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The city’s Chinese population reached 397,000 in 2023, a 5% increase from 2013, while the Dominican population declined 6% to 390,000 over the same period, according to The Newest New Yorkers report. The two groups each make up 12.8% and 12.6% of the city’s 3.1 million immigrant population.

At the CUNY-wide Baruch CEO Pitch Competition—co-hosted by the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship and the Baruch Collegiate Entrepreneurs—21 students and alumni competed on campus, presenting their business plans before judges and industry professionals who provided feedback. They advanced from simultaneous semifinal rounds to the main stage, where three winners took home the top … Read more

Vanessa Botelho, a CUNY Newmark J-School professor, will use the prestigious fellowship to research the book she began as a Graduate Center master’s student.

In April, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released the Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan and an inaugural True Cost of Living Measure, recognizing that more-nuanced, local data are critical to effectively address the affordability crisis. A related Urban Institute report found 63 percent of Asian American (AA) and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) New Yorkers don’t … Read more

The end of April marks the conclusion of National Fair Housing Month, in recognition of the passage of the Fair Housing Act in April 1968. But today, the legacy of housing policies and the ongoing work required to build and sustain prosperous, thriving communities remains. Most American families lack the resources to truly afford to live securely in their … Read more