roosevelt island
Now that the Times Square pedestrian plazas are a permanent fixture, the Department of Transportation has selected a temporary installation for Broadway before the site gets a major makeover in 2012. Molly Dilworth, a Brooklyn-based artist known by many for her rooftop paintings, was chosen out… 
05 28 10 • by Urban Omnibus • broadway, bronx, census, garment district, jamaica bay, parks, public art, roosevelt island, subway, to do
Yesterday was a beautiful day for wandering along Roosevelt Island's waterfront. The Omnibus team and fifty of our friends spent the afternoon learning about the history of the masterplan, seeing one of the infamous pneumatic trash chutes in action, and getting a guided tour of the Fast Trash! exhibition (open…
05 17 10 • by Varick Shute • exhibition, infrastructure, live event, meet-up, recap, roosevelt island, urban exploration, waste, waste management
On Sunday, May 16th, do not miss a rare opportunity to explore Roosevelt Island with one of its masterplanners and then enjoy a guided tour of an exhibition that unveils the Island's best kept secret: it's trash collection system is straight out of the Jetsons... But what's cool about Fast
FAST TRASH is an exhibition about the underground pneumatic garbage collection system in use on Roosevelt Island in New York City since 1975. We are so into this topic — exposing an innovative infrastructural system, exploring a fascinating New York city neighborhood, and speculating on what it might mean for the future of cities — that we are inviting all of you to come
As Steven Dale's piece "Off the Road and Into the Skies" shows us, aerial gondolas offer more than meets the eye. And his local case study, the Roosevelt Island Tramway, is not just for tourists. But this spring it will be closed for maintenence - so take a field trip before it's too…
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As cities demand more efficient transit systems, Steven Dale argues for thinking off the road and outside the subway, and thinks that Cable-Propelled Transit could be our answer.
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