Archive for the ‘ New York City ’ Category
Conflux is back. It is New York’s psychogeography event of the year. The urban disorientation game is the bomb. [ READ MORE ]
The NYTimes reports on a new book on Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City. I’m sure it’s a worthwhile read, but it’s one that’ll have to wait. I’m deep into the technological emergence of containerization…a place I should have been a couple of years [ READ MORE ]
The NYTimes has this on the dispute over Broadway Triangle, which Columbia did a studio on a couple of years ago. [ READ MORE ]
In case you’re not in NYC or don’t have time to look in detail at the architecture and presence of the city block by block, this website proposes to resolve that problem. [via metafilter] [ READ MORE ]
[From an email sent out by Barry Wellman:] After nearly three years, Hudson Street between Perry and West 11th Street in front of Jane Jacobs former home at 555 Hudson Street will finally be co-named “Jane Jacobs Way” in honor of the pioneering preservation activist. GVSHP first proposed the street co-naming in 2006 shortly after Jacobs’ death; the proposal was [ READ MORE ]
Here is a fun and perhaps economical way to have your own pool in te summer. [ READ MORE ]
Ouroussoff is right on the mark about Ratner’s new stadium for Atlantic Yards. Definitely a travesty for the city…and one that will not overcome the stunning success that the Broadway closings will achieve for Bloomberg as he heads for the next election. [ READ MORE ]
The Bronx Museum sponsored an international ideas competition for reimagining the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. This is JWS’s surely prize-winning entry. A bit of a mishmash of goals (as any good planning actually should be!), but an intriguing set of suggestions nonetheless. I haven’t quite figured out how the raised platform over Park Avenue [ READ MORE ]
Triptropnyc.com is a website that shows you how long it takes to get from where you are to other places in NYC on the subway. [ READ MORE ]
JS sends this short article in on the possibility of touring the South Bronx with the Guardian Angels. Apparently, they will: point out drug houses, money-laundering fronts, murals of drug dealers, housing projects and chop shops. Proceeds go to help the Guardian Angels, but it’s still a bit messed up. [ READ MORE ]
I’m going to ignore this battle between Koreans and Bangladeshis over cultural space in LA. Instead I want to briefly address David Harvey’s suggestion yesterday that NYC should be reindustrialized. I didn’t get a chance to ask why, but two possibilities seemed to emerge from his other comments and my suppositions. First, it could be [ READ MORE ]
A cute animation about how wonderful it is to live in NYC. [ READ MORE ]
Now we’re going to start feeling it. [ READ MORE ]
Claim property for low-income neighbors, demand action from city government From Picture the Homeless: El Barrio/East Harlem, NYC. —Homeless people have taken over an empty building in East Harlem, as part of a coordinated push-back against city policies that let buildings stay empty. The building, which is owned by the city, has been completely vacant for decades. Deborah [ READ MORE ]
ImprovEverywhere hosted a gallery opening on the uptown platform at 23rd Street recently. The story and pix. [ READ MORE ]