{"title": "Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect & Serve Themselves", "start": "2026-11-03T17:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T19:00:00-05:00", "place": "John Jay College of Criminal Justice", "address": "524 West 59th Street, L.64.00 New Building, New York, NY 10019", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-blue-power-tickets-2002743928001?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": [], "description": "A book talk on \"Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect & Serve Themselves,\" a history of how American police unions and a rank-and-file movement won power above public oversight. Historian Stuart Schrader, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, narrates how officers organized from the 1960s onward to gain control over working conditions, impunity, and budgets. He is joined by discussant Dr. David Brotherton, a professor of sociology at John Jay College. 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It features Janette Sadik-Khan of Bloomberg Associates, former NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner, and special musical guest Pondless, the urbanist synth-pop sensation. The event is organized by Urban Policy & Planning at Hunter College and is open to everyone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-war-on-cars-live-66611/", "official_url": "https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/event/the-war-on-cars-live/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3abd4a94b11ce980d9081b4599aaf308e62dca7808dab1d2498eb896e2dfa4c4-600.webp"}, {"title": "Author Talk: A Right to Housing? by Samuel Stein", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Van Alen Institute", "address": "Bond Street 303, 11231", "price": "Free with RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/housing"], "description": "A book talk and conversation on the urgent question of housing as a right, held at Van Alen Institute in Gowanus. Author Samuel Stein introduces his new book 'A Right to Housing?' and its untraditional structure with a short reading. He is then joined by Andrew Brown, policy expert at Van Alen Institute, for a discussion ranging from the politics of housing policy to what a genuine right to housing could look like in practice. 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The guest is Brennan Peacore-Brink, Project Coordinator for Faith-Based Partnerships in the Mayor's Office of Mass Engagement, whose work sits at the crossroads of faith communities and municipal government. The conversation explores the intersection of public policy and public theology, examining how theological commitments shape, and are shaped by, civic engagement. Participants are invited into a dialogue designed to spark reflection, deepen understanding, and inspire action in the public square.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-the-public-square-roundtable-discussions-with-brennan-pea-57272/", "official_url": "https://utsnyc.edu/blog/event/in-the-public-square-roundtable-discussions-with-brennan-peacore-brink/?instance_id=4286", "image": "https://noky.io/images/618747f3b3083a29b668297d84a8ddb9244b1cb937af6fe13433278b7c42c00c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Beryl Satter, Prof. of History, Rutgers University – “Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods”", "start": "2026-11-09T16:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-09T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "College of Staten Island", "address": "Victory Boulevard 2800, 10314 Staten Island", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/civil-rights-movement"], "description": "A talk titled “Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods.” Beryl Satter, Professor of History Emerita at Rutgers University, will discuss her new book, Cash on the Block, published by Harvard University Press (2026); she is also the author of Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America, which won several prestigious awards. The CLUE event is co-sponsored by the CSI Student Pre-Law Club, the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs, the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies, and the Department of Sociology/Anthropology. 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NABJ also organizes pre-orders of the book, picked up at the event, supporting the small black book business “Tuma’s Books.”", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-talk-with-journalist-and-author-trymaine-lee-52247/", "official_url": "https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/book-talk-with-journalist-and-author-trymaine-lee/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Art + Furniture: A Conversation with Dennis Miller", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "New York School of Interior Design", "address": "East 70th Street 170, 10021", "price": "", "price_from": "17.35", "price_to": "17.35", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-furniture-a-conversation-with-dennis-miller-tickets-2002836723555?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design/furniture-design"], "description": "An evening conversation on the American furniture movement, held at the New York School of Interior Design. Curators Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht will interview Dennis Miller, author of the book Art + Furniture: An Oral History of the American Furniture Movement, published by Abbeville Press. The book grew out of an oral history project at the school's archives and tells the movement's story through its protagonists' words, with contemporary and archival photography. 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Shaw will cover the first activists and organizations of the 19th and early 20th Centuries, activism through the Depression and World War Two, and the rise of the modern disability rights movement from the 1960s to today. He is a Vice President of the 504 Democratic Club, a board member of the Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled, and curated the first museum exhibit on the movement at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Attendees can attend in person or RSVP to receive a Zoom link.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/150-years-of-disability-activism-51669/", "official_url": "https://bsec.org/events/disability_activism/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a0bccb15548c46fe393107a6e05d181cf275220ab2c8043018d8ba3cda2b0cd6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Photobook Talk: Andrew Lichtenstein — This Short Life", "start": "2026-11-06T18:45:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Bronx Documentary Center", "address": "Courtlandt Avenue 614", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "society/activism"], "description": "The Bronx Documentary Center hosts a photobook talk in which documentary photographer Andrew Lichtenstein presents his book This Short Life. The book combines photographs with oral histories to profile 12 Americans working toward a more just and equitable society during a period of political and social upheaval, exploring activism, community and imagined futures. Lichtenstein's third book in a trilogy about America, it shares stories of struggle, sacrifice and redemption through intimate portraits and first-person testimony. The talk covers the people and stories in the book and his collaborative approach, and is followed by an audience Q&A, with books available for purchase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/photobook-talk-andrew-lichtenstein-this-short-life-51499/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7669a18a43b98154fe0217ca8bed7028d52841c3d14c209f72c2f04e696c6ac6-2000.webp"}]}