Thursday, March 11. 12:30pm What: Two Groundbreakings to Protest Ratner’s Boondoggle Ceremony Who: Three foot tall bobblehead Bloomberg, Markowitz, Pataki, Spitzer, Paterson, Schumer, Cuomo, Prokhorov and Ratner Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn Where: Outside of Freddy’s Bar, 485 Dean Street (corner of 6th Avenue) When: Thursday, March 11. 12:30pm SHARP Project opponents should gather at Freddy’s to start the protest at 1pm. Bring your […]
Thursday, March 11. 12:30pm What: Two Groundbreakings to Protest Ratner’s Boondoggle Ceremony Who: Three foot tall bobblehead Bloomberg, Markowitz, Pataki, Spitzer, Paterson, Schumer, Cuomo, Prokhorov and Ratner Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn Where: Outside of Freddy’s Bar, 485 Dean Street (corner of 6th Avenue) When: Thursday, March 11. 12:30pm SHARP Project opponents should gather at Freddy’s to start the protest at 1pm. Bring your […]
The Project for Public Spaces is pleased to annouce that this spring we are offering our three very popular Placemaking training courses, How to Turn a Place Around, Streets as Places, and How to Create Successful Markets. Every year we reevaluate the courses to reflect the changes that transpire so rapidly around us. For example, […]
The Project for Public Spaces is pleased to annouce that this spring we are offering our three very popular Placemaking training courses, How to Turn a Place Around, Streets as Places, and How to Create Successful Markets. Every year we reevaluate the courses to reflect the changes that transpire so rapidly around us. For example, […]
As you may know, the New York Landmarks Conservancy is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and reusing architecturally and historically important buildings in New York City. Much of the Conservancy’s work takes place in low and moderate income neighborhoods, demonstrating over and over again the positive effect of historic preservation on community development […]
by Rochelle Spencer If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the vivid images from Fran Leadon’s keynote address to Saturday’s 16th Annual Preservation Conference are worthy of several dictionaries. As co-author of the forthcoming AIA Guide to New York City, Leadon, an assistant professor at Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, City […]
The Preservation Diaries By Susan Kathryn Hefti Special to The Clyde Fitch Report The mise-en-scène of Tim Burton’s new film, Alice in Wonderland, has the visceral pulse of a byzantine nightmare; ornate, cryptic and so darkly detailed it could only have sprung forth from the mind of a true creative genius. Circuitous paths spun by […]
The Preservation Diaries By Susan Kathryn Hefti Special to The Clyde Fitch Report The mise-en-scène of Tim Burton’s new film, Alice in Wonderland, has the visceral pulse of a byzantine nightmare; ornate, cryptic and so darkly detailed it could only have sprung forth from the mind of a true creative genius. Circuitous paths spun by […]
How can the subways be a source of water? How can a fountain cool an entire lobby? Where is an Alexander Calder work hidden in our midst? Join us Wednesday March 10th, to learn these answers and more as we journey into the fascinating world of New York City’s green architecture, public art and sustainable public space! Green New […]
The Governor’s budget cuts to the Office of Parks would mean the closing of up to 25 historic sites across the state. Many of them are important to our national history as well as to New York’s rich cultural heritage. Once closed, this connection to our past could be gone forever. “New York is really […]
