Parenting in the City
City Journal Audio
Manhattan Institute
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Karol Markowicz joins Kay Hymowitz to discuss raising young children in New York City.
"Raising a family in the city is just too hard," concluded The Atlantic's Derek Thompson last summer. But in Park Slope, one of New York's most desirable neighborhoods, thousands of families thrive. Still, parents must navigate a host of challenges unique to urban life, including pricey housing, complex schooling options, and sometimes-unfriendly public spaces.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. I'm Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. |
| 0:04.8 | Coming up on the show today, we have a special discussion for our listeners. |
| 0:08.9 | My colleague and longtime City Journal contributor Kay Heimowitz will interview Carol Markowitz. |
| 0:15.1 | She's a columnist for the New York Post about some of the risks and rewards of raising a family in the city. As they'll note in the |
| 0:22.9 | interview, Carol and Kay both live in Park Slope, the quintessential family-friendly neighborhood |
| 0:28.8 | of Brooklyn, where they both raised, or in Carol's case, are still raising young children. |
| 0:34.5 | It's a topic we've written about in the past at City Journal, and the conversation will be of interest to any urban parents out there or parents' children. It's a topic we've written about in the past at City Journal, and the conversation |
| 0:38.2 | will be of interest to any urban parents out there or parents generally. It's a terrific |
| 0:42.9 | interview, and I know you'll enjoy it. A couple of quick announcements before we get started. |
| 0:48.2 | First, our parent organization, the Manhattan Institute, is seeking nominations for its annual |
| 0:53.1 | Civil Society Awards. |
| 0:55.6 | If you're a longtime listener to the podcast, you've probably heard us talking about this before. |
| 1:01.0 | It's our way of celebrating the hard work of effective non-profit organizations across the country. |
| 1:06.5 | This upcoming fall, four winners will each receive $25,000 for their efforts to solve our most pressing social challenges. |
| 1:16.2 | If you know of an exceptional non-profit leader, who, with the help of volunteers and philanthropic donors, is strengthening their community, |
| 1:25.0 | visit www.com and submit a nomination for them. That's www.com. |
| 1:33.6 | That's www.com. Finally, our listeners will want to make sure they keep an eye out for new essays |
| 1:40.6 | from City Journal's Winter 2020 issue. Last week, we released online Park McDougall's |
| 1:48.0 | terrific essay on the intra-Catholic debate about liberalism and democracy, which has garnered a lot |
| 1:54.5 | of attention, and E.J. McMahon on the growing regional divide in New York State's economy, an essay which was adapted in the New York Post. |
| 2:04.4 | You can see the full lineup from the new issue on our website, www.city-jernel.org. |
| 2:11.3 | That's it for the introduction. |
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