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A crowd of 100 assembled at the Old American Can Factory to join us and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) for a different kind of Superfund conversation..
 
Seema Agnani’s work with South Asian immigrants on housing needs charts a course for legalizing basement apartments to create affordable housing.
 
Glen Cummings shares the process of creating the Predatory Equity Survival Guide.
         
Communication designer Sidney Blank shares the story behind STACKD, a new social networking site that helps people in Manhattan office buildings get in touch – for business or beers.
 
Lisa Chamberlain explores the Forum for Urban Design's interdisciplinary design competition that aims to make Red Hook the most bicycle-friendly neighborhood in New York City.
 
Nicole Salazar talks to Adam Friedman, former executive director of NYIRN, about the importance of the manufacturing industry in New York.
         
Writer and designer James Reeves reflects on his outdoor living room in New York from his newly adopted home of Helsinki.
 
When the League said goodbye to the Urban Center, Madison Avenue reminded us that innovative infrastructure often lies just outside your doorstep.
 
David Benjamin, Deborah Berke, Hugh Hardy, Gregg Pasquarelli, Marilyn Jordan Taylor, and Claire Weisz answer the question: “What does New York City need to do to sustain itself...
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The Groundbreaking to Bury the Soul of Brooklyn

To coincide with this afternoon's groundbreaking ceremony for Atlantic Yards, opponents to the project held their own event: the Groundbreaking to Bury the Soul of Brooklyn. Held outside Freddy's Bar, which lies in the project's footprint and has been a focal point for Atlantic Yards protests, members of Develop Don't Destroy

The Blizzard of 1888 – and what it means for mass transit

122 years ago today, on March 11th 1888, it started snowing. When the snows finally came to a stop three days later, over forty inches were reported in New York and New Jersey and some snowdrifts grew as high as 50 feet. All major cities between Washington and Montreal were completely isolated from each other…

The Omnibus Roundup – Buses, Scarano, earthquake innovations, Yards revisited and Landscapes of Quarantine

New York city is following in the footsteps of Bogotá, Colombia and Curitiba, where some of the busiest city streets now have dedicated bus lanes. DOT announced a new plan this week to make 34th Street the home of New York City's first dedicated bus lanes. The proposal would create…

Call for Proposals: reNEWable Times Square

Calling all architects, designers and artists! Now that the city has made the Times Square pedestrian plazas permanent, the Department of Transportation is launching a design competition to "refresh" the existing temporary treatments while the longer, separate process begins to design the permanent plazas and undergo a capital street reconstruction project. The…