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Organization: Gotham Philosophical Society, Inc.

Project Name: Rethinking the City

Project ID: 167

Neighborhood/Communities that the project will serve: CB Queens 12 (Jamaica/ St. Albans), CB Bronx 06 (East Tremont), CB Manhattan 12 (Washington Heights), CB Brooklyn 13 (Coney Island)

Borough: Citywide

Project Description: What kind of city will our young people inherit? What happens in 2021 will have a lot do with the answers to those questions. As you read this, the city has begun what may be the most important and consequential election season in its history. Numerous candidates are running in hopes of leading the city out of the current pandemic and into what they claim will be a better and brighter future. 

Our civics-focused project is designed to give young New Yorkers a voice. But not just a voice that can be heard but a voice that can be listened to. To do that, participants will use the policy platforms of actual candidates for mayor as the starting points for a critical, philosophical analysis of the issues facing the city and the solutions being proposed. During their workshops, participants will be encouraged to rethink the city from the underground up. From economics to education, housing to healthcare, and transportation to trash removal, participants will collaboratively develop their own vision of what the city could eventually become and how they will figure in it. This ‘Young People’s Platform” will then be presented to the candidates themselves ahead of the June 22nd primaries.