You know the one I mean. He may organize community meetings to protest the latest high-rise proposal or solicit your support for the new jobs and new housing he’s bringing to the neighborhood. She might sign for your packages in the bodega or run your community board with compassion and vigor. Maybe he sells old bicycles from his stoop, or falafel from his pushcart or maybe he’s you. The Omnibus is always on the lookout for non-institutional and under-represented forms of expertise on the built environment – its past, present and future. So get back to us with tales of who you think knows your patch of the city best, and why. Once we have some good leads, we’re going to go out and try to talk to these authorities on camera, to ask about neighborhood change, about the role of design in identifying or delivering that change, and about priorities looking forward.

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