Summer in the city

Published: June 5, 2014, 10:05 a.m.

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June 4, 2014 \\u2014 Joseph Viteritti, a professor of public policy in the department of urban affairs and policy at Hunter College in New York City, is the editor of a new collection of essays entitled, \\u201cSummer in the City: John Lindsay, New York, and the American Dream.\\u201d Viteritti and the volume\\u2019s other authors reassess Lindsay\\u2019s mayorship and the city he governed from 1966 to 1973. Lindsay\\u2019s approach to issues of poverty, racial discrimination, economic development, and other issues of the day, Viteritti says, are worth remembering even if \\u2014 or perhaps especially because \\u2014 so many things about New York have changed in the 40 years since he left office.

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