Gretchen Hildebran is a filmmaker with a passion for social justice, often distilling the effects of public policy through the lens of human experience. Her documentaries include the internationally screened “Carve” (2003), “Worth Saving” (2004), which was presented in HBO’s Frame by Frame documentary showcase, and “Out in the Heartland” (2005), the story of gay…

A FERRY FEASIBLE PROPOSAL?
The Bloomberg Administration continues to make WAVES (Waterfront Vision and Enhancement Strategy) along the city’s waterfront with a ferry service to open later this year. Boats will stop in Greenpoint, Dumbo, downtown Brooklyn and East 34th Street with a potential to expand and connect more remote sites around the city like JFK, La Guardia, Bay Ridge, Coney Island, Hunt’s Point, Soundview and City Island. In hope that…

Contemplations of New York City’s past, present and future are everywhere this spring. The League’s new exhibition The City We Imagined/The City We Made, now in its second week at 250 Hudson St., is an opportunity to reflect…

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 as 50…

Every building, indeed every project of urban or landscape design, is a response to a multitude of questions, some intrinsic to the specifics of site, program and economics, others more general to the profession’s internal discourse and still others to the culture at large. It is the first job of the critic to list and…