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This week brought news that Tishman Speyer and BlackRock Realty are handing over Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village to creditors to avoid bankruptcy. The Wall Street Journal lists the estimated value of the properties at $1.8 billion, just three and a half years after the $5.4 billion deal to purchase the… 
01 29 10 • by Urban Omnibus • infrastructure, manhattan, queens, rail, real estate, roundup, street, transit, waterfront
Those of you that came along for our walk through the Atlantic-Pacific Subway Station a few months ago might want to swing by the transit hub again -- the new LIRR Atlantic Terminal Pavilion is now open. The terminal, which links the LIRR, 10 subway lines, and 5…
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Mapping Main Street heads to Flushing for some audio-video explorations of Main Street produced by neighborhood students, providing a local snapshot of the nation-wide project.
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On September 24, don’t miss an opportunity to tour Red Lines: Housing Crisis Learning Center with the artist who conceived and designed the exhibit, Damon Rich, and with Queens Museum curator Larissa Harris. The tour, presented by the Architectural League, will be at 3:30 p.m. at…
09 17 09 • by Nick Anderson • architectural league, Center for Urban Pedagogy, exhibition, housing, live event, queens, to do
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Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe shares with Alec Appelbaum some thoughts on several recent and upcoming additions to the city's collection of parks created on unlikely sites.
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Urban agriculture meets the Floating Pool: GOOD Magazine visits the Science Barge, a floating farm and environmental education center where produce is grown through sustainable hydroponics, and visitors are taught how to implement the practice on their own rooftops. No rooftop access? Didn’t stop these
08 07 09 • by Urban Omnibus • bronx, brooklyn, grand concourse, news, queens, roundup, street, to do, transit, urban agriculture, video, waterfront
Many of you have been getting into work by Marpillero Pollak Architects, info about East New York, and all the interesting happenings over at the Architectural League. If you fall...
07 23 09 • by Varick Shute • architectural league, brooklyn, community engagement, east new york, landscape architecture, neighborhood, podcast, public space, queens, street, whitestone
The Roundup keeps you up to date with topics we’ve featured, and other goings on at the intersection of design and New York City’s built environment.
After public consideration of competing visions for Coney Island's future, the City's plan for the iconic seaside
06 19 09 • by Urban Omnibus • brooklyn, coney island, infrastructure, news, queens, roundup, transit, upper east side, urban agriculture
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Sandro Marpillero, Linda Pollak and Margie Ruddick share perspectives on their transformation of Queens Plaza, recasting the relationship between ecology, art and infrastructure.
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