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Arts for Transit: A Conversation with Sandra Bloodworth
New Yorkers like to grumble about the MTA. Weekend changes, delays, rising fares, service cuts, subway rats — all are real concerns that should be addressed to keep our public transit system efficient,...
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The Omnibus Roundup – Prefab Yards, Megapolitan America, MTA Blitzes,...
PREFAB YARDS SHoP Architects and developer Bruce C. Ratner this week unveiled designs for the first Atlantic Yards tower, a 32-story, 350-unit building that will be the world’s tallest prefabricated...
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The Omnibus Roundup — Flooded Subways, Before I Die, Legacy of Moses, SEED...
Manhattan Flood Zones Under 4-Foot Sea Level Rise | LDEO & Civil Engineering, Columbia University | via transportationnation.org FLOODED SUBWAYS When Hurricane Irene was headed towards New York...
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The Omnibus Roundup – Lighting as Placemaking, MTA funding, Green Zoning,...
Might an illuminated Lower Manhattan resemble this colorfully lit Berlin cityscape? | Photo: Flickr user Dion Hinchliffe PLACEMAKING THROUGH LIGHTING The City’s plan to make Lower Manhattan more...
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The Omnibus Roundup – Manhattan Memorious, Shellshocked, Transhistoria, City...
MANHATTAN MEMORIOUS Back in 2009, Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder took us on a tour of the unbuilt city through their smartphone app of speculative proposals for New York, the Museum of the Phantom City....
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Lessons in Subway Archaeology
These days, arguments for the expansion of public transit options in New York City cite increased demand in growing areas, congestion on certain lines, the need for additional capacity. But in the...
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Roundup — July 4th Edition
Photo by look@j The fireworks are returning to the East River and, serious concerns over the advisability of the investments required and individual opposition to certain yellow cards notwithstanding,...
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A Transit Agency for the Future
Ask David Bragdon how he first became interested in transportation, and he’ll reply that he “always loved big things that move,” starting with the buses going down 2nd Avenue when he was growing up. At...
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High Summer Roundup
Sand castle on Coney Island | Photo by Betty Tsang It’s high summer, the season of power outages due to overwhelmed electrical grids — and time for a short UO hiatus while we recover from last week’s...
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Under-Development: Reclaiming 700 Miles of Public Space
Much ink has been spilled on creative strategies for repurposing disused infrastructure in cities around the world, from the High Line, New York’s poster child for urban reclamation, to its Parisian...
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The 7th Annual Thanksgiving Roundup
On Staten Island, a flock of 90-some turkeys — the inspiration for reimagining the grounds of the South Beach Psychiatric Center as a Turkey National Park — is in limbo as an upstate sanctuary...
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An Easy Way to Give East New York a New Subway Stop
Workers replace panels of track near New Lots Avenue on the 3 train, 2012 | Photo courtesy of MTA / Leonard Wiggins Imagine there were the possibility for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to...
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The Tension and the Glory of Subway Poetry
Long before the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was filling ad space with verse, Lawrence Ferlinghetti described the lasting impression of a subway poetry encounter. “Reading Yeats, I do not...
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Lessons in Subway Archaeology
These days, arguments for the expansion of public transit options in New York City cite increased demand in growing areas, congestion on certain lines, the need for additional capacity. But in the...
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Roundup — July 4th Edition
Photo by look@j The fireworks are returning to the East River and, serious concerns over the advisability of the investments required and individual opposition to certain yellow cards notwithstanding,...
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A Transit Agency for the Future
Ask David Bragdon how he first became interested in transportation, and he’ll reply that he “always loved big things that move,” starting with the buses going down 2nd Avenue when he was growing up. At...
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High Summer Roundup
Sand castle on Coney Island | Photo by Betty Tsang It’s high summer, the season of power outages due to overwhelmed electrical grids — and time for a short UO hiatus while we recover from last week’s...
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Under-Development: Reclaiming 700 Miles of Public Space
Much ink has been spilled on creative strategies for repurposing disused infrastructure in cities around the world, from the High Line, New York’s poster child for urban reclamation, to its Parisian...
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The 7th Annual Thanksgiving Roundup
On Staten Island, a flock of 90-some turkeys — the inspiration for reimagining the grounds of the South Beach Psychiatric Center as a Turkey National Park — is in limbo as an upstate sanctuary...
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An Easy Way to Give East New York a New Subway Stop
Workers replace panels of track near New Lots Avenue on the 3 train, 2012 | Photo courtesy of MTA / Leonard Wiggins Imagine there were the possibility for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to...
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