Alec Appelbaum
Alec Appelbaum writes about how cities can become greener and fairer for the New York Times, the Architect's Newspaper and others. He lives on the Lower East Side.
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Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe shares with Alec Appelbaum some thoughts on several recent and upcoming additions to the city's collection of parks created on unlikely sites.
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New York City's plan to close Times Square to vehicles looks like a triumph. The chaise-lounges [or chaises-longues, depending on whom you ask - Ed.] the city dropped at the Crossroads of the World on May 24th have stayed popular throughout the week, like day-glo brigadiers in a…
05 28 09 • by Alec Appelbaum • atlantic yards, broadway, manhattan, move, opinion, planning, public space, street, transit
Like most of my colleagues, I tip my hat to Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council for devising a plan to make landlords retrofit older buildings. And like the cleantech advocates who stood beside me on a Rockefeller Center terrace to hear the mayor outline…
One night recently I took my three-year-old daughter to Cypress Hills, Brooklyn for a Dept. of Ed. hearing in a stifling basement with autopsy-grade lighting, and it got me thinking about how we urban-design writers work.
The nonprofit where my wife works had a stake in the hearing, and I'd wanted our daughter to sense the…
