What works in New York
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Evidence snapshot for New York
New York has implemented several evidence-based urban and social programmes. The NYC Plaza Program converted Broadway street space into pedestrian plazas, resulting in 63% fewer motorist and passenger injuries and 35% fewer pedestrian injuries, with 74% community approval. Justice Through Code, run by Columbia University, provided free coding training to formerly incarcerated adults, achieving over 80% job placement within six months for those seeking employment. New York's salary range disclosure laws (Local Law 32 and State Labor Law §194-b) showed that most employers complied by keeping salary ranges tight rather than gaming the system with wide ranges, though enforcement lagged with 30+ open cases and no resolutions as of early 2025.
Drawn from: NYC Plaza Program — Times Square and Broadway Street-to-Plaza Conversions (2009–) · 100 Resilient Cities: Rockefeller's City-to-City Resilience Network — and Its Abrupt Wind-Down · Justice Through Code – Tech Career Pathways for the Formerly Incarcerated · New York's Salary Range Disclosure Law: Tighter Postings, Uneven Enforcement · National Academy for AI Instruction — AFT, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic's $23M Teacher-Training Hub · NYC's Panel for Educational Policy Forces a Public Pause on School AI Expansion · TrackInspect — the MTA and Google Public Sector's AI Pilot for Predictive Subway Track Maintenance · NYU Grossman School of Medicine's Machine-Learning Screener for Medical-School Applications
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Evaluated outcomes +21 pts 100 here · 79 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection +20 pts 67 here · 47 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +18 pts 67 here · 48 average
Achievement / evidence +12 pts 100 here · 88 average
Sustainability (ongoing) +8 pts 87 here · 78 average
Weaknesses
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Equity & inclusion -17 pts 33 here · 50 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -21 pts 17 here · 37 average
Evidence of learning impact -26 pts 0 here · 26 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -28 pts 0 here · 28 average
Governance, certification & transferability -30 pts 33 here · 64 average
Efficiency -33 pts 0 here · 33 average
Evaluation evidence -49 pts 0 here · 49 average
Effectiveness -68 pts 0 here · 68 average
Impact on gender equality -71 pts 0 here · 71 average
Curator validation -73 pts 0 here · 73 average
Demonstrated reach -76 pts 0 here · 76 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -89 pts 0 here · 89 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: New York. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
NYC Plaza Program — Times Square and Broadway Street-to-Plaza Conversions (2009–) · 86
Green Light for Midtown — New York's Test-Then-Build Times Square Pedestrian Plazas · 76
100 Resilient Cities: Rockefeller's City-to-City Resilience Network — and Its Abrupt Wind-Down · 52
Justice Through Code – Tech Career Pathways for the Formerly Incarcerated · 52
New York's Salary Range Disclosure Law: Tighter Postings, Uneven Enforcement · 41
NYC's Panel for Educational Policy Forces a Public Pause on School AI Expansion · 40
TrackInspect — the MTA and Google Public Sector's AI Pilot for Predictive Subway Track Maintenance · 40
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
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- Backed by strong evidence
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 6 other places
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