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Tyler Caruso and Erik Facteau explain their scientific study of the value of urban farms, an effort to produce hard data that can challenge nay-sayers and inform policies and regulations that support agriculture in the city. |
HIGHWAY REPORT
Over on Streetsblog, Noah Kazis reports on the status of a comprehensive study in progress at the NYC Department of City Planning, funded by a federal TIGER grant, to re-examine the possibility of tearing down the Sheridan Expressway in the Bronx. In 2010, the Department of Transportation released…
In the most recent of its annual “Year in Ideas” issues, the New York Times Magazine devoted a lengthy feature article to the topic of how cities function and how we understand them. Entitled “A Physicist Solves the City…
HOLIDAY-INSPIRED SENSORY OVERLOAD
One of the City’s most well known displays of extreme festivity is a block of homes in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn where you can find dazzling lights and oversized holiday decor, inflatable, animatronic, or otherwise. Check out Gothamist for a slideshow of some of this year’s highlights. Another NYC holiday classic: the midtown…
HAPPY NEW YORKERS
Starting this week on a positive note, a recent survey revealed that most New Yorkers are happy! Or, at least “satisfied.” Of the 1,005 New Yorkers that participated in the first annual Survey on Livability, conducted …
