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Making Meaning Together: The Triangle Fire Open Archive and Open Museum
by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani • September 5th, 2012
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani tells the story behind an innovative memorial to a century-old tragedy with an evolving and enduring legacy for labor rights, building codes and the challenges of commemoration.
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Field Trip: Arthur Avenue
by Samuel Freeman • August 16th, 2012
Manhattan has Mulberry Street, Brooklyn has Bensonhurst, and the Bronx has Arthur Avenue. All three are neighborhoods that lay claim...
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Sacred Spaces in Profane Buildings
by Urban Omnibus • November 2nd, 2011
Matilde Cassani discusses her archive and exhibition and what it reveals about the evolving relationship between religious praxis, cultural identity and urban life.
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A Walk Through Jackson Heights with Suketu Mehta
by Urban Omnibus • February 9th, 2011
Suketu Mehta reflects on immigration, density and neighborhood change while wandering the Queens streets where he lived as a teenager.
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Field Trip: Aqueduct Flea Market
by Cassim Shepard • December 23rd, 2010
This week, the massive Flea Market that has operated in the north parking lot of the Aqueduct Racetrack for the...
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Bringing Basements to Code
by Seema Agnani • March 10th, 2010
Seema Agnani’s work with South Asian immigrants on housing needs charts a course for legalizing basement apartments to create affordable housing.
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The Immigrants & Parks Collaborative
by The JM Kaplan Fund • October 14th, 2009
For five years this collaborative has worked to address the challenge of increasing immigrant involvement in city parks. Check out their work and hear from two participants.
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