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Vinegar Hill to the Pencil Factory
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 possible. It took two
A Deep Pool of Talent: What Will “Rising Currents” Yield?
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…
The Omnibus Roundup – Urban farming, budgets, TIGER and nano-helicopters
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 a project…
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 purchase the…
Parsons Integrated Studio: the 79th Street Boat Basin
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.
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The Omnibus Roundup – science barge & waterpod, Concourse, Queens Plaza, moving walkways
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 these
The Omnibus Roundup – mayoral control, city of water, augmented reality, predatory equity
The Roundup keeps you up to date with topics we’ve featured, and other things we think are worth knowing about. Nothing screams "Summertime!" like the adjourning of an Albany legislative session. This time, State Senators left more than just the usual state politics soap opera in limbo…
The Omnibus Roundup – Beaux Arts Ball, meet-ups, Floating Pool, billyburg walks
The Roundup keeps you up to date with topics we’ve featured, and other things we think are worth knowing about. Welcome to a very out-and-about edition of the Roundup. Who says life slows down in the summer? Tomorrow night come rage with us at the Architectural League's…
MTS casts shadow on West Harlem Piers Park
The sun beamed through broken cloud last weekend on the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the West Harlem Piers Park, at 132nd Street on the west waterfront. But even as Mayor Bloomberg kicked off celebrations in his famously shaky Spanish, inclusively welcoming all communities to Harlem's newest riverside spot, the dormant 135th Marine Transfer Station…
Now that’s what I call a meet-up
The first impromptu Omnibus meet-up, thanks in large part to our friends at WNYC, was a huge success. More than 80 people showed up to explore the Newtown Creek Nature Walk with its designer, artist and longtime creek explorer George Trakas. George graciously shared design strategies, local histories and anecdotes from a ten-year…
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