The pandemic hit Albany “like a bomb,” wrote the New York Times last year. Around 90,000 people live in and around Albany, and seventy percent of them are Black, including Johnson and nearly all of her clients.
“You can imagine every Black family either knows somebody or is someone affected by COVID-19,” Johnson told me in a May 2020 interview. “Three or four generations of a family may live in one house, so you’re seeing families with multiple cases across generations at one time. It has been the craziest thing, so much grief, so much pain, but people are persevering with their businesses because they want to provide a life for their families.”
Learn about GU’s Master’s in Urban & Regional Planning. How can Arlington and other cities better handle missing middle housing challenges? How federal funding can help make energy grids and water infrastructure in cities more resilient and secure, and more in this week’s virtual urbanist events.
A rendering of a protected bike lane along 15th Street NW. Image from DDOT.
As part of the District’s Vision Zero goals, 20 miles of protected bike lanes are planned to be added to DC by 2022. One of those projects is a two-way protected bike lane between Pennsylvania Avenue NW and East Basin Drive SW.
The District Department of Transportation and the National Park Service are holding a public meeting to offer updates on the extension of the 15th Street NW Cycletrack, this Wednesday from 5:30 pm to 7 pm.
Share your thoughts about the preliminary design process. Click here for more information about the project and the meeting.
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Few know Birmingham its streets, its schools, its churches as well as Cornell Wesley, the recently named director of the city’s Department of Innovation and Economic Opportunity (IEO).
Wesley, the youngest of three children, grew up in the North Titusville community and attended Glen Iris Elementary School where he was part of the first class to be bused in Center Street Middle School, and A. H. Parker High School. As a teen he was called to preach and delivered his first trial sermon at his home church, South Elyton Baptist Church, before leaving his hometown for Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.
Lorain Port and Finance Authority Executive Director Tom Brown looks up at the crooked flagpole at Victory Park, the city s monument and tribute to the fallen fighters of World War I. The Port took over Victory Park and in 2019 began leading a makeover of the green space and monument. The novel coronavirus force cancelation of some signature Port events, including Rockin on the River concerts. But improvements at Victory Park rank among the accomplishments of 2020, Brown said.
Morning Journal file photo