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Renderings revealed for Manhattan’s first public ‘beach’
Credit: James Corner Field Operations, courtesy of the Hudson River Park Trust The Hudson River Park Trust unveiled on Wednesday a preliminary concept for its plan to bring a public beach to...
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Ahead of city demo plans, petition launches to save Williamsburg’s Bayside...
Photo by James and Karla Murray exclusively for 6sqft. For the past four years, a team of designers and environmentalists led by co-founders Karen Zabarsky and Stacey Anderson has been rallying to...
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Did you know the country’s only floating pool is in the Bronx?
Photo by Danny Avila for NYC Parks Although it’s technically safe, you may not want to swim in the East River. Swimming on the East River, however, is an entirely different story. The Floating Pool...
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Demolition of debated vacant oil tanks in Williamsburg begins
Photo by James and Karla Murray exclusively for 6sqft Ten decommissioned tanks located along the Williamsburg waterfront will get demolished by the city this week, quashing plans from organizers to...
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Brooklyn Grange opens NYC’s largest rooftop farm in Sunset Park
Brooklyn Grange Sunset Park, courtesy of Brooklyn Grange Brooklyn Grange has opened its third rooftop farm at the Liberty View building along the Sunset Park waterfront. The new facility is the largest...
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Upper West Side group wants a stretch of Broadway to go car-free
Photo by 6sqft It’s been 10 years since Times Square went car-free along Broadway, with pedestrian plazas at Herald Square, Madison Square, Union Square North, Grand Army Plaza, and many more soon...
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Completed report announced following East Side Coastal Resiliency Project...
Preliminary design of Corlears shared use path; via DDC. Borough President Gale A. Brewer and Council Member Carlina Rivera announced Thursday the completed report by independent consulting firm...
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Second round of Transit Tech Lab accelerator launches with emphasis on...
Photo by Shinya Suzuki on Flickr cc The MTA and the Partnership for New York City have announced the second round of the Transit Tech Lab accelerator program that launched earlier this year. The...
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Get a new look at Hudson River Park’s Pier 97 after $38M revamp
Images: !melk/Hudson River Park Trust Hudson River Park’s northernmost pier is being transformed from a concrete strip to nearly two acres of green space with an esplanade and other amenities, Curbed...
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East Midtown Greenway, $100M link in a connected Manhattan waterfront loop,...
Rendering courtesy of Stantec The creation of the East Midtown Greenway (EMG), a 1.5-acre public space stretching from East 53rd to 61st Streets along the waterfront, got underway Friday. The project,...
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Work starts on transforming Hudson Street to a ‘grand allée’ with wide...
Courtesy of Matthews Nielsen Landscape Architecture, P.C. with attribution to W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, LLC In May, the city announced plans to make Hudson Street between Canal and...
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Massive Bjarke Ingels-designed apartment towers and public beach planned for...
All renderings © James Corner Field Operations and BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, courtesy of Two Trees Management Two new mixed-use towers with 1,000 units of housing and six acres of public space have been...
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With a $300M proposal, the Erie Canal could become a reinvented upstate...
Renderings courtesy of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office This is what a renewed Erie Canal could look like in the years to come. Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed a $300 million proposal on Monday to revamp the...
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See the proposed revamp for Rockefeller Center
Renderings by Gabellini Sheppard Associates courtesy Tishman Speyer; via NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission Tishman Speyer proposed a plan to revamp certain aspects of Rockefeller Center during a...
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Hudson Yards shares rendering of public open space to dispel reports of...
Rendering courtesy of Related Companies “There has never been a wall along the High Line and there will never be a wall,” Hudson Yards emphasized on Twitter today in response to reports that a 700-foot...
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The Lowline goes into ‘dormancy’ as funds dry up
Lowline Lab via 6sqft Ambitious plans to transform the abandoned Williamsburg Bridge Trolley Terminal on the Lower East Side into the world’s first underground park are no longer viable due to waning...
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Renderings released for massive Sunnyside Yard project that will bring 12,000...
All renderings by the Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) According to the master plan for the 180-acre Sunnyside Yard development in Queens, the former storage and maintenance hub for...
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Brooklyn Bridge Park’s rebuilt Squibb Bridge will reopen on May 4
Photos © Jamie Warren, Brooklyn Bridge Park After closing for good nearly two years ago, a new Squibb Bridge will open at Brooklyn Bridge Park on May 4 at 9am, as was first reported by Curbed. The...
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Here’s what a car-free, pedestrian-friendly NYC could look like
If parking was removed and private cars banned on West 45th Street; courtesy of PAU In a city that currently has the most streets closed to cars in the country, with plans in store to add more...
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This sidewalk ‘front porch’ was designed to help students return to school in...
Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools/SITU/WXY The list of anxieties surrounding a return to school for students and their parents is seemingly endless, but the architects at SITU and WXY have designed...
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