Category Archives: Front Page Features

Claire WeiszMarch 5, 2013"...Our cities all over the country--from Detroit to New Orleans--present the best opportunity for lowering our carbon footprint..."
 
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New Developments on Roosevelt IslandNovember 20, 2012The island is now home to a memorial to FDR and soon, a Cornell Tech Campus
 
Hester Street CollaborativeNovember 12, 2012"Design allows for the different learning styles to be celebrated and exercised...we see our students keep coming back to learn and they get engaged more and more."
 
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Occupy Sandy relief effort at Rockaway Beach, 11/4/12. Photo: Chris KreusslingNovember 5, 2012
 
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Summer Streets wraps up the 2012 season with some Double Dutch actionAugust 22, 2012For three Saturdays in August, the city opened lengths of Park Avenue and other normally busy thoroughfares for people and bikes. And salsa, tai chi, double-dutch and ziplines.
 
Warm Up Saturdays at MoMA PS1August 21, 2012A Sat­ur­day at MoMA PS1 in the sum­mer is not your aver­age visit to a museum. Sure, the museum is open, but once you walk in, you may be dis­tracted by the thump­ing DJ mix com­ing from the back of the build­ing. Wel­come to Warm Up, MoMA PS1′s annual sum­mer rave. Fea­tur­ing this year’s Young Archi­tec­ture Award [...]
 
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Children design the ideal city // Los niños diseñan la ciudad idealJuly 17, 2012Even though the day was hot and the park looked more like an arid desert with few green bushes, the children there concentrated on their dream: building their own ideal cities.
 
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Free kayaking in the cityJune 13, 2012From mid-May to mid-October, the Hudson River Greenway's Downtown Boathouse (located at Pier 96 and Pier 40) offers short escapes from the hustle and bustle in the form of free kayaking sessions.
 
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Glenn PhillipsApril 12, 2012"When should you go bird watching? Now."
 
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Projjal DuttaDecember 22, 2011"New York is livable–it is more than livable, it’s wonderful -- because of density. And not just the density of people, but I think the density of opportunity."
 
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Diana BalmoriDecember 6, 2011"I would like within the next ten years for the whole surface of the city to be totally porous... "
 
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Dong-Ping WongSeptember 27, 2011"Plus Pool is a floating pool in the river for everyone. The most important aspect of the design is that it filters river water through the pool’s walls."
 
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Eagle Street Rooftop FarmSeptember 17, 2011Volunteer to help maintain the farm from seeding to harvest. Eagle Street Rooftop Farm - rooftopfarms.org
 
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Milton PuryearSeptember 1, 2011"All the way from Greenpoint to Bayridge there were, for a hundred years, only four places where a private citizen could get to the water."
 
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City Hall subway station, 1904May 24, 2011This is an exam­ple front page fea­ture post.
 
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The Sandhog ProjectApril 19, 2011