Thanks to all of the Omnibus devotees who came out to share the love, our BlockParty last week was a fun and successful evening. We started the night with a reception and silent auction at Old Saint Patrick’s Youth Center, …

After a two week hiatus, we’re back to wish you a happy new year — and to toast the beginning of the fourth year of Urban Omnibus!

This week, the massive Flea Market that has operated in the north parking lot of the Aqueduct Racetrack for the past thirty years closed for the season, with considerable doubt as to whether or where it will re-open. Over decades, …

Yesterday, a group of urbanists, technologists, designers and urban planners gathered at the offices of the Rockefeller Foundation to discuss the future of the crowdsourced city. Four presentations focused on forecasting the benefits, tensions and pitfalls of mining the data …

Last week Hester Street Collaborative (HSC) — a nonprofit that works at the intersection of design/build, education and advocacy from its home base in the Lower East Side and Manhattan’s Chinatown — unveiled a temporary public art installation on the Allen Street Pedestrian Malls. This “mall-teration” builds upon years of advocacy and visioning HSC has undertaken with the residents of the Allen and Pike Street corridor in an effort…

Tuesday morning, I attended the final vote of the Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing on whether or not to confer historic protection to 45-47 Park Place in Lower Manhattan. The commission voted unanimously (9-0) against protecting the site. For this site, …

I recently spent the better part of five days sitting on a cinderblock in the courtyard of Museo Experimental el Eco, listening to various creative people, mostly from Mexico, talk about their work. I am not entirely certain why …

A recap of the second of the League’s Conversations on New York, with Dan Doctoroff, former NYC Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, and Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker.