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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… 
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 I did this, but I am glad that I did. The event…
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.
In a disaster-prone world, to say that crises present opportunities has become a morbid cliché. Yet, nonetheless, the impulse to help requires context, planning and understanding. In the past few weeks, we’ve heard how the low-density sprawl that encourages a high reliance on oil has led to the Deepwater Horizon Oil
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UPDATE 6.9.10: Check out the complete Postópolis! schedule and watch a livestream of the event on both Domus and postopolis.org.
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It should come as no surprise that I love to talk (some might say, can’t shut up) about cities — problems…
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For the past few days, something has been missing from the urban landscape of London. A quick scan of the city’s streets – red busses, black cabs – shows nothing amiss. Beneath…
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Join us on a nostalgia trip: check out three 1985 TV commercials that suggest a different relationship between banks and the neighborhoods of New York than the one we see today. |
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…
Since the Omnibus crew decamped from our previous digs on the banks of the Gowanus Canal this past fall, we’ve tried to hold ourselves back from reblogging every time its tortuous path to cleanup makes the news. But today that path became a little clearer – the Canal has been designated a Federal Superfund site. According the New York Times,
As Steven Dale’s piece “Off the Road and Into the Skies” shows us, aerial gondolas offer more than meets the eye. And his local case study, the Roosevelt Island Tramway, is not just for tourists. But this spring it will be closed for maintenence – so take a field trip before it’s too…
