CUNY Institute for Demographic Research

The following piece, published in CUNY Matters in 2006 by the City University of New York's Office of University Relations, announces the creation of the new CUNY Institute for Demographic Research – an initiative in which Andy played a founding role.

Andy is featured prominently as the kind of scholar the Institute was designed to cultivate and multiply: a demographer whose meticulous analysis of Census data produced real-world insights, from uncovering an Afghan enclave in Flushing to informing civil rights litigation and front-page journalism.

The article captures Andy not only as a researcher but as an institution-builder, committed to ensuring that the data-driven, community-engaged work he had long championed would be carried forward by a new generation of scholars at CUNY.