Civic Talk: Battles over Development
This seems to be a very interesting panel.
THURSDAY • JULY 17 • 6:30 PM
Civic Talk: Battles over Development
at the Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York Civic President Henry J. Stern leads a roundtable discussion about epic development battles, including memorable fights over the Westway proposal of the 1970s and the Huntington Hartford Museum at Columbus Circle, which was designed by renowned modernist architect Edward Durrell Stone and is now being transformed into the Museum of Art and Design. The panel will include Adrian Benepe, Commissioner, New York City Department of Parks & Recreation; Holly Hotchner, Director of the Museum of Art and Design; Alexander Garvin, city planner and President & CEO, Alex Garvin Associates; and Albert K. Butzel, attorney and former President of Friends of Hudson River Park.