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… 
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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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How do you involve people in a community engagement process when there is no defined community? Leslie Koch, president of GIPEC, tells us how she did it on Governors Island. |
This week brought news from both the Brooklyn waterfront and the NASA space shuttle, and talk of both construction and demolition.
An agreement has been reached between the Port Authority, New York…
Yesterday I went down underneath the Manhattan Bridge to pick up my rejected manuscript from a publisher. Feeling a little blue, I shoved my hands in my pockets, kicked at the dirt like a ragamuffin, and walked all the way back to Greenpoint, sticking as close to the East River as
Waterfront planner Carter Craft offers a preview of what to expect, and what to look for, when MoMA’s new design show, Rising Currents, opens next week. The exhibition will display the design schemes of five interdisciplinary teams, charged with re-envisioning “the coastlines of New York and New Jersey around New York Harbor and…
Food, urban farming and policy are on our minds this week, (by the way — Foodprint NYC is still on, snowstorm or no snowstorm), and it looks like the issues are peaking interest near and far: Architecture Lab reports on…
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…
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David Leven and Derek Porter discuss how their architecture and lighting design students collaborated to reimagine access to and use of this complex waterfront site. |
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…
