The release of Vision 2020, New York City’s Comprehensive Waterfront Plan, in March highlighted the importance of the waterfront to the future sustainability of our city. For the 4th year in a row, the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance (MWA) is organizing City of Water Day, which will highlight the diversity of waterfront uses in New York. [...]
Sitting outside in the sizzling heat during my lunch break, I often imagine myself taking a dip in the pool to cool off. But, I run into a problem. None of the eleven ‘intermediate’ classification pools, aka your normal ones, are anywhere near me. However, for future hot interns – or anyone who wants to [...]
Or is it Brighton Beach? It depends on who you ask. What to do with the 9 acre park that is the official merging place of Brighton Beach and Coney Island? Residents in the neighborhood claim that the space–Asser Levy Park–is actually in Brighton Beach only and many of them are the primary opposition to [...]
In 1609, New York’s future waterfront was an arcadian shore of forests, wetlands, beaches, and sand bars, according to Eric Sanderson’s book Mannahatta. That landscape is lost forever, but visions of a post-industrial, neo-natural waterfront are longstanding. In 1944, futurists Paul and Percival Goodman proposed that Manhattan “open out toward the water,” lining its gritty [...]
Today’s entry is written not by me, but by the Director of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, Dr. Bill Solecki. This is hopefully the first of many entries by him that provide over views, thoughts, and reflections on what sustainable cities are, where they are going, and how we begin to measure their success. [...]
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