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The Omnibus Roundup – Jamaica Bay Parks, High Line Phase 3, Sleek City Lights, Back-up Tokyo, Selling Housing and Poem Forest

IMPROVING JAMAICA BAY PARKS
Mayor Bloomberg, along with representatives of the US Department of the Interior, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the New York City and State Departments of Environmental Conservation, this week announced a joint project to

Gowanus Lowline: Connections

David Briggs and Anthony Deen share the winning designs from the first of a series of competitions that address the challenges of developing contaminated urban areas.

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The City Dark

Documentary filmmaker Ian Cheney talks to us about light pollution, the disappearance of the night sky and what we can do to reconnect our city to the stars.

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The Omnibus Roundup — Vacancy, Downtown Whitney, Gunky Gowanus, East River Ferry and Brownfields

COUNTING VACANT SPACES
Hunter College’s Center for Community Development Planning and advocacy group Picture the Homeless (PTH) are the first in the city to begin to document and quantify the number of vacant properties in a study to understand vacancy …

Gowanus gets Superfunded

Since the Omnibus crew decamped from our previous digs on the banks of the Gowanus Canal this past fall, we’ve tried to hold ourselves back from reblogging every time its tortuous path to cleanup makes the news. But today that path became a little clearer – the Canal has been designated a Federal Superfund site. According the New York Times,

Goo Gone Recap

A crowd of 100 assembled at the Old American Can Factory to join us and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) for a different kind of Superfund conversation..

Goo Gone
Tuesday July 7th

So, last week we warned you that we were going to be pushing hard to get you to come to our live talk show next Tuesday. We are all over the walls and feeds of a Facebook or Twitter user near you (BTW, why haven’t you become a fan yet? Why don’t you follow us on Twitter? Come on…

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