Longtime NYC biker Neistat switches to Citi Bike
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.
Social justice is on the menu: Drive Change NYC
Serving delicious food with a side of social justice.
More outdoor summer movies!
The best of Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx, plus a few more we missed in Brooklyn
Eric Sanderson on oil, cars and suburbs
Eric Sanderson charts a way out of our environmental crisis through smart use of taxes, money, and the occasional ego boost.
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?
Kim Stanley Robinson: utopia and how to get there
According to writer Kim Stanley Robinson, we must abandon the ‘middle way’ of coping with crisis, and understand that utopia is possible. But how?
Life cycle of an NYC soot cloud
One of the lesser recognized environmental feats of the Bloomberg administration will be the phase-out of heavily polluting heating oils.
A preview of the city’s report on Sandy
The city showed slides to explain Sandy and to forecast the future, in advance of the release of the Special Initiative on Rebuilding and Resiliency report.
Revival and renewal: canoeing on the Gowanus Canal
Free, walk-up canoeing throughout the summer at the 2nd Street launch near Bond Street in Brooklyn.
MoMA hosts The Exchange Café
The Exchange Café makes a simple trip for tea, milk, and honey, an opportunity to touch upon a universal sense of fellowship that is often lost.
New York Grand Opera cancelled because of climate change
In an age of unpredictable weather patterns – how will public art and performance communities adapt to environmental changes?
Seduced by cheap oil, do we now wake up with a desire for lost streetcars?
In his new book, Eric Sanderson describes how we got here, and where we can go next.
The Little Free Library gets innovative
New York City is fashionably late to a worldwide phenomenon. Ten professionally designed Little Free Libraries make their way in to downtown Manhattan through September.
Five mayors at IDEAS CITY
How does a city’s history become untapped capital? Five forward-thinking mayors gave their answers at IDEAS CITY.