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Discovering a floating park at the High Line
The High Line’s newest design project called the Spur. Chelsea residents, make way for the High Line’s newest addition: a floating park at the Spur. Last week, the High Line unleashed the latest of...
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Reimagining the city’s edge
Brooklyn Bridge Park (image via Wikicommons) For most of New York’s existence, the city’s waterfront was a worksite; New York was long the busiest commercial port in the United States, and Manhattan,...
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Your personal free summer concert menu
Because what could be better than an outdoor summer concert? A free one, of course. Save money, soak up vitamin D, spend time with friends, enjoy music…it’s multitasking at its best. Here’s a list of...
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The world slackline championship comes to Central Park
Toru “Gappai” Osugi from Japan, mid-flip “This is the first time this has happened in the world, ever,” said one of the announcers at the World Slackline Federation World Championships. New York had...
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LES gets a Big U: architecture + culture = resilience
On July 9, in the second year after Hurricane Sandy made landfall, Community Board 3 of the Lower East Side heard presentations about plans to protect their community from future storms and rising sea...
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Secrets of Brooklyn Bridge Park
If twenty years ago you invited a New Yorker to have a picnic in the industrial shipping yards below the Brooklyn Bridge, between the roaring Brooklyn Queens Expressway and the East River, they might...
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Insouciant coyotes take Manhattan
This morning, an adventurous coyote led police on a futile chase through Riverside Park on the Upper West Side, the second to be seen in Manhattan in April, and the sixth NYC coyote sighting of 2015,...
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Why I love the QueensWay
Jonah Garnick interned for the Trust for Public Land, and while there, fell in love with an idea for NYC. “I (Heart) The QueensWay.” During my internship for the Trust for Public Land (TPL), I...
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“Keep it slow:” touring the High Line
“Keep it simple. Keep it slow. Keep it quiet. Keep it wild,” reads the sign in big block letters. These four rules make up the design mantra of the High Line Park, which opened in 2009 in Manhattan’s...
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The future of fashion walks the new High Bridge
Topmost image: designs by Tom Sohung. Above, designs by Martin Polanco. Photos throughout: Kuntian Yu A glimpse of the High Bridge suggests it was fated to become a fashion runway one day. The historic...
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