Hurricane Sandy bulletin
(Screenshot: New York Times Interactive Hurricane Map; 11 AM, 10/26) New York City is in for quite a wallop from Hurricane Sandy, beginning on Sunday…
Richard Reiss
Robot explores Gowanus Canal, seeks collaborators
The miniaturized exploration of New York waterways continues on Tuesdays and Thursdays in coming weeks, courtesy of Brooklyn Atlantis, a new research project from NYU…
NYC surfers seek ban on plastic bags
I picked one up shopping this morning, writer Ian Frazier has been driven mad by seeing them in trees, and soon they may be banned…
Transportation Alternatives seeks public input on upcoming Play Streets
Transportation Alternatives, the advocacy organization perhaps most responsible for the opening of New York streets to pedestrians and bicycles, is holding a series of meetings…
A supergroup forms in the anti-fracking movement
Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono joined with activist Mark Ruffalo at a Manhattan press conference this week, adding their voices to the anti-fracking movement at a time when Governor Cuomo is in the late stages of a fateful determination about permitting fracking in New York State.
Bike share pushed back till spring
As reported on Transportation Nation this morning, the New York City Bike Share program launch date has been pushed back to next spring.
The Bronx River, restored
The Bronx River is coming back to it’s former beauty, piece by piece. Michael Kimmelman of the New York Times shows how it is changing.
Can you kickstart a city?
Is crowdfunding website Kickstarter a good way to redesign cities? Alexandra Lange thinks not. In a provocative post at Design Observer, she says: “A suitable funding platform for a watch is not a suitable funding platform for a city.
The bike station map arrives
Today, the city released the locations of the much anticipated stations for the new bike share program, as shown on an interactive map. As noted…
Reimagining the city, beginning with sidewalk sheds
The everyday sidewalk shed — what can be done with it? A team in the MFA Transdisciplinary Design program at Parsons/The New School saw potential: the result, Softwalks, is a design intervention, a kit that can give sheds features of public furniture or other uses to serve the community.