Julia Vitullo-Martin

Publications

• Mosque Backers, Answer these Questions, USA Today, 10-Aug-2010
  
• Big-Footed by the EPA in Brooklyn, Wall Street Journal, 24-July-2010
• Community Benefit Agreement will Cripple Waterfront, Buffalo News, 16-July-2010
  
• Saving Coney Island, New York Post, 4-July-10
• Bricks and Mortals, Wall Street Journal, 18-May-2010
• How Geeks Get Us Around Town, Wall Street Journal, 7-May-2010
  
• Confronting the Mire on 34th Street:  The Long Run, New York Times Room for Debate, 26-Apr-10
• Has Landmarking in New York Gone Too Far?, New York Post, 25-Apr-10
• The "Authentic" City Wrecking Ball, Wall Street Journal, 5-Mar-10
  
• Tribeca's Civil War Over PS 234, New York Post, 13-Jan-10
• Naked City, New York Post, 10-Jan-10
• Time for Town Halls, New York Post, 6-Jan-10
• Political Trends for 2010:  Development Back on Track?, New York Post, 3-Jan-10
  
• Columbia Gets a Lesson in Property Rights, Wall Street Journal, 2-Jan-10
  
• After Kingsbridge, A Dangerous Backslide for the Bronx, New York Daily News, 24-Dec-09
  
• What the Late Middle Ages Wrought, Wall Street Journal, 19-Dec-09
• What Oprah's Departure Means for the Windy City, Wall Street Journal, 26-Nov-09
• NYC's Recipe for Going Bust, New York Post, 5-Nov-09
• Don't "Superfund" the Gowanus, New York Post, 22-Sept-09
• Chicago, City Without Limits, Wall Street Journal, 20-June-09


• Sidewalks,
  New York Post, 24-May-09


• Public-Housing
  Hope, New York Post, 18-May-09


• Lessons
  In Public Housing, Forbes.com, 6-May-09
• The Bronx Is Up, Newsletter, Feb-09
  


• Bronx
  Cheer, New York Post, 22-Feb-09


• Gimme
  Shelter, New York Post, 22-Feb-09 (Review of Gimme
  Shelter by Mary Elizabeth Williams)


• How
  a City Lost Its Soul, The Wall Street Journal, 1-Feb-09
  (Review of Getting Ghost by Luke Bergmann)

2008:

• Blight by Government, Newsletter, Dec-08
  


• Spray
  It Loud!, New York Post, 28-Dec-08 (Review of Graffiti
  Lives by Gregory J. Snyder)


• Looking
  Ahead to the New Year, Gotham Gazette Symposium, 22-Dec-08


• MTA
  asks for shared sacrifice--but squanders its assets,
  New York Daily News, 10-Dec-08


• Big
  & Beautiful For Hell's Kitchen, New York Post, 3-Dec-08
• A Step Toward Market-Rate Housing for NYCHA, Newsletter, Nov-08
  


• New
  York on the Block, New York Post, 29-Nov-08


• A Congregation Fights for the Right to Raze Its
  Ugly Church, Wall Street Journal, 21-Nov-08


• NYC's
  Housing Hope, New York Post, 19-Nov-08
• Rezoning the Lower East Side, Newsletter, Oct-08
  


• Brooklyn's
  Retail Boom, Gotham Gazette, 14-Oct-08


• New
  York For Sale, New York Post, 12-Oct-08


• Strong
  housing stock, picturesque waterfront help Hudson Valley's Newburgh,
  New York Daily News, 10-Oct-08
• Yes!  Redevelop Willets Point, Newsletter, Sept-08
  


• A
  Change For A Cleaner Queens, New York Post, 24-Sept-08


• Behind
  The Latest Harlem Renaissance, New York Post, 7-Sept-08


• NYC
  Public Housing in Crisis, New York Daily News, 21-Aug-08


• He
  Changed The World (Everyone Says So), New York Post, 17-Aug-08


• East
  Side Overload, New York Post, 11-Aug-08


• Rescuing
  Rockaway, New York Post, 2-July-08
• Rezone the Rockaways--They've Waited Long Enough, Newsletter, June-08
  


• Revenge
  Of The Bad Old Days, New York Post, 29-June-08 (This
  article also appeared on RealClearPolitics.com, 29-June-08)


• "Home
  Girl," New York Post, 29-June-08


• In
  the Heights: Vitality and Diversity at Manhattan's Tip, Gotham
  Gazette, 23-June-08


• Urbanism
  II: Remaking Harlem, Monocle, July/Aug-08


• 'Preservation'
  Poppycock, New York Post, 20-June-08


• Song
  of Brooklyn, New York Post, 1-June-08
• Expanding a Hospital in Historic Territory, Newsletter, May-08
  


• Save
  a 'Duck,' Damn a Hospital, New York Post, 22-May-08


• To
  Save Moynihan Station, New York Post, 1-Apr-08
• Redeveloping Public Housing, Newsletter, Mar-08
  


• Urban
  Decay, Wall Street Journal, 14-Mar-08


• Dooming
  Our Cities, New York Post, 5-Mar-08


• GENTRIFEARCATION,
  New York Post, 2-Mar-08
• 125th Street:  Rezoning an Icon, Newsletter, Feb-08
• Mayor Bloomberg:  Right on Neighborhoods, Right on Immigration, Jan-08
  


• 125th
  Street: Yes, Rezone, New York Post, 31-Jan-08


• Ahead
  of the Curve, New York Post, 6-Jan-08


• Due
  To Ex-spire, New York Post, 6-Jan-08

2007:

• A Town Without Churches?, Newsletter, Dec-07
  
• The
  Biggest Mies Collection, Wall Street Journal, 22-Dec-07


• Hard-Core
  Homeless, New York Post, 6-Dec-07
• Thinking BIG for New York City, Newsletter, Oct/Nov-07
  


• New
  York Gritty, New York Post, 2-Dec-07


• Newburgh's
  Newcomers, Wall Street Journal, 17-Nov-07


• A
  Tale of Two Cities, New York Post, 4-Nov-07


• Royal
  'Hood, New York Post, 28-Oct-07


• When
  Skid Row Goes Citywide, New York Post, 23-Oct-07


• Dismissed
  by Jane Jacobs, Harlem Reinventing Itself as a Mixed--Use
  Haven, New York Sun, 18-Oct-07


• On
  the Boardwalk, Wall Street Journal, 12-Oct-07


• New
  York's Lost Italian Heritage, New York Post, 8-Oct-07
• Four Jane Jacobs Ideas that Should Have Made a Difference, Newsletter, Sept-07
  


• Jane
  Jacobs's New York, New York Sun, 27-Sept-07


• Linking
  a City Housing Authority's Money Woes and a Jacobs Complaint,
  New York Sun, 13-Sept-07


• West
  Village Houses a Monument to a 1960s Development Battle,
  New York Sun, 30-Aug-07


• Church
  Cleanup, New York Post, 16-Aug-07


• Homeless
  Hell, New York Post, 13-Aug-07
• Facing its Past, Newark Gets Ready for its Future, Newsletter, July-07
  


• Newark:
  From Betrayal to Hope, New York Post, 25-July-07


• The
  Day the Music Died, Wall Street Journal, 20-July-07


• Banking
  On Downtown, New York Post, 28-June-07


• Brooklyn
  Neighborhood Resists Eminent Domain, New York Sun, 7-June-07


• Turning
  a Profit for the Projects, New York Post, 7-June-07
• The Mayor is Right:  Rezone Jamaica, Newsletter, May-07
  


• A
  Solution to Crawling City Traffic? Not So Fast, New York
  Times, 20-May-07


• London
  Real Estate Hits the Stratosphere, New York Sun, 10-May-07


• Searching
  for Land--and Finding It, Gotham Gazette, 30-Apr-07


• If
  You Build It, New York Post, 23-Apr-07


• Keeping
  NYC Great, New York Post, 23-Apr-07


• Bushwick
  Buzzing, but Not Quite Ready for Prime Time, New York
  Sun, 19-Apr-07


• Columbia's
  Greed, New York Post, 4-Apr-07
• C'mon, Columbia, Take Eminent Domain Off the Table, Newsletter, Mar-07
  


• Save
  Our Cities, Wall Street Journal, 30-Mar-07


• Columbia
  Expansion Spikes West Harlem Prices, New York Sun, 29-Mar-07


• A
  Once-Troubled Housing Complex Seeks Change, New York Sun, 15-Mar-07


• A
  City's Face is Its Fortune, Cambridge Architecture,
  Winter/Spring-07


• Cross
  Country: Starrett City Blues, Wall Street Journal, 10-Mar-07
• What to Make of Starrett City, Newsletter, Feb-07
  


• The
  Starrett Stink, New York Post, 20-Feb-07
• Keeping New York Competitive, Newsletter, Jan-07
  


• Homeless
  in America, Wall Street Journal, 18-Jan-07

2006:

• A
  Fatal Kindness, New York Post, 22-Dec-06
• 2030
  or Bust: Bloomberg's Challenge to NYC, New York Post, 13-Dec-06
• Will London Beat New York?, Newsletter, Nov-06
  


• A
  Loving Romp Through NYC, New York Post, 19-Nov-06
• Will Philly be the Next Great City?, Newsletter, Oct-06
  


• Yo!
  Philly gets dissed, big-time, Philadelphia Daily News, 25-Oct-06


• Gateway
  Newark, New York Times, 22-Oct-06


• A
  Tale of Several Cities, Wall Street Journal, 20-Oct-06
• Will Newark Finally Come Back?, Newsletter, Sept-06
  


• And
  the Next 'Sixth Borough' Is--Newark, New York Sun, 28-Sept-06


• New
  York Rebounds, Wall Street Journal, 11-Sept-06


• Blight
  on the Block, New York Post, 5-Sept-06
• Bloomberg Confronts Homelessness--And Neighborhoods, Newsletter, Aug-06
  


• Follow
  Atlanta housing model, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 24-Aug-06


• Project
  Vision, The Wall Street Journal, 18-Aug-06


• Housing
  Advocacy Group Works at Being a Good Neighbor, New York
  Sun, 3-Aug-06


• With
  Scenic Homes and a Rich Heritage, Addisleigh Park Is Thriving,
  New York Sun, 20-July-06


• A
  Rehabilitation 20 Years in the Making, Clinton Hill Is Now Soaring, New York Sun, 13-July-06


• The
  Icon on 34th St., New York Post, 9-July-06


• A
  Surprise Lurks at Stuyvesant Town--Luxury Rentals, New
  York Sun, 6-July-06
• Can New York Save Its Houses of Worship?, Newsletter, June-06
  


• Developers
  Partner With Preservationists To Save Houses of Worship,
  New York Sun, 29-June-06


• Ambiguous
  Utopias, Books & Culture, May/June-06
• Eminent Domain:  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Newsletter, May-06
  


• Creative
  Destruction, Wall Street Journal, 27-May-06
• The Queen Mary 2 Sails into the Brooklyn Waterfront Wars, Newsletter, Apr-06
  


• The
  Battle of Red Hook, New York Sun, 13-Apr-06


• Signs
  Point to Rollback of City Program That Spurs Development,
  New York Sun, 6-Apr-06


• The
  Anatomy of New York, New York Post, 2-April-06
• Will They ever Rebuild Ground Zero?, Newsletter, Mar-06
• Market Rate Housing Comes to Harlem, Feb-06
  
  
• Saving Sherman Creek, Jan-06
  
  

Previous Newsletters:

• What Bloomberg Should Do Next:  De-Regulating New York, Dec-05
  
• The City Council Does the Right Thing:  Un-Landmarking in the Boroughs, Nov-05
  
• The Bronx is Up, Oct-05
  
• Thinking about Zoning's Relief Valves, Sept-05
  
• Rethinking Community-Facilities Zoning, July-05
  
• Thinking about Live/Work, June-05
  
• Doing it Right:  Affordable Home Ownership in Harlem, May-05
  
• The False War between Housing and Jobs, Apr-05
  
• Landmarking Modernist Buildings?, Mar-05
  
• Thinking about Eminent Domain, Feb-05
  
• Building Code Blues:  Will New York be Left Behind?, Jan-05
  
• Thinking about the Brooklyn Waterfront, Dec-04
  
• Thinking about Building Codes, Nov-04
  
• Thinking about Desolate Neighborhoods and Environmental Reviews, Oct-04
  
• Thinking about Home-Ownership in Low-Income Neighborhoods, Sept-04
  
• Thinking about Inclusionary Zoning, Aug-04
  
• Rezoning Hunters Point, July-04
  
• Thinking About Markets and the Mayor's Affordable Housing Plans, June-04
  
• Thinking About Ratner's Urban Renewal, May-04
  
• Rezoning West Harlem:  Good for Harlem, Good for New York, Apr-04
  
• Rezoning Red Hook, Mar-04
  
• Thinking About the City Council's Barriers to Building, Feb-04
  
• The West Side Rethinks Donald Trump's Riverside South, Jan-04
  
• Thinking About Brooklyn Markets, Dec-03
  
• Mayor Bloomberg Rethinks a Misguided Tax, Nov-03
  
• Rethinking Staten Island, Oct-03