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 …
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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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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 …
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,
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..
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…
