More than a billion gallons of water travel through New York State every day, starting upstate and journeying down to...

REUSING HISTORIC GOVERNORS ISLAND The 173-acre Governors Island continues its transformation from serving as an active military base to providing...

COUNTING VACANT SPACES Hunter College’s Center for Community Development Planning and advocacy group Picture the Homeless (PTH) are the first in...

GETTING TRANSPORTATION POLICY RIGHT In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, the Brookings Institution's Robert Puentes calls for an overhaul to the way our country spends its transportation dollars. Moving away from the transportation infrastructure improvements that have built enough new highway lane miles since 2000 to circle the world four times, Puentes instead advocates for a necessary alignment between transportation and the new economy with private and public sectors joining forces to cut carbon emissions and increase connectivity. Puentes spells out a series of...

DIGITAL ROADMAP As the digital age descends on NYC, the Bloomberg administration has a plan. Rachel Sterne (the recently appointed 27-year...

VOTE! Tuesday, November 2nd is Election Day -- don't forget to vote! For the procrastinators among us, Gotham Gazette has an election guide, with who's running, ballot questions, and when and where to show up. DEATH OF A TUNNEL It's final - the ARC tunnel project is...

Up There from Mekanism on Vimeo. Yesterday was Earth day. It was also the three-year anniversary of Mayor Bloomberg’s announcement...

In this week’s feature, Kate Zidar focused on the importance of designing for stormwater management. Careful consideration of the use,...

Adrienne Cortez explores the social, physical, and environmental implications of uncapping fire hydrants and proposes an alternative strategy for beating the heat.

Like most of my colleagues, I tip my hat to Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council for devising a plan to...