Claire Weisz
“…Our cities all over the country–from Detroit to New Orleans–present the best opportunity for lowering our carbon footprint…”
New Developments on Roosevelt Island
The island is now home to a memorial to FDR and soon, a Cornell Tech Campus
Hester Street Collaborative
“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.”
Summer Streets wraps up the 2012 season with some Double Dutch action
For 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 PS1
A Saturday at MoMA PS1 in the summer is not your average visit to a museum. Sure, the museum is open, but once you walk…
Children design the ideal city // Los niños diseñan la ciudad ideal
Even 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.
Free kayaking in the city
From 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.
Projjal Dutta
“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.”
Diana Balmori
“I would like within the next ten years for the whole surface of the city to be totally porous… ”
Dong-Ping Wong
“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.”
Eagle Street Rooftop Farm
Volunteer to help maintain the farm from seeding to harvest. Eagle Street Rooftop Farm – rooftopfarms.org
Milton Puryear
“All the way from Greenpoint to Bay Ridge there were, for a hundred years, only four places where a private citizen could get to the water.”