FESTIVAL OF IDEAS FOR THE NEW CITY: THIS WEEKEND!
There’s so much happening this weekend at the Festival of Ideas for the New City! Check out our more in-depth coverage of the event and below, some of the weekend’s highlights:
THE OMNIBUS BOOTH We hope you’ve caught sight of our 50 Ideas for the New City Posters around town…

First up on this week’s roundup: stuff to check out this week. Our October calendars are bursting with a plethora of first-rate events, installations, programs and otherwise worthy additions to your to-do list.

For the advance planners out there, check out the line-ups for another event-packed weekend starting October 8. Next weekend brings both Conflux, a festival devoted to art and technology in the urban environment, and Open House…

A “skyscraper showdown” is in headlines this week, making contentious building projects a recurring theme for the summer. This time we have 15 Penn Plaza vs. the Empire State Building. The City Council has approved plans for a 67-story tower to be built two blocks away from, and just 34 feet shorter than, the iconic Empire…

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Be sure to join us on July 8th for the latest in the Architectural League’s Conversations on New York series of public events. This one features former Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Dan Doctoroff, who set in motion many …

“How come it’s easier to find fresh fruits and vegetables in Brooklyn Heights than in the South Bronx?” To answer this question and others, our friends at the Center for Urban Pedagogy worked with local high school students at New …

On September 24, don’t miss an opportunity to tour Red Lines: Housing Crisis Learning Center with the artist who conceived and designed the exhibit, Damon Rich, and with Queens Museum curator Larissa Harris. The tour, presented by the Architectural League, …

This Thursday, the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is presenting another installment of their excellent People and Buildings series of live talk shows. This one will shed light on the fascinating back-story of the partnership, leadership, reverendship and, er, ‘architectship’ that has, to date,

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..