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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ca. 1930 | For this and more historical images of the annual parade, visit Black Watch
Forum • Roundup
Roundup – Thanksgiving Edition: Turkey Day Transit, Cities on the Cliff, Mayors Challenge, Radiation in Ridgewood, and more on Sandy
by Urban Omnibus • November 21st, 2012
The enormity of recent and current events — natural disasters and a presidential election at home, intensifying violence abroad —...
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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
by Urban Omnibus • November 4th, 2011
IMPROVING JAMAICA BAY PARKS Mayor Bloomberg, along with representatives of the US Department of the Interior, the US Environmental Protection...
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Gowanus Lowline: Connections
by David Briggs and Anthony Deen • August 24th, 2011
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
by Urban Omnibus • August 17th, 2011
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.
Courtesy of Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Collaboration with Cooper Robertson and Partners
Forum • Roundup
The Omnibus Roundup — Vacancy, Downtown Whitney, Gunky Gowanus, East River Ferry and Brownfields
by Urban Omnibus • June 3rd, 2011
COUNTING VACANT SPACES Hunter College’s Center for Community Development Planning and advocacy group Picture the Homeless (PTH) are the first in...
Gowanus Canal
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Gowanus gets Superfunded
by Cassim Shepard • March 2nd, 2010
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,
Franzen Promo
Forum • Roundup
The Omnibus Roundup – Street revisited, LA on Broadway, environmental racism, critics & Conflux
by Urban Omnibus • August 28th, 2009
We’re always tickled by the weird and wonderful places Omnibus content pops up across the world wide web, but especially...
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Forum • Live Events
Goo Gone Recap
by Cassim Shepard • July 8th, 2009
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..
SpongeParks
Forum • Live Events
Goo Gone: July 7, 2009
by Cassim Shepard • July 1st, 2009
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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