Marcella Traina was 13 years old when she first encountered a problem with the 12th Street and Avenue C intersection. As she crossed the street, she had to run away from a passing car, just barely escaping injury.
Ever since that moment, Traina, a junior public policy major at Rutgers University, has worked to push the City of Bayonne to install a traffic light at the intersection, including a petition process that began in February 2017, a city press release said.
Bloustein School Master of City and Regional Planning students Miranda Alperstein (MCRP '25) and Saul Ruddick-Schulman (MCRP '25) were recently selected as 2024-25 Morgan Stanley Community Development Graduate Fellows. Now in its 13th year, each of this year's nine...
What Elected Officials and CAOs Need to Know about Technology Fitness (Part 18) In this latest installment of Tech Fitness for Local Elected Officials and Administrators, Marc Pfeiffer explains that there is no one-size-fits-all set of controls for every technology...
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews Abstract Local review platforms like Yelp and Google Maps use systems combining automated and human judgment to delineate the limits of acceptable speech, allowing some reviews to...
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) / Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) September 11th Memorial Program for Regional Transportation Planning selection committee has selected Vivek Dsouza, MCRP '25 for participation in a...
National Academies Releases New Report on the Public Health Implications of Changes in Cannabis Policy Over the past several decades, more than half of all U.S. states have legalized cannabis for adult and/or medical use, but it remains illegal at the federal level....
Presented by Professor Michael Smart
The Ruth and Alvin Rockoff Annual Lecture Join a discussion between Miriam Herschlag, opinion and blogs editor for The Times of Israel, and Nancy Sinkoff, the Bildner Center’s academic director, […]
Join Bloustein alumni from urban planning, public policy, informatics, and health administration for a workshop on networking best practices, followed by open networking with Bloustein alumni, undergraduate and graduate students. […]