City Atlas: New York • index

The Office of Man­hat­tan Bor­ough Pres­i­dent Scott Stringer in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Office of New York State Assem­bly­mem­ber Brian Kavanagh and other part­ners, has com­mis­sioned a team led by WXY Archi­tec­ture + Urban Design to develop the East River Blue­way Plan, a com­mu­nity– based water­front plan­ning ini­tia­tive. The project will con­sider Manhattan’s East River water­front between the [...]

Link: Green Map NYC For all peo­ple ready to par­tic­i­pate in cre­at­ing a healthy, sus­tain­able and just world, Green Map Sys­tem offers a direct path­way to the sig­nif­i­cant eco­log­i­cal, cul­tural and civic resources near home through our locally pub­lished and inter­ac­tive maps, our glob­ally rec­og­nized icons and map­mak­ing tools, and com­mu­ni­ca­tions net­work link­ing Map­mak­ers in more than 55 countries. [...]

Check out this map showing NYC's privately owned public spaces, and share your experiences going there.    http://citya.tl/sLbXNuSource: www.thenewyorkworld.com, via City Atlas

GrowNYC Green­mar­kets are as diverse as the city itself! Down­load this map here. Down­load the 2011 PDF map of all NYC Green­mar­kets.    

Great source for community maps of NYC - free and all in one place.

Explore the SeeClick­Fix map of NYC right from this page, or go to their web­site to become a reg­is­tered SeeClick­Fix cit­i­zen. SeeClick­Fix asks us to “Imag­ine a world where every cit­i­zen feels empow­ered and part of their neigh­bor­hood. Imag­ine if every­one trusted and felt taken care of by their local gov­ern­ment. We know there are already a lot of [...]

MyBlock​NYC​.com is an inter­ac­tive map­ping web­site that cap­tures and presents per­sonal video accounts of the life and cul­ture of New York City in order to cre­ate an inti­mate, evolv­ing, and com­plete por­trait of this great city. Users upload videos geo­graph­i­cally, build­ing the first fully inter­ac­tive video map of New York City.  

The Met­ro­pol­i­tan Water­front Alliance is the voice of over 500 orga­ni­za­tions with ties to our regional water­ways. Dis­cover who is doing what on the water­front with their inter­ac­tive map.

ioby brings envi­ron­men­tal projects to life, block by block. Search this map to find an envi­ron­men­tal project in your backyard.

A map of the Brooklyn Greenway

Your summer Greenmarkets guide

Before: “One entered the city like a god." After: "One scut­tles in now like a rat.” MAS wants to make Penn Station great again.

Casey Neistat, filmmaker and former bike messenger, is the last person you'd expect to be won over by a 45 lb. blue bike-share bike.

Let us count the ways

The best of Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx, plus a few more we missed in Brooklyn

Sander­son charts a way out of our environmental crisis through smart use of taxes, money, and the occa­sional ego boost.

The physical underground of New York City is vast, and as it turns out, very much uncharted. With damage recent and imminent, what is the future of NYC's infrastructure?

According to writer Kim Stanley Robinson, we must abandon the 'middle way' of coping with crisis, and understand that utopia is possible. But how?

One of the lesser recognized environmental feats of the Bloomberg administration will be the phase-out of heavily polluting heating oils.

Do cities have to be tough? Or is being smart even better?

There are few places in Amer­ica where you can you lose your­self in a shaded for­est, take a twenty-minute break to enjoy empanadas at a Mex­i­can bodega, and then return to the wilder­ness to fin­ish your hike. That's what we did with ecol­o­gist Mariellé Anzelone...

"...Our cities all over the country--from Detroit to New Orleans--present the best opportunity for lowering our carbon footprint..."

"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."

"I really have this fantasy, this image, that a community could develop that begins to picture New York in a bigger way."

"The public won’t ever tell you, 'this is how you change our mind.'"

"For every student who comes to P-TECH, they’re going to be a great leader in the city, in another ten years–and we’re so proud of them. But it’s also about the whole economic development of New York City... "

"And so, in essence, this is a CO2 pump: it takes CO2 from the air and pumps it and delivers it into this stream. This will work over and over for years and years."

"All of our projects start by asking a question about how the city works..."

"When should you go bird watching? Now."

"If we want society to change, we should look at ourselves, and learn from whatever is already working."

  Ris­ing Cur­rents was a 2010 exhibit at MoMA fea­tur­ing re-designs of New York City’s water­front, as a way to show­case ideas for resilient, adap­tive pro­tec­tion from ris­ing sea levels. Among the many activ­i­ties and inves­ti­ga­tions tied to the exhibit, the museum par­tic­i­pated in boat tours of the har­bor, allow­ing vis­i­tors to see loca­tions for pro­posed  pro­tec­tive [...]

Eric Sanderson, ecologist and creator of the Welikia Project, is now leading a team to create a new version of Mannahatta: an interactive tool that will let visitors experiment with the design of the city of the future.

Artist Mary Miss has embarked on a project to use the length of Broad­way as a space for instal­la­tions that can engage the pub­lic in the city’s plans for the future.  In this video from Arts​Fwd​.org, pre­pared for the Rock­e­feller Foun­da­tion, Mary Miss describes the back­ground and goals of this ambi­tious pub­lic art initiative:     As described [...]

A design workshop at Parsons worked with historical data gathered by a Hunter urban planning class to create information graphics about NYC.

The playful style of this PSA encourages viewers to do their part. Something as simple as painting rooftops white is surprisingly effective.

Tree Museum was a unique pub­lic art project by Katie Holten, installed on the Grand Con­course in the Bronx, from June 21 – Feb­ru­ary 28, 2010 treemu​seum​.org  

Bus Roots is a living garden on the rooftops of city buses.

Below are the col­ors we cre­ated at the Colum­bia Green­mar­ket on Sep­tem­ber 9th. We used mums and kale from Stan­nard Farm, Wash­ing­ton County, NY, and cel­ery from Acevedo Farm in Orange County, NY. Join us Sat­ur­day Sept 29th  at the Brook­lyn Bor­ough Hall green­mar­ket. We will there from 10am-3pm cre­at­ing dyes!   Mums     Mums [...]

Many thanks to every­one who helped Tex­tile Lab felt together two amaz­ing tex­tiles to give to the farm­ers at Gar­den Of Eve and Nor­wich Mead­ows Farm. The farms bartered food in exchange for hand­crafted tex­tiles at the Unsold Sup­per Event on Sat­ur­day. The feast was incred­i­ble… it was an amaz­ing end to a beau­ti­ful day at the market!

Join Tex­tile Lab tomor­row Sat­ur­day Sep­tem­ber 15th from 4–6 with our friends from  Our Goods to engage, cre­ate and feast at the “Unsold Sup­per” Event. We will be felt­ing gifts to give to the farm­ers using local, nat­u­rally dyed fiber!  Please see our revised Green­mar­ket sched­ule below for Sep­tem­ber, Octo­ber and Novem­ber. Tex­tile Lab will be [...]

We made dyes last week at the Tomp­kins Square Mar­ket with sage and radish tops from Acevedo Farm, Pine Island, NY. Below are the col­ors and pic­tures from the mar­ket. Please join us this Sat­ur­day 9/15 [UPDATED: at the Union Square Green­mar­ket]. We will be there from 3pm-6pm cre­at­ing dyes and  spin­ning local, nat­u­rally dyed fiber! [...]

At the Green­point Green­mar­ket we cre­ated dyes with rose­mary and cilantro from Osczepin­ski Farm, Goshen, NY. Farmer Joe from Health­way Farms gave us some red cab­bage to make dye with! Here is the color palette:     Below are pic­tures from our visit:    

We had a suc­cess­ful visit to the Green­mar­ket at the Fort Greene Park last Sat­ur­day. We made dye with  marigolds from Rex­croft Farms in Athens NY, car­rot tops from Conuco Farm in New Paltz NY and mint from J Gle­bocki Farms LLC. We also met many peo­ple from the Fort Greene neigh­bor­hood. There were many ques­tions about the [...]

The com­mu­nity at Inwood includes many peo­ple who are inter­ested in sus­tain­abil­ity and the envi­ron­ment.  Many vis­i­tors stopped by Tex­tile Lab to learn about nat­ural dyes. We cre­ated dyes with sun­flow­ers and euca­lyp­tus from J Gle­bocki Farms, Orange County NY. Mariko Hashimoto vis­ited the lab. Mariko is a licensed Aro­mather­a­pist and Estheti­cian who lives in Inwood where [...]

Tex­tile Lab will be vis­it­ing the GrowNYC Green­mar­kets start­ing Sat­ur­day August 11th! We will be at the Inwood mar­ket from 10am-3pm har­vest­ing plants and flow­ers to make dyes and spin­ning local wool. Check out our sched­ule to see when the lab will be at  your neigh­bor­hood Greenmarket!                 [...]

It's mid-summer and thanks to the persistent sun, the sunflowers are doing great this year. We will be at La Finca this Saturday from 11-2pm to discuss the project and phytoremediation. Please join us.

We will be spend­ing a lot of time at La Finca del Sur this sum­mer again, test­ing out some new plants and grow­ing some more of what worked well. We will have a series of work­shops on SATURDAY, MAY 19     11 – 2PM SATURDAY, JUNE 16    11 – 2PM SATURDAY, JULY 14    11 – 2PM SATURDAY, AUGUST [...]