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Known for world-class research, RPA also engages communities, businesses, elected officials, and the media each day to advance our ideas. Read our latest testimonies, statements, media hits, and blog posts.

4186 posts

Sep 21 2016

Testimony on the Greater East Midtown Rezoning

Testimony
Sep 21 2016

The Case for Managed Retreat from Flood Zones

by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

RPA Lab
Sep 20 2016

Building a Sustainable Future for Long Island

by Tom Wright

Testimony
Sep 20 2016

Village Voice
How the West Side Was Won: Will Port Authority Truce Yield a Better Bus Terminal?

In the Media
Sep 20 2016

What We’re Reading: Rising Incomes for Lower & Middle Classes in 2015

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Sep 19 2016

Politico New York
Talk of 7 Train to Secaucus Resurfaces in Port Authority Study

In the Media
Sep 17 2016

New York Daily News
Shutdown of L Train to Bring Traffic Changes to NYC Drivers

In the Media
Sep 15 2016

What If We All Enjoyed A Fair Chance to Be Healthy?

by Ben Oldenburg

RPA Lab
Sep 14 2016

What Does the NY Region Need?

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Sep 13 2016

Newsday
Americans Got Raises Last Year for First Time Since 2007

In the Media
Sep 13 2016

What We’re Reading: Bike Share Record

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Sep 10 2016

Revisiting the Post-9/11 Vision for Lower Manhattan

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Sep 07 2016

Chicago Tribune
De Blasio Ferry Plan Reaches Out to Gentrifying Brooklyn, Queens

In the Media
Sep 07 2016

What the BQX Can Learn From Streetcars in Other Cities

by Tom Wright

RPA Lab
Sep 06 2016

Long Island Press
Long Islanders Should Embrace Walkable Downtown Developments Near LIRR Stations

In the Media
Sep 06 2016

What We’re Reading: Veto for NJ Healthy Foods Bill; Planning Transportation for Tri-State Area; Pitfalls of FEMA Flood Maps

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Sep 06 2016

Panel: Building Affordable Housing on NYCHA Land

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Sep 01 2016

TBT: Robert Moses’s Brooklyn-Battery Bridge

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 31 2016

Newsweek
Uber: Let Technology and Bus Rapid Transit Help Solve the L Train Dilemma

In the Media
Aug 30 2016

What We’re Reading: Faster Amtrak Trains; Polluted Ronkonkoma Lake; Record-Level NYC Homelessness

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 30 2016

NYC Job Growth Further Proof of Economic Transformation

by Christopher Jones

RPA Lab
Aug 29 2016

Can Microunits Help Alleviate the Housing Shortage?

by Moses Gates

RPA Lab
Aug 24 2016

Calling All Urban Planning Poets

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 23 2016

Wall Street Journal
Interim Fixes Coming as La Guardia’s Terminal B Is Rebuilt

In the Media
Aug 23 2016

What We’re Reading: Rio’s Transit Riders May Be the Real Winners of the 2016 Olympics

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 22 2016

Despite Improvements, Low-level Air Pollution Continues to Damage Health in the Region

by Dustin Fry

RPA Lab
Aug 18 2016

More Than 1.8 Million Homes at Risk of Permanent Flooding

by Robert Freudenberg

RPA Lab
Aug 17 2016

The Atlantic
An Unsteady Future for New England’s Suburbs

In the Media
Aug 16 2016

From Tangier Island to Long Island: How Will Coastal Communities Adapt to Sea Level Rise?

by Ellis Calvin

RPA Lab
Aug 11 2016

Curbed NY
East Harlem’s Affordable Housing Stock May Be In Jeopardy

In the Media
Aug 11 2016

TBT: What to Do About Crowding in NYC, Circa 1932

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 10 2016

Mapping the Region’s Vanishing Wetlands

by Sarabrent McCoy

RPA Lab
Aug 10 2016

Let’s Not Waste a Golden Opportunity to Transform the L

by Richard Barone

RPA Lab
Aug 09 2016

The Verge
Train to Nowhere

In the Media
Aug 09 2016

What We’re Reading: NYC’s Beaches, Parks and Pools Attract Record Crowds

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 08 2016

Architects Newspaper
East Harlem Set to Lose 25 Percent of Affordable Housing Stock, Regional Plan Association Says

In the Media
Aug 08 2016

AM New York
MTA Bus That Will Do Everything, Except Go Faster

In the Media
Aug 08 2016

Data Geek: Comparing the Smaller Cities in the Hudson Valley

by Kate Slevin

RPA Lab
Aug 05 2016

Report: One-Fourth of East Harlem Units Could Lose Affordability Restrictions by 2040

by Pierina Ana Sanchez

RPA Lab
Aug 04 2016

Triboro and Freight Can Be Friends

by Richard Barone

RPA Lab
Aug 03 2016

Urban Planning, in Verse

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 02 2016

What We’re Reading: Suburbs Like New Rochelle Betting Future on Looking More Like Cities

by Claire Mardian

RPA Lab
Aug 01 2016

Serpas: Segregation, and Its Solutions, Are Best Understood Regionally

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Jul 31 2016

AM New York
‘Brand New Subway’ Game Lets You Rebuild MTA Subway System From Scratch

In the Media
Jul 31 2016

New York Times
Short Trains. Frequent Disruptions. Once Mocked, the G Train Is Now Cool

In the Media
Jul 31 2016

City Limits
For Low-Income People of Color in NYC, Segregation Is a Regional Problem

In the Media
Jul 31 2016

City Limits
De Blasio Ferry Could Face Cost Challenges but Offer New Resiliency

In the Media
Jul 29 2016

Gothamist
Mayor De Blasio Open to Closing 14th Street During L Train Shutdown

In the Media
Jul 28 2016

Politico New York
De Blasio Sticks to Posture of L-Train Incredulity

In the Media
Jul 28 2016

Celebrating 100 Years of Zoning

by Ann Regan

RPA Lab