Michael Bierut
“The public won’t ever tell you, ‘this is how you change our mind.'”
Pathways in Technology High School
“For every student who comes to P-TECH, they’re going to be a great leader in the city, in another ten years–and we’re so proud of them. But it’s also about the whole economic development of New York City… ”
Klaus Lackner
“And so, in essence, this is a CO2 pump: it takes CO2 from the air and pumps it and delivers it into this stream. This will work over and over for years and years.”
Lara Penin and Eduardo Staszowski
“If we want society to change, we should look at ourselves, and learn from whatever is already working.”
Nilda Mesa
“More trees, more plants, more – OK, in my big picture thing – I would love to see more raptors in the city.”
Erin Barnes
“The first thing you can do is take a look around. What does the block where you live look like? What does the block where you work look like?”
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… ”
Eric Sanderson
“In fact, what we need to be talking about isn’t with nature or without nature, but between nature.”
David Hyde Pierce
I’m not a big person for revolution. I believe in change happening at a pace that allows it to meaningful. So much that I’ve seen going on in the city in the past couple years has seemed to be going in the right direction.
Reese Schonfeld
It’s the most exciting city in the world to work in. I could walk down the street, bump into somebody; you begin to talk to each other and before you know it, we are starting a business. It’s just people you meet casually.
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.”
Gavin Schmidt
Let’s deal with the science. And there are uncertainties there too, we can talk about those. But gases don’t care whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, left wing or right wing, libertarian or conservative.
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.”