“Poetry is a way of life,” says poet Jon Cotner as we walk down a path in Fort Greene Park. To Cotner, poetry is also public, inherently social and plays out in the modern day agoras of the city.
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New York has persevered through two heat waves so far in summer 2013, including a day that broke the Con Ed record for peak energy use. When will we experience the next heat wave and how bad will it be?
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?