Favelas Pop-Up in Queens!
There are favelas in Queens! Well…sort-of. The iconic Brazilian shanty-towns are making an appearance on the campus of Queens College in Flushing – as a huge set of three playful dioramas.
Footbridge to the future?
“New Yorkers don’t need a Nantucket; they need easy access to public green spaces.”
Designing a new water’s edge for the Upper East Side and Harlem
A community-organized panel discussion addresses tissues surrounding the redevelopment of the East River Esplanade.
Think first, eat second: a community meal with COLORS and the People’s Kitchen
The restaurant, born out of the ashes of 9/11, hosted a dinner to bring discussions of food justice and labor justice to the table.
Does New York need a new scale model?
How can the public best visualize New York City — and surrounding coastline — changing in the years after Hurricane Sandy? A proposal for a scale model of the city and waterfront.
A team greens a patch of city in Kensington, Brooklyn
One kind of resilience might start with a few spare Fridays of digging and planting on some blocks near your friend’s house.
The future of Southern Manhattan
Other boroughs suffered equal, or more brutal, direct consequences from Hurricane Sandy, but the visual impact of a darkened Manhattan captured the imagination.
River-filtered floating pool aims for 2016
+ Pool, the dauntless and brilliant crowd-sourced river pool project, moves a step closer to reality.
The future of Southern Brooklyn, including Coney Island
As a bustling community attached to the massive built environment of the city, it was easy to overlook how vulnerable Coney Island and the neighborhoods around it have always been to the full force of the Atlantic.
A would a vertical format work for farming in cities?
Are vertical farms worth their height in food?
The future of the Brooklyn Queens waterfront
The SIRR is a 30 year plan for 8 million people. It’s likely the most detailed climate change adaptation plan anywhere, and here is what it says about the Brooklyn Queens Waterfront.
A petition begins to preserve a research facility at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden
Budget cutbacks forced a shutdown of the noted research facility at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, bringing sharp public criticism.
Can it get any hotter in New York City?
NYC°CoolRoofs and Deutsche Bank teamed up this week to cool off a roof in the Bronx, and we tagged along.
Across from Edgar Allen Poe’s cottage, talent flourishes in a high-end community center
The Community Mapping Initiative at Poe Park is part of a wave of community collaborative platforms.
Atop Brooklyn Grange, City Growers plow into action
For an NYC school kid the chance to visit a rooftop farm is exciting, and City Growers trains the older ones to teach the younger ones how a farm works.
“Chasing Ice” tracks climate change in pictures
Balog’s stunning pictures present the physical evidence of climate change.
Citywide, stronger business case for green buildings
The belief that business and the environment cannot thrive together is challenged by the success of several green residential developments in NYC.