The future of South Queens
New York City’s trendsetting oceanfront is along the Rockaway Peninsula. After Sandy, how is the city planning ahead for those neighborhoods?
Kaye Cain-Nielsen
Footbridge to the future?
“New Yorkers don’t need a Nantucket; they need easy access to public green spaces.”
What lies beneath
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?
Beaches are opening? Beaches are opening!
We repeat, so that we ourselves believe it: all beaches (well, except Fort Tilden) will be open for swimming… tomorrow.
Zero emissions: nothing but hot air?
Is Tesla’s market victory cause to celebrate for those who mourned the death of the electric car?
Breaking the use-and-discard cycle, one repair at a time
“As a nation we’ve begun to rethink our relationship with food — now is the time to rethink our relationship with consumer objects as well.”
A city of humans
When he began creating the visual census of New Yorkers known as Humans of New York (aka HONY), Brandon Stanton’s goal was to make 10,000 portraits, not to get 10,000 Facebook likes.
Drake and the resilient city
With transparency and sustained idealism, Drake presented her firm’s urban sponges, parks, and “infra-sutures” that aim to heal past wounds and current conflicts caused by massive city projects–like Moses’s BQE, and by “acts of god” like Sandy.
Redesign, revive the Rockaways: MoMA’s call for ideas
MoMA and PS1 will present 25 winning designs for alternate public housing, for new public space, and other sustainable, new developments for the Sandy-ravaged neighborhood. The call is open to everyone.