Tomorrow, Saturday, July 24th, the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance is hosting the third annual City of Water Day Festival. Head to Governors Island, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Liberty State Park and the Atlantic Basin for free harbor boat tours, a children's festival, live music, and a film expo. (If you…

This week New York City was fascinated by the unearthing of a portion of an 18th Century ship during excavation at the World Trade Center site. CityRoom provided an account of the discovery and of the urgency of its archaeological documentation, noting that the 30-foot segment of the wooden vessel began deteriorating as…

Image courtesy of Sustainable South Bronx via NPR With temperatures in the triple digits earlier this week, residents in major cities like New York, Washington and Philadelphia felt the heat more so than those living in more rural areas due to the heat island effect. That said, a new

Summer is just around the corner and that means outdoor movies, lazy days in the park, ice cream -- and some sweltering heat. It isn't always easy to escape from climbing temperatures. New York City only has 54 public pools for its 8 million plus residents and with only…

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 from their…

Our friends at the Center for Urban Pedagogy have released their latest project, The Water Underground, in collaboration with the Lower East Side Ecology Center, City-as-School and RECYouth. CUP worked with students to research and produce a video exploring our city's water infrastructure…

Contemplations of New York City's past, present and future are everywhere this spring. The League's new exhibition The City We Imagined/The City We Made, now in its second week at 250 Hudson St., is an opportunity to reflect on the most recent chapter of New York's development history (2001-2010). On Monday

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…

Union Square is the latest stretch of Broadway that might soon become another one of Bloomberg’s "signature open-air concrete parks,” pedestrianized and plaza-ified like Times Square and Herald Square. The proposal will be presented on Monday to the local community board, and the…

Up There from Mekanism on Vimeo. Yesterday was Earth day. It was also the three-year anniversary of Mayor Bloomberg’s announcement of PlaNYC 2030. Financial and political obstacles have impeded progress on many of the 2009 goals -- of the 127 initiatives proposed on Earth Day 2008, only 51 have been entirely completed…