Vital City After Hours with Jamie Rubin
Vital City After Hours with Jamie Rubin
Podcast Description
Vital City After Hours with Jamie Rubin will explore the issues facing New York City with an emphasis on the intersection of politics and policy. It is hosted by Jamie Rubin, who has more than three decades of experience working on affordable housing, disaster recovery, major infrastructure projects and clean energy in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Jamie is currently chief investment officer at Aligned Climate Capital and board chair of the New York City Housing Authority. Each episode will feature lively discussions with Vital City authors and others who are working to create a thriving New York City. This show is for anyone who cares about the greatest city in the world and wants to see effective solutions to today’s most challenging problems.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes centered on urban policy, affordable housing, and infrastructure challenges in New York City. Episodes cover specific issues like government procurement inefficiencies and the impact of corruption on urban projects, featuring experts who contribute insights into the complexities of New York's political landscape.
It’s all bigger in New York City: personalities, problems, solutions. Jamie Rubin takes listeners behind the scenes for analysis, insight, and gossip with decision-makers and experts. From his wide-ranging experience on Wall Street, in City Hall, in Albany, and in Washington, D.C., Jamie knows how to ask the right people the toughest questions — on topics from housing to climate change to subway rats – and work with them in real time to identify solutions for NYC and beyond.
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Andrew Rigie was five years old when he started rolling rugelach at his grandfather’s Brooklyn bakery at 4:30 in the morning. Now he runs the New York City Hospitality Alliance, which represents an industry that employs more than a quarter-million people, pays more than $11 billion in wages and generates around $2.8 billion a year in sales tax revenue. In this episode of “After Hours with Jamie Rubin,” Rigie explains why the handful of restaurants you can’t get a table at is a misleading picture of the other 24,000, how Bloomberg’s letter-grade rating system saw Health Department fines spike without a corresponding drop in foodborne illness — and how a $30 minimum wage threatens to turn a busy neighborhood restaurant’s $100,000 profit into a $380,000 loss.
The Real Cost of a $30 Wage: The View From the Restaurant Industry
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