STATE OF THE CITY
Mayor Bloomberg delivered the State of the City address on Wednesday. His focus was on neighborhood specific issues, including various changes ranging from livery cab policies to urban technology innovations. “Transformation” — economic, technological, physical, social, and otherwise — and “simplicity” were the words of the day. The Staten Island Navy..

Open House New York is unlocking doors and waiving admission fares all across the city this weekend. Have you signed up to explore Bayside’s Fort Totten? A peak inside the Chrysler Building? A Cathedral tour of St John the Divine? From historic homes to botanic…

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Sometimes taking a look at how we used to see and imagine the city is as valuable as looking ahead to its future, and we often do both. With SepiaTown, a user-generated map of wonderfully washed-out historical …

Our friends at the Center for Urban Pedagogy have released their latest project, The Water Underground, in collaboration with the Lower East Side Ecology Center, City-as-School and RECYouth. CUP worked with students to research and produce a …

Thankfully, Urban Omnibus readers are not the only people in the world who get super excited about things like New York’s first ever visitor center for a public infrastructure project. Our friends at Fresh Kills Park alerted us on Friday …

Next Tuesday, the Architectural League will host a talk by Andrew Whalley, who heads up the New York Office of the international architecture firm Grimshaw Architects. Many of this firm’s current and recent work has Urban Omni-love written all …

Everyone knows that the rooftops of New York are the city’s most underutilized real estate asset. But while convincing your landlord to install that bamboo roofdeck might be a challenge, telling her to paint it white should, in theory, be …

First off, save the date: on Tuesday, July 7th, please come and join us and our friends and neighbors, the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), for a different kind of SUPERFUND conversation called… “Goo Gone: a live talk show about …

This week on the Omnibus, the city’s much anticipated closing of Broadway’s midtown blocks spearheaded by DOT commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan was heralded as a manifold success: relief for traffic circulation! A triumph for public space — moveable chaises longues…

While we’re talking about subway rides, take a look at three (1, 2, 3) visualizations of subway ridership in New York City from 1905 to 2006. These maps not only illustrate stories of neighborhood change, …