“Risk” to a business/community “destination”

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What is a Business Improvement District (BID), and how does it reshape the urban commercial landscape?Across major metropolitan areas, including New York City, Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) have emerged as…

Hardly a definitive list of NY State industrial waterfronts

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A definitive, comprehensive list of all industrial waterfronts in New York State ranked precisely by acreage is difficult to produce, as the official classification and acreage data often focus on…