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The Candela Structures: Architecture as Storytelling

Kirsten Hively visits the Candela Structures, relics of the 1964/5 World’s Fair, and encourages us to investigate the stories behind our city’s forgotten structures and spaces.

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The Omnibus Roundup – keys, heavy things, Jackson Heights and transit congestion

In the past, keys to a city were reserved for the heroic and the honored. Now, thanks to artist Paul Ramírez Jonas, you can bestow a key to New York City upon your own personal hero. Through June 27th, “Key to the City” will distribute 35,000 free keys…

Archipelago

This original Urban Omnibus-produced video explores a day in the life of five New York neighborhoods: Hunts Point, Jamaica, Mariner’s Harbor, Downtown Brooklyn, and Chelsea.

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The Omnibus Roundup – The City We Imagined / The City We Made

Update: You can now view Archipelago, an original Urban Omnibus video production, exhibited in The City We Imagined / The City We Made, that explores a day in the life of five New York neighborhoods: Hunts Point, Jamaica, Mariner’s Harbor, Downtown Brooklyn, and Chelsea, here on Urban Omnibus…

Guide to the Wastelands of the Flushing River

Spanish-born, Rotterdam-based artist Lara Almarcegui’s Guide to the Wastelands of Flushing River — at Ludlow38 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side — carves an interdisciplinary niche at the intersection of photography, urban studies, and performance — a terrain every bit as ambiguous and enticing as the urban…

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The Omnibus Roundup – Stuy Town, H2O, BQE, HSR and PS1

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…

The Omnibus Roundup – Atlantic Terminal, Domino, Spa Castle and 2020

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…

Mapping Main Street: Flushing, Queens

Mapping Main Street heads to Flushing for audio-video explorations of Main St. produced by neighborhood students, providing a local snapshot of the nation-wide project.

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Red Lines Tour next week!

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…

“Any place can become a park” – thoughts from Adrian Benepe

Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe shares thoughts on recent and upcoming additions to the city’s collection of parks on unlikely sites.

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