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The Quiet City

Douglas Ljungkvist is a travel and architectural photographer based in Brooklyn. His latest project, “The Quiet City,” explores the vernacular beauty of New York City’s industrial streetscapes. Here, Ljungkvist shares a slideshow of his work and the inspiration behind the series…

Vinegar Hill to the Pencil Factory

Yesterday I went down underneath the Manhattan Bridge to pick up my rejected manuscript from a publisher. Feeling a little blue, I shoved my hands in my pockets, kicked at the dirt like a ragamuffin, and walked all the way back to Greenpoint, sticking as close to the East River as

The Omnibus Roundup – BigApps, pedestrians and transit, Clip-on follow-up, maps and architecture-centric art

App-lovers take note: the NYC Economic Development Corporation has presented the winners of its NYC BigApps contest. The winners, who received cash prizes ranging from $500 to $5,000, include the grand prize-winning WayFinder NYC, an augmented reality application that helps users find…

The Omnibus Roundup: safaris, MTA data, street vendors, photos of streets and skies

Safari 7 is back! Actually, it never went away. But starting next Thursday you can delve deeper into the 3D maps, drawings and podcasts that illuminate the ecosystems along this urban transect that runs from Times Square to Flushing.

OPENING: THU 7-9PM OCTOBER 15
LOCATION: Studio-X 180…

“Any place can become a park” – thoughts from Adrian Benepe

Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe shares thoughts on recent and upcoming additions to the city’s collection of parks on unlikely sites.

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The Omnibus Roundup – photos of nowhere, bike share, transit info tech

Wait, the site in the image above couldn’t be in Manhattan, could it? It is, in fact. It’s one of the many overlooked spots of our dense urban island in which a recalcitrant nature has overcome vestiges of a forgotten built environment. For his Nowhere in Manhattan project…

Calling all shutterbugs:
join the New New York Photography Corps

… here’s your chance to work with leading architectural photographers and archivists and to contribute original photography to an exhibition that will interrogate how the physical city has changed since 2001.

The Brooklyn Typology Project

Artist and urban planner Neil Freeman reflects on ways web-based art practice, urban planning data and tireless neighborhood exploration can inform each other, using his own work as a case study.

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Why Grand Central Works

Vishaan Chakrabarti walks through one of the city’s favorite spaces. His reflections range from design details to regional economics to the relationship between infrastructure and density.

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A Walk with Frank Duffy

Frank Duffy and Rosalie Genevro reflect on the buildings of Lower Manhattan, critically assessing what our use of commercial space can tell us about our changing city.

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