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NYC to resume work on over 100 delayed parks projects this spring
All images courtesy of Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office on Flickr Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday announced over 100 park projects halted due to the pandemic will resume work this spring. The...
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NYC celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted’s bicentennial birthday with a month of...
All images courtesy of Daniel Avila / NYC Parks Throughout April, the city’s parks will celebrate the 200th birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect whose visionary work on Central...
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NYC finally launches containerized trash bin pilot
Image courtesy of Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office on Flickr Mayor Eric Adams and Department of Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Wednesday unveiled a new containerized waste bin that...
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The history behind NYC’s water towers
Photo of water towers on East 57th Street via Wikimedia For over 100 years, water towers have been a seamless part of New York City’s skyline. So seamless, in fact, they often go unnoticed, usually...
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10 years after Superstorm Sandy: rebuilding, redesigning and rethinking New...
Photo credit: Chris Ford via Flickr A decade ago, an Atlantic hurricane-turned-superstorm named Sandy caught ready-for-anything New York City completely off guard as it raged up the East Coast from the...
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Plan to resurrect NYC’s iconic Brooklyn Banks skate park moves forward
The Brooklyn Banks in 2009. Photo credit: Rasmus Zwickson via Flickr Tony Hawk’s The Skatepark Project announced plans Thursday to bring the much-loved Brooklyn Banks skate park back to life in a...
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Army Corps of Engineers releases first renderings of NYC sea walls for...
This rendering shows a 20-foot-tall proposed floodwall along the Hudson River at Huron Street in the West Village. Image: Army Corps of Engineers. Late last year, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...
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NYC’s redesign of Broadway blocks into pedestrian-friendly stretch begins
Rendering of Greeley Square after capital construction work is completed; Courtesy of “New” New York Panel New York City will begin its transformation of an iconic stretch of Broadway into a...
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A section of NYC skateboarding ‘mecca’ Brooklyn Banks reopens in Chinatown
Public space under the Brooklyn Bridge. Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Images courtesy of Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office Parts of a long-neglected public space under the Brooklyn Bridge once known as the...
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NYC announces major public space and transit improvements for Downtown Brooklyn
Image courtesy of Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office on Flickr New York City is investing over $40 million in street safety improvements and new public spaces in Downtown Brooklyn. On Thursday...
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